Niue is a small island 300 miles southeast of Samoa. The first Latter-day Saint missionaries arrived there in 1952, baptizing 65 converts by the end of that year. The first meetinghouse built by labor missionaries was dedicated in 1958. The Church in Niue is administered by the New Zealand Auckland mission. By the year 2000 Niue had 230 Latter-day Saints living in four branches.
[Year-end 2005: Est. population, 2,166; Members, 230; Districts, 1: Branches, 3: Percent LDS, 12, or one in 8, Pacific Islands Area; Tonga Nuku’alofa Mission; Source: 2007 Church Almanac.]
SOURCES
Britsch, R. Lanier. Unto the Islands of the Sea: A History of the Latter-day Saints in the Pacific. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book. 1986.
1999-2000 Church Almanac. Salt Lake City: Deseret News. 1998. 366.
ERIC B. SHUMWAY
From Arnold K. Garr, Donald Q. Cannon, and Richard O. Cowan, eds., Encyclopedia of Latter-day Saint History (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2000), 853-54. Used with the permission of the Deseret Book Company. Copies prohibited by law.