The Bern Switzerland Temple begins a new era of temple building, and operation. This is the first temple in Europe, the eastern hemisphere and in a multi-lingual area. Brother Gordon B. Hinckley pioneered the use of films in temples at this time in order to accommodate all the different languages of the members in Europe.

Initially the temple was built with just one big instruction room, and sessions began every 2 hours. In the 90's the room was divided into 4 smaller instruction rooms, now sessions could run every 30 minutes.

Moroni wasn't added to the temple spire until 2005.