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As of January 1, 2011, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints reported 38,257 members in 14 stakes and 3 districts, 173 congregations (89 wards〔(LDS Meetinghouse Locator ).Nearby Congregations (Wards and Branches).〕 and 84 branches〔), three missions, and two temples in Germany. ==History== The first German to be converted to the LDS Church was an immigrant to the USA named Jakob Zundel in 1836. Though one British Mormon convert had briefly worked in Germany, the first official of the church to arrive in Germany was Orson Hyde on 27 June 1841 as part of his journey to Palestine. He was delayed in Frankfurt by a visa problem and began to learn German. When he returned to Germany on his trip back from Palestine, he spent 30 January to August 1842 in Regensburg and wrote "Ein Ruf aus der Wüste" ("A Cry out of the Wilderness") whilst he was there. It was published in Frankfurt and was the first LDS Church publication in the German language.〔 The first converts were baptized in Germany in 1851. Brigham Young sent Daniel Carn to establish the first German mission in 1852 which he did in Hamburg. Carn also oversaw the publication of a German language version of the Book of Mormon which was published in Hamburg 25 May 1852. He was eventually banished from Hamburg, then a sovereign state, due to his attempts to convert Germans to Mormonism but he continued to prostelyse Germans in the then Danish territory of Schleswig-Holstein.〔 Most early converts emigrated to the United States and, by 1854, the short-lived Hamburg branch was dissolved. Church involvement in Germany resumed in 1860, but was limited due to persecution which continued until World War I. After World War I, the government became more tolerant of religious freedom, and the church received substantial growth. In the first half of the 20th Century Germany had more converts to Mormonism than any other non-English speaking country. By 1925 there was 6,125 members in the German-Austrian Mission, and 5,305 members in the Swiss-German Mission. The first German LDS meeting house was built in 1929 in Selbongen, East Prussia (now Zełwągi in Poland). Under the Nazi Government of 1933 - 1945, no Mormon congregation was stopped from worshipping and few individual Mormons were persecuted (and only for transgressions that any German of the time would have been punished for). Following World War II, members of the church in Germany found themselves divided among two nations. Members continued to maintain contact with the church in the west. In the fall of 1961 three stakes were created in Berlin (Germany's first), Stuttgart and Hamburg. In 1982, the Freiberg German Democratic Republic Stake was created. On June 19, 1985, the Freiberg GDR Temple was dedicated. It is the only temple constructed in a communist bloc country. In 1987, the Frankfurt, West Germany Temple was dedicated.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Germany」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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