Holy Trinity Church ( Russian : Церковь Святой Троицы ) is a small Russian Orthodox church on King George Island near Bellingshausen Station , a Russian research station in Antarctica. It is one of the eight churches on Antarctica . It is the southernmost Eastern Orthodox church in the world (cf. St. Ivan Rilski Chapel ).
18-2003: (Redirected from Trinitarian Church ) Trinity Church may refer to: Antarctica [ edit ] Trinity Church (Antarctica) Australia [ edit ] Trinity Church Adelaide , South Australia Trinity Church, Perth , Western Australia Bulgaria [ edit ] Trinity Church, Bansko Canada [ edit ] Little Trinity Anglican Church Trinity Anglican Church (Cambridge, Ontario) Trinity Anglican Church (Ottawa) Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church (Toronto) Trinity-St. Paul's United Church Trinity-St. Stephen's United Church Trinity United Church (Peterborough, Ontario) China [ edit ] Trinity Church, Changsha Trinity Church, Langzhong Denmark [ edit ] Trinitatis Church (Trinity Church), Copenhagen Trinity Church, Esbjerg Finland [ edit ] Holy Trinity Church, Vaasa France [ edit ] Abbey of Sainte-Trinité, Caen Sainte-Trinité, Paris Georgia [ edit ] Gergeti Trinity Church Germany [ edit ] Propsteikirche St. Trinitatis, Leipzig Luxembourg [ edit ] Trinity Church, Luxembourg Norway [ edit ] Trinity Church (Arendal) ( Trefoldighetskirken ) Trinity Church (Oslo) ( Trefoldighetskirken ) Peru [ edit ] Trinitarian Church of Lima ( Iglesia de las Trinitarias ) Russia [ edit ] Trinity Church in Orekhovo-Borisovo , Moscow Trinity Church (Novocherkassk) , Rostov Oblast Slovakia [ edit ] Trinitarian Church of Bratislava (Trinity Church) Sweden [ edit ] Trinity Church, Halmstad ( Trefaldighetskyrkan ) Trinity Church (Karlskrona) ( Trefaldighetskyrkan ) Trinity Church, Kristianstad Ukraine [ edit ] Gate Church of
36-414: A competition for the project that was won by architects from Barnaul P.I. Anisifirov, S.G. Rybak and A.B. Schmidt. The church is a 15m-high wooden structure built in traditional Russian style. It can accommodate up to 30 worshippers. The structure was built out of Siberian Pine by Altay carpenters led by K.V. Khromov, then dismantled, taken by truck to Kaliningrad and shipped to King George Island by
54-511: A svätého Felixa z Valois ; incorrectly Holy Trinity Church ( Kostol Najsvätejšej Trojice )), is a Baroque -style church in Bratislava 's Old Town borough, on the Župné námestie square. The church was built on the site of the older Church of St. Michael, which was demolished in 1529, along with the settlement of St. Michael, during the Ottoman wars , along with other suburbs, so as to see better
72-457: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Church building disambiguation pages Trinity Church (Antarctica) The ambitious project to establish a permanent church or monastery on Antarctica first materialized during the 1990s. A charity named "Temple for Antarctica" (Храм — Антарктиде) was approved by Patriarch Alexius II and received donations from across Russia. They organized
90-512: Is staffed year-round by one or two Orthodox priests, who are hieromonks of Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra volunteering for the Antarctic assignment. Similarly to the personnel of most year-round Antarctic stations, the priests are rotated annually by the Lavra; however, several of them, including Father Kallistrat, chose to come back to King George Island for another one-year tour of duty after a year or two on
108-727: The Count Zichy . This altar has a copy of the Regensburg painting of the Madonna. The main portal is richly decorated in Rococo style, celebrating the Holy Trinity. At the time of the consecration of the church, a Trinitarian monastery was built on the site of a nearby cemetery. However, the Trinitarian Order was closed by Joseph II in 1782 and the comitatus (county) office took possession of
126-636: The Holy Trinity v. United States , a decision of the Supreme Court of the United States Church of the Life-Giving Trinity (disambiguation) Dreifaltigkeitskirche (disambiguation) Holy Trinity Church (disambiguation) Trinity Church and Rectory (disambiguation) Trinity Episcopal Church (disambiguation) Trinity Methodist Church (disambiguation) Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church (disambiguation) Topics referred to by
144-494: The Russian supply ship Academician Vavilov . It was assembled on high ground near the seashore by the staff of Bellingshausen Station, under the general supervision of the 30-year-old Father Kallistrat (Romanenko), who was to become the church's first priest. Kallistrat, a hieromonk of Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra , had previously served at the Lavra's skete on Anzer Island in the subarctic Solovki Archipelago. The iconostasis of
162-458: The Slovak Republic ) were housed in the building until the seat was moved into a new parliamentary building next to Bratislava Castle . Some of the notable political events that took place here included Tiso's government declaration of independent Slovakia on 14 March 1939 and the passing of the independence declaration on 17 July 1992. From 2003 to 2009, the church was the cathedral of
180-1902: The Trinity (Pechersk Lavra) , Kyiv United Kingdom [ edit ] Trinity Church, Barrow-in-Furness , Cumbria Trinity Church (Brentwood) , Essex Trinity Cheltenham Trinity with Palm Grove Church, Claughton , Birkenhead, Merseyside Trinity College Kirk , now dismantled Royal Collegiate Church in Edinburgh Trinity Church, Wrexham United States [ edit ] Trinity Church (Nevada City) , California Trinity Church (Oakland, California) Trinity Church (Brooklyn, Connecticut) Trinity Church (Milton, Connecticut) Trinity Church (Thomaston, Connecticut) Trinity Church (Elkridge, Maryland) Trinity Church (Boston) , Massachusetts Trinity Baptist Church (Concord, New Hampshire) Trinity Church (Cornish, New Hampshire) Trinity Church (Holderness, New Hampshire) Trinity Church (Asbury Park, New Jersey) Trinity Church (Swedesboro, New Jersey) Trinity Methodist Church (Beacon, New York) Trinity Church (Constantia, New York) Trinity Church (Elmira, New York) Trinity Chapel Complex , Manhattan Trinity Church (Manhattan) Trinity Church Complex (Roslyn, New York) Trinity Church (Warsaw, New York) Trinity Methodist Church (Elizabethtown, North Carolina) Trinity Episcopal Church (Scotland Neck, North Carolina) Nast Trinity United Methodist Church , Cincinnati, Ohio Old Trinity Church , Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Trinity Church (Newport, Rhode Island) Trinity Church (Pawtucket, Rhode Island) Trinity Church (Edisto Island, South Carolina) Trinity Church (Mason, Tennessee) Trinity Episcopal Church (Houston) , Texas Trinity Church (Beaverdam, Virginia) See also [ edit ] Church of
198-520: The attacking Turks. The Trinitarian Order started construction of the church in 1717 and it was sanctified in 1727, although work in the interior continued into the first half of the 18th century. The design is thought to be copied from the St. Peter's Church in Vienna . The arch is dominated by a cupola with trompe-l'œil fresco from Italian Baroque painter Antonio Galli Bibiena . The massive main altar of
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#1732876586020216-674: The benefit of Latin American visitors, some church services are conducted in Spanish. On occasion, the priest baptizes new adherents of Christianity in the Southern Ocean . On 29 January 2007, the priest of the church celebrated the first church wedding in Antarctica. The husband, Eduardo Aliaga Ilabaca, is a staff member of a Chilean Antarctic base, who had joined the Orthodox Church soon after
234-563: The building. However, it did not suit its needs and was almost wholly demolished; the "County House/Building" (Slovak: Župný dom , Hungarian: Vármegyeháza ) was built in 1844 in its place and became the administrative seat of the Pressburg county . Concerts by various composers, for example by Franz Liszt or Johannes Brahms , took place in the Great Hall of the building. From 1939 to 1994 Slovak National Councils (since 1992 National Council of
252-516: The church was created by Palekh painters. The church bells were commissioned by the descendants of Sergey Muravyov-Apostol . The church was consecrated on February 15, 2004, by Theognost ( Феогност ), the Bishop of Sergiyev Posad and the Namestnik ( abbot ) of Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra , who visited Antarctica for this occasion, along with a number of other clerics, pilgrims, and sponsors. The church
270-507: The church was presumably built by A. G. Bussi. Its main work of art is an altarpiece depicting St. John of Matha and St. Felix of Valois ransoming prisoners from Turkish capture. Statues of St. Agnes and St. Catherine situated at the rear of the main altar are attributed to the Bavarian sculptor Johann Baptist Straub . The rear altar of the Virgin Mary was built in 1736 on the order of
288-409: The mainland. Among the priests' tasks is praying for the souls of the 64 Russian people who have died in Antarctic expeditions and serving the spiritual needs of the staff of Bellingshausen Station and other nearby stations. Besides Russian polar researchers, the church is often visited by their colleagues from the nearby Chilean, Polish, Korean, and other research stations, as well as by tourists. For
306-668: The opening of the Antarctic temple; his wife, Angelina Zhuldybina, is Russian. In 2016 Patriarch Kirill visited the church. Priests also assist with the general maintenance of the Bellingshausen station. 62°11′47″S 58°57′35.3″W / 62.19639°S 58.959806°W / -62.19639; -58.959806 Trinitarian Church of Bratislava The Trinitarian Church or Trinity Church , full name Church of Saint John of Matha and Saint Felix of Valois ( Slovak : Kostol trinitárov , Trinitársky kostol or Trojičný kostol or Kostol svätého Jána z Mathy
324-425: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Trinity Church . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Trinity_Church&oldid=1239944169 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
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