From the time The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was established in Poland in 1977 to when Poland was liberated from communist rule in the late 1980s, missionaries were not legally allowed to proselytize in the country.
In an effort to both abide by the law and continue to share the restored gospel, Church members established a Church “information bureau” in 1979. Missionaries were allowed to share the gospel with those who requested information or entered the private property.
Later, the building also served as a meetinghouse for Saints in Warsaw until a chapel was built in the city in 1991.
On Aug. 25 of this year, that information bureau had been renovated and was dedicated as an official Church visitors’ center, with Elder James W. McConkie III, General Authority Seventy and second counselor in the Church’s Europe Central Area presidency, presiding at the dedication. Invited guests from genealogical, humanitarian, and cultural organizations also attended the dedication.
In the dedicatory prayer, Poland Warsaw Mission President Gregory D. Roney dedicated the visitors’ center as a “place of gathering to invite all to come to know [God’s] beloved Son better in recognizing the history of the Church in this land.”
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