The Adventist Church of Finland ( fi, Suomen adventtikirkko) is a Protestant

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religious community that began operating in Finland in 1892. In 2017, it had about 4,700 members, and more than 60 parishes. Adventism arrived in Finland from the United States via

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in the early 1890s. Adventism initially gained a foothold among the Swedish-speaking population. The movement became an association in 1920, when the Finnish Seventh-day Adventist Philanthropists' Association ( fi, Suomen Seitsemännen Päivän Adventistien Filantrooppienn yhdistys) was registered. The strongest area of the movement in the 1920s was Turku and

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with their surroundings; the best known of these is the , also known as the Betel Church. Swedish-speaking Adventists formed their own organization in the late 1920s.Eino Murtorinne: ''Kristinuskon historia 2000'', chapter 1923, p. 181. Weilin+Göös, Porvoo, 2000. . (in Finnish)

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