Trinity Church The Only Church in the Antarctic

Located on King George Island, near Russian Bellingshausen Station in Antarctica, is a small Russian Orthodox Church known as the Trinity church. It is the southernmost Orthodox Church in the world.

During the 1990s, a charity named Temple for Antarctica had an ambitious project to establish a permanent church or even a monastery on Antarctica. The proposal for this project was approved by Patriarch Alexius II of Moscow, and received donations from across Russia.
They held a competition for the project that was won by architects from Barnaul P.I. Anisifirov, S.G. Rybak and A... From: Trinity Church the Only Church in the Antarctica