The Pentecostal movement entered Denmark in 1907 on the tails of popular Christian revival movements which had especially affected the Lutheran state church. It also coincided with the dawn of a new secular modern culture. The English-born Norwegian Methodist leader T.B. Barratt spent large parts of the first years of his Pentecostal ministry in Copenhagen. He saw the Danish capital as a potential bridgehead from which the movement could spread to the rest of the continent.

Though Barratt would have greater success elsewhere, the revival still made an impact that spanne…