Located east of Augustana College at the corner of West 28th Street and South Summit Avenue, we serve Orthodox Christians in Sioux Falls, South Dakota and the surrounding area.

The Orthodox Church is not only
for one nation, one civilization,
one continent. It is like God Himself,
for all and for every place.
Patriarch Ignatius IV of Antioch

Visitors are always welcome at Transfiguration Orthodox Church! Please visit us in person as well as on the web.

You were transfigured upon the mountain O Christ our God, showing to Your disciples Your glory as much as they could bear. Do also in us, sinners though we be, shine Your everlasting Light. At the intercessions of the Theotokos, O Giver of Light, glory to You.
Apolytikion (Festal Hymn) of the Transfiguration of our Lord Jesus Christ 

What does "transfiguration" mean?

Christ was transfigured, not by the addition of something He was not, nor by a transformation into something He was not, but by the manifestation to His disciples of what He really was.

He opened their eyes so that instead of being blind they could see. While He Himself remained the same, they could now see Him as other than He had appeared to them formerly. For He is ‘the true light’ (Jn 1:9), the beauty of divine glory, and He shone forth like the sun—though this image is imperfect, since what is uncreated cannot be imaged in creation without some diminution.

St. Gregory Palamas,
Archbishop of Thessaloniki