Church of the Transfiguration in Chukotka's capital Anadyr is one of the iconic sights of the city. The Church is housed in the building of the Orthodox chapel, which until the 1920s was owned by Anadyr Nikolo-Ensure the parish of the village of Markovo.

The history of the parish began with the construction in 1862 in Markovo temple in honor of St. Nicholas. In the same village lived constantly ecclesiastical parish clergy: rector of the Church of Mitrofan Schipitsyn and the Psalmist F. Vereshchagin. Parish books in storage in the urban County, signed by the priest A. Shipitsyn and Psalm readers by Fedot and John Speciname.

In the Soviet years the chapel repeatedly reinforced and rebuilt. It has placed the business premises, shop and club. In the 1990s, highly dilapidated building was given to the group of believers. The first priests who served here in modern times, became a monk Pitirim and priest S. Porunov.

After the founding in 2000 of the Anadyrsky and Chukchi diocese of the Transfiguration Church received the status of Cathedral. On the occasion of the establishment in the city in 2004, the monument to Nicholas in the Church of the Transfiguration eight bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church officiated. In 2005 Anadyr temple was visited by the future Patriarch, Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad. In 2008, the temple was closed, the services here are not committed.

In 2012 there was talk about the restoration of a historic building. In the same year, thanks to financial support from local businesses the inside of the Church was completely renovated and the Church was reopened to the faithful.