Initially, the Federation, the formation of which took place on 1517 April 1977, was located in Norsborg and had only 3,000 members.
Norsborg is a part of Botkyrka Municipality in Stockholm County, Sweden. The Assyrian Federation of Sweden (AFS) was founded in 1977 as a nationwide umbrella organisation for the various local associations in Sweden. The formation took place on 1517 April 1977, with twenty-one representatives from eleven associations present, unanimously deciding to unite into a national organisation. Initially, the Federation had 3,000 members which soon doubled by 1980. Assyrians/Syriacs first came to Sweden from Syria for work in the late 1960s when Europe needed laborers for its industries. 
