Location – Murmansk, descent between Chelyuskintsev Street and Geroev Severomortsev Avenue

It is difficult to imagine Murmansk, a port city, without a church that would be connected to the sea. One of the main Orthodox places in the capital of the Arctic is Spas-na-Vodakh (the throne of the Savior Not Made by Hands).

Spas-na-Vodakh was consecrated before City Day, on October 3, 2002. It became the third stone church in Murmansk after the St. Nicholas and Vladimir churches.

The Church of the Savior on the Waters is a classic single-apse church built in the style of old Russian churches. A bell tower was built nearby. The construction was not easy. Murmansk did not have its own church for a long time, although on the day the city was founded, a stone was laid in honor of the future Cathedral of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker. There is now a cross at this place near the S. M. Kirov Community Center, and the cathedral remains in the plans.

The church has many icons that fishermen, sailors and their loved ones can pray to. For example, Christ walking on the waters, the apostles in a boat, St. Tryphon of Pechenga and Varlaam of Keretsk - the protector of the Kola North and sailors, the faces of St. Andrew the First-Called and the righteous admiral Feodor Ushakov.

A distinctive feature of the house of God is the services with sign language translation for the deaf. There is also a Sunday school at the church.

Near the church, on a small site, there is a worship cross and a memorial plaque. Here, in August 2016, on the Transfiguration, Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Kirill, together with Metropolitan Simon of Murmansk and Monchegorsk and other clergy, held a prayer service and consecrated the construction site of the Transfiguration Cathedral.