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LDS Church News: Faith thrives in Arctic community

Published: Sunday, Nov. 2, 2008 12:26 a.m. MDT
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If Longyearbyen is the site of the world's northernmost bank, supermarket and school, as claimed on Wikipedia, it would stand to reason it also has the northernmost seminary. That would be thanks to the Gerez family.

Longyearbyen, located midway between the Arctic Circle and the North Pole, is the largest community -- population about 2,000 -- in Norway's Svalbard Archipelago.

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