The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Sweden


, headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, has been in Sweden since 1850.

History

The Book of Mormon was translated into Swedish in 1878. As with many other Scandinavian converts, Swedish LDS were encouraged to emigrated to the US and build up "Zion" there; these included the ancestors of recent church president Thomas S. Monson, whose grandfather Nels Monson 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 built within the country itself.
As of 2019 the LDS Church counts its number of members in Sweden to be just above 9,716, divided into 4 regional units with a total of 40 congregations. This is 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.

The Swedish Rescue

Around 2010, a number of Swedish members of the LDS Church, including former Area Authority Hans Mattsson, began to doubt the veracity of the church. General Authority Marlin K. Jensen 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.

Missions