personal quote:
We need not think alike to love alike.

Francis David

The Unitarian movement
Our organisation, congregations and societies

GERMANY

Liberal religion within Germany embraces a large number of religiously free-minded people. Yet liberal religion is only loosely organised, divided among several denominational bodies of various historic, ideological and organizational origin. Two of the more important groups are described below:

Freireligiose Gemeinden (Free Religious congregations). The free religious organisations broke away from the state church in the middle of the 19th century, having been involved in the democratic movement during the German Revolution. The free religious movement is non-hierarchical in its organization and non-dogmatic in its teaching. While the federal League of Free Religious Societies holds membership in the International Humanist and Ethical Union, there are two regions holding additional contact with the International Association for Religious Freedom (IARF).

Deutsche Unitarier Religionsgemeineschaft (D.U.R) is a democratic fellowship, originating in the 19th century, newly spread throughout Germany with approximately 1,600 members in 26 lay-led congregations.

Contact: Wolfgang Jantz
e-mail

HUNGARY

After the unification of Transylvania with Hungary in 1867 many Unitarians settled in Budapest and in other Hungarian towns and an influential church was established in the capital in 1869 which is today the site of the headquarters of the denomination. There are 12 Unitarian congregations in Hungary plus 21 fellowships.

Contact: Unitarian Church of Hungary, 1055 Budapest V., Nagy Ignac u. 4, HUNGARY

ICELAND

Contact: Jon Gunnarson, Hjardarhaga 48, 107 Reykjavik, Iceland

INDIA

There is a Unitarian church and congregation in Madras (est. 1795) and fellowships in Hyderabad and Erode, South India. The Khasi and Jaintia Hills Unitarian Union includes thirty-two scattered congregations in Meghalaya and Assam with a growing membership of about 9,000 people. Its members belong to the hill tribes and speak the Khasi language. A magazine, 'U Nongwad /Inquirer' appears quarterly.

Contact:
Carleywell Lyngdoh, Unitarian Union of NE India, JOWAI, 793150, Meghalaya, INDIA
e-mail Unitarian Union of North East India

IRELAND

(see listing of congregations in the British Isles - here)

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