Suvi-seurat (summer-meeting) of Laestadians in Finland:
 

 http://www.is.fi/kotimaa/art-2000005275566.html 
http://www.is.fi/kotimaa/art-2000005275566.html

 

 Wiki:
 

 Laestadianism is a conservative Lutheran 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutheranism revival movement started in Lapland 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lapland_(region) in the middle of the 19th 
century. Named after Swedish state church 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_Sweden administrator and temperance 
movement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperance_movementleader Lars Levi 
Laestadius https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lars_Levi_Laestadius, it is strongly 
marked by both pietistic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pietistic and Moravian 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravian_Church influences. It is the biggest 
revivalist movement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revivalism in the Nordic 
countries https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_countries. It has members mainly 
in Finland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finland, North America 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_America, Norway 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norway, Russia 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia and Sweden 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden. There are also smaller congregations in 
Africa, South America and Central Europe. In addition Laestadians have 
missionaries in 23 countries.[1] 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laestadianism#cite_note-1 The number of 
Laestadians worldwide is estimated to be between 144,000 and 219,000.

 

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