The presentation examines the experiences of Russian-speaking immigrants regarding the role of religion, religiosity and secularity when they face the death of the close relative in Finland. Facing death is a strongly affective experience in which people are at their most sensitive and emotional condition. In death, the importance of community and relationships becomes visible. Death also requires practical and ritual care, where the need for so-called death experts is remarkable. In Finland, in accordance with the Lutheran ethos, church officials act as death experts. Death experts and the community can support a person with an immigrant background. While church workers act as bureaucrats of death, churches and congregations also create communities and a sense of community around them. In our ethnographic study, we examine the importance of death experts and communities in the context of death among Russian-speaking immigrants. We ask how the attitude towards religion or secularity affect Russian-speaking immigrants’ encounters and experiences of the society permeated by the Finnish Lutheran ethos in connection with the death of a loved one.