The first LDS meetinghouse constructed in Poland since pre-World War II days was dedicated Saturday in Warsaw as "a refuge of peace for troubled souls and a haven of hope for those who hunger and thirst after righteousness."
Elder Russell M. Nelson, of the LDS Church's Council of the Twelve, dedicated the Warsaw branch meetinghouse in a ceremony attended by more than 400 people including representatives of Warsaw's city government and Polish government officials.Elder Nelson was in Warsaw accompanying the Mormon Tabernacle Choir on an eight-country tour of Europe. Elder Hans B. Ringger of the Quorums of the Seventy and president of the LDS Church's Europe area, offered brief remarks at the dedicatory ceremony. Also attending was Elder Dennis B. Neuenschwander, recently sustained as a new member of the Quorums of the Seventy.
In the prayer, Elder Nelson invoked a blessing "upon the present and future leaders of this great nation who have known so much of adversity." He asked that Poland's leaders be blessed with "thy holy light, that they may lead in righteousness and preserve the privilege of individual freedom and liberty."