The Baháʼí Faith in Sweden began after coverage in the 19th century[1] followed by several Swede-Americans who had met ʻAbdu'l-Bahá in the United States around 1912 and pioneered or visited the country starting in 1920.
Ragna Linné was a nineteenth and twentieth century classical soprano born in Oslo during the period of Union between Sweden and Norway and of Swedish/Norwegian roots[6] who encountered the Baháʼí Faith after she moved to Chicago.
[10] It covers the history of the period of the Báb, through Baháʼu'lláh imprisonment and banishments, and ʻAbdu'l-Bahá's freedom and visit to Paris.
The seventh tablet was translated and presented by Mirza Ahmad Sohrab on April 4, 1919, and published in Star of the West magazine on December 12, 1919.
Show ye an effort and after this war spread ye the synopsis of the divine teachings in the British Isles, France, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Russia, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Holland, Portugal, Rumania, Serbia, Montenegro, Bulgaria, Greece, Andorra, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Monaco, San Marino, Balearic Isles, Corsica, Sardinia, Sicily, Crete, Malta, Iceland, Faroe Islands, Shetland Islands, Hebrides and Orkney Islands.
[1] In 1923, Louise Eriksson visited August Rudd and teacher Anna Elisabeth Gustavsson, perhaps the first convert in Sweden circa 1920–22, and brought them a copy of Baháʼu'lláh and the New Era by John Esslemont.
[10] Helsingborgs Dagblad covered Martha Root's visit to Sweden where she participated in an Esperanto congress in Stockholm.
[1] In 1929 Anna Rudd left Östervallskog and moved to Malmköping and then to Göteborg, where she married Baháʼí Bernard Arvid Palmgren.
Following World War II, Shoghi Effendi, then head of the religion, oversaw the creation of the European Teaching committee which supervised pioneers to Europe.
[13] The third inter-continental teachings conference was held in Stockholm 21–26 July 1953 at which a number of talks were given for the general public as well as the Baháʼís[14] including a long letter from Shoghi Effendi[15] which outlined various goals for the community across Europe.
As the religion spread across Scandinavia it reached the point where a regional National Spiritual Assembly for Norway, Finland, Sweden and Denmark was established in 1957.
[5] In November 2009 the Swedish paper Västerbottens-Kuriren reported that 25 local non-profit Baháʼí organization had changed their organizational form to religious communions.