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St. Trinity Church, Bellinsgausen

Published: 14 November, 2009, 09:09
Edited: 09 December, 2009, 04:46

Click to enlarge Our church is five years old. It’s all Siberian cedar and larch, built in some Altai locality. It was taken to pieces and the logs were delivered by sea to this station. It took two months to reassemble it by hand. Some say its log construction is likely to grow iron-strong with the years. There are steel chains inside that anchor the church against the savage Antarctic...

Comments (4):

NGW, November 14, 2009, 18:32 quote
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What a lovely church! I am VERY glad to see Orthodox Christianity represented in the Antarctic.
christopher, November 23, 2009, 06:01 quote
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this report is so interesting, it has 'made my day' in fact, thank you for such an excellent and heartwarming article! well done!
Irina, November 25, 2009, 17:31 quote
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My father Nicolai Zherebtsov was on board the ship "Ob" in 1958 and was in Antarctica. Please, recall his name in the church. He died in 1992. God bless you.
Olga Stefanova, December 09, 2009, 01:04 quote
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Irina, I did it, as you asked. Thanks all for kind words!
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