Because the good news was making fine progress, Jacob B. Sima, a Bible Student of Romanian origin, was assigned to help coordinate the work and to get it on a legal footing. Shortly after his arrival in Cluj-Napoca in 1920, Sima met with Károly Szabó and then with József Kiss. Of high priority was the finding of a suitable house in Cluj-Napoca for a branch office. There was a housing shortage, however, so the brothers set up a temporary office at a brother’s apartment. Thus, in April 1920 the first branch was established, as was the legal entity the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society. For a time, the Romania branch also supervised the work in Albania, Bulgaria, Hungary, and the former Yugoslavia.

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Construction of the new office in Cluj-Napoca, 1924