Wikipedia's article on the Bern Switzerland Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, community-edited. Reliable for its dedication on 11 September 1955 by church president David O. McKay, described in the article's own words as the church's first temple in Europe and its second built outside North America, after the Laie Hawaii Temple already dedicated in 1919. Also reliable for the temple pioneering the endowment presented on film dubbed into the languages of the several European countries it served, a solution every later temple went on to adopt in place of a live presentation. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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AuthorWikipedia contributors
PublisherWikipedia
Publication Year2026
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bern_Switzerland_Temple
Source Typereference
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Reliability Tier3
Community-edited reference page, tier 3, on a dated dedication with a named officiant and no controversy attached to the date or the church's own "first in Europe" description. NotesUsed for the 1955 dedication of the church's first temple in Europe, the tradition's earliest documented institutional arrival on the European continent.
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This source names Americas directly: "Wikipedia's article on the Bern Switzerland Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, community-edited."
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This source names Europe directly: "words as the church's first temple in Europe and its second built outside North America, after the Laie Hawaii Temple already dedicated in 1919."
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This source names Hawaii directly: "outside North America, after the Laie Hawaii Temple already dedicated in 1919."
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This source names Switzerland directly: "Wikipedia's article on the Bern Switzerland Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, community-edited."
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