Sunday, December 12, 2010

Baptismal Font in Thun


We attended church in this small, member-built (1952) building every year we visited Switzerland until they dissolved the Thun Branch in 2008. It was the oldest branch in the church. (It never grew big enough to be a ward.) Since it was the first church building built in Switzerland, it had to have a baptismal font, but I never knew that. It is concealed under the floor of a classroom in the basement. It has no heat and no drain. You are looking at the "water heater". It is a giant coil, attached to an electrical cord. It did a fine job. To drain the font, they pump the water out. Unless the pump doesn't work. Then they take it out by the bucket-full. We didn't wait around to see if the pump worked.

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