Christ the King Church, Nuuk limited and most Christianity was practiced on the island under the umbrella of Danish Lutheran denominations. Today most of the congregation is made up of foreigners and a small group of locals. In 1980 the Sisters of Jesus established a small convent. The Sunday masses are on 17:00 (5:00 pm) and are followed by a dinner. Christ the King Church, Nuuk Christ the King Church () is the Roman Catholic church in the city of Nuuk, the capital of Greenland. It is the only functional Catholic church in Greenland. The church follows the Roman or Latin rite and belongs to
Nuuk Airport flying boat, with the aircraft using the waterways of the Nuuk Port as a landing site. In 1962 a PBY Catalina crashed near the port, killing 15 people on board. The tragedy was one of the factors leading to the decision to invest in a helicopter fleet. The Sikorsky S-61N machines—still in use in 2010—proved to be a more reliable mode of transport for the city, providing exclusive service for the Nuuk city for more than a decade—from the purchase date in 1965 until the late 1970s. Even in the later era of the fixed-wing, turboprop plane domination, the S-61N