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(LDS Church) ( sv, Jesu Kristi Kyrka av Sista Dagars Heliga), headquartered in

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, has been in Sweden since 1850.

History

Sunday School in The Christiana Norway ca 1902

The

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was translated into Swedish in 1878. As with many other Scandinavian converts, Swedish LDS were encouraged to emigrate to the US and build up "Zion" there; these included the ancestors of a previous church president,

Thomas S. Monson Thomas Spencer Monson (August 21, 1927 – January 2, 2018) was an American religious leader, author, and the 16th President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). As president, he was considered by adherents of the re ...

, whose grandfather, Nels Monson (born Torhamn), emigrated at the age of 16. This depleted local numbers for a number of decades, until in the late twentieth century, this policy was discontinued, and a

temple A temple (from the Latin ) is a building reserved for spiritual rituals and activities such as prayer and sacrifice. Religions which erect temples include Christianity (whose temples are typically called churches), Hinduism (whose temples ...

built within the country itself. As of 2021, the LDS Church counted its number of members in Sweden to be just above 9,528, divided into 5 regional units with a total of 40 congregations. This was an increase in membership from 2014, which was 9,463. The Church also maintains one temple in the country, the Stockholm Sweden Temple, in

Västerhaninge Västerhaninge () is a locality situated in Haninge Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden. It had 15,134 inhabitants in 2010. It is connected to Stockholm by commuter rail. Västerhaninge borders the large Hanveden forest to the north, the Jor ...

The Swedish Rescue

Around 2010, a number of Swedish members of the LDS Church, including former

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Hans Mattsson, began to doubt the veracity of the church. Marlin K. Jensen, a church general authority, and historian Richard E. Turley Jr. soon after conducted a fireside, an informal church meeting, at the Västerhaninge Chapel in Stockholm, Sweden, on November 28, 2010. The audio was surreptitiously recorded and sparked much discussion and interest in the blogosphere. Jesu Kristi Kyrkas medlemsantal i Sverige genom tiderna

Jesu Kristi Kyrkas medlemsantal i Sverige genom tiderna

Stakes

As of February 2023, the following stakes were located in Sweden:

Missions

* Sweden Stockholm

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: On June 15, 1905, the Swedish Mission was organized from the Scandinavian Mission, which was renamed the Danish-Norwegian Mission. When established, the mission covered Sweden, Finland, Russia and northern Germany, with Petter Matson as its

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.Potter , Damion
"Swedish Mission centennial celebrated"
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'', 15 July 2005. Retrieved on 23 March 2020. It has since been split among other missions, reducing the area of the mission to only Sweden.

Temples

References

External links

Official website
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