- Temple Dedication
- Bangkok Thailand Temple – #185
- Dedicated on October 22nd by Ronald Rasband
- Used to make business trips to Thailand as an executive for Huntsman Chemical.
- First Temple in Southeast Asia, Rasband paid tribute to
- President Hinckley, who in 2000 foretold of a temple;
- President Thomas S. Monson, who officially announced the temple in 2015;
- President Russell M. Nelson, who toured the temple site five years ago
- Brigham Young Sent Missionaries to “Siam” in 1852
- only one made it, stayed a few months, and left not able to break the language barrier.
- English congregation in the 1950s, missionaries assigned in 1968.
- Temple district spans from Vietnam to Pakistan and from Nepal to Indonesia
- 13 stakes, 22 districts
- Dinner meeting with leaders from 11 countries before the dedication.
- Temples planned for India, Cambodia, Singapore, and Indonesia
- Temple Open House begins
- Orem Utah Temple
- Media Day on October 23rd
- Reyna Aburto, Orem Resident and member of the open house committee.
- Emphasis on Utah Valley University Students
- Interior Photos released
- The Williamson Family from Norway farmed the property from 1864 to 2004.
- Baptismal font and windows are themed after Utah Lake with cattails and birds.
- Marble wainscoting and coffered ceilings
- Cherry Trees: everything everywhere all at once, Stained glass and blossoms in flooring, carpets, walls, chandeliers, furniture, throughout the temple
- Cherry Colors: Reds and greens, with light-brown and pink accents
- Open House through December 16th, except Sundays and Thanksgiving
- Paves the Way for the Provo Temple to be demolished and rebuilt starting February 24th.
- Temple Groundbreaking
- Fort Worth Texas Temple in Burleson Texas
- Presided by Jose L. Alonzo
- Held in a nearby chapel due to rain. A group went to the site to turn the shovels.
- 83,000 members in the DFW in 214 congregations
- 2nd of 3 temples planned for the metroplex (Dallas/Prosper).
- Fort Worth Texas Temple in Burleson Texas
- Temple Sites revealed
- Vienna Austria Temple
- 0.8 acre site in northwest Vienna at the site of a meetinghouse
- Meetinghouse for the Döbling (English) Ward
- Multi-story temple of 15,300 sq. ft.
- Is the meetinghouse being demolished?
- 0.8 acre site in northwest Vienna at the site of a meetinghouse
- Harrisburg Pennsylvania Temple
- 5 Acre Site in eastern Harrisburg
- Around the corner from the Harrisburg Stake Center (Harrisburg and Hershey) on Rutherford Road
- Across from Central Dauphin East High School and adjacent to the Woodlawn Memorial Gardens
- Single-story temple of 20,000 sq. ft.
- Winchester Virginia
- 11 acre site in western Winchester on Merrimans Lane
- Next to John Kerr Elementary and across from the Sacred Heart of Jesus Catholic Church
- Single-story temple of 30,000 sq. ft.
- Vienna Austria Temple
- Temple Dedication Announced
- Red Cliffs Utah Temple
- Open House: January 30 – March 2, 2023
- Dedication: March 24, 2023 by Henry Eyring
- Red Cliffs Utah Temple
- Temple Groundbreaking Announced
- Kaohsiung Taiwan Temple
- November 25, 2023
- Presiding: Elder Benjamin M.Z. Tai, Asia Area President
- Kaohsiung Taiwan Temple
- First Meetinghouse in the city of London
- Church purchased Alder Castle in 2019 under the investment group “Convent Garden” for £100 million.
- Office building built in the middle of ruins of a Roman fort and city wall, down the street from St. Paul’s Cathedral.
- Convent Garden also purchased an Amazon Warehoused
- Lloyds Bank will terminate its lease and the space in the building will be converted to a church meetinghouse opening February or March 2024.
- Speculation that the building could house a Central London Temple, as the temple in Crawley is far from the city center.
- Church purchased Alder Castle in 2019 under the investment group “Convent Garden” for £100 million.
- Construction Progress
- Heber Valley Utah Temple
- Wasatch County recommends approval
- 6 hour meeting of the Planning Commission
- Stipulations about measuring light levels over many years
- People gathered outside and sang “I Love to See the Temple”
- Wasatch County recommends approval
- Cody Wyoming
- Details of the Lawsuites come out
- Alleged that the city planner misled the planning commission while working behind the scenes with local church leaders.
- Details of the Lawsuites come out
- Heber Valley Utah Temple
- Mailbag
- With so many temples are being announced (153 Nelson Temples); a large backlog is building.
- 36% are under construction or dedicated, 27% have announced sites, 37% no public progress.
- With so many announcements, it feels like many won’t even be built.
- Typical Announcement to groundbreaking is 1-3 years
- A few shorter (3 months – Helena), some longer (8 years – Urdaneta)
- Current Nelson Temples with slow progress
- Russia – 5.5 years
- In April 2021, the name of the temple was briefly changed to “Russia Administration Building” and “Classified.”
- The pandemic and war in Ukraine have dramatically changed the church in Russia
- Reported membership:
- 2017: 23,000
- 2022: 5,000
- Cagayan de Oro Philippines – 5.5 years
- Lagos Nigeria – 5 years (site announced)
- Budapest Hungary – 4.5 years (site announced)
- Benin City Nigeria – 3.5 years (site announced)
- Shanghai – 3.5 years
- Dubai UAE – 3.5 years (general area announced)
- Russia – 5.5 years
- Longest time from Announcement to Groundbreaking:
- Kiev Ukraine: almost 9 years (1998-2007)
- Bogotá Colombia: 9 years (1984-1993)
- Guayaquil Ecuador: 14 years (1982-1996)
- Los Angeles: 14.5 years (1937-1951) – Delayed by War
- Temples that have had announcements withdrawn or abandoned
- Independance, Far West, Adam Ondi-Ahmen – 1830s
- Abandoned efforts due to leaving Missouri.
- Samoa Temple – 1977
- The Temple in American Samoa was replaced by 3 temples (Samoa, Tonga, Tahiti) in 1980
- New Temples announced in Pago Pago in 2019
- Hartford Connecticut Temple – 1992
- Announcement withdrawn in 1995 to build two temples (Boston and White Plains)
- Harrison New York Temple (White Plains)
- Community opposition and Law suites slowed progress
- Temple approved in April 2002
- Temple Announced for Manhattan in 2002
- Efforts to built were quietly halted in 2006
- Sometimes temple sites change:
- Tegucigalpa Honduras
- Tooele (Erda) Utah
- Southwest Salt Lake Valley
- Not an officially announced temple
- When President Hinckley announced a temple in Daybreak (Oquirrh Mountain), he mentioned that the church had had an additional temple site in the southwest of the valley.
- Probably the site next to the meetinghouse on Juniper Crest Road in Herriman.
- Independance, Far West, Adam Ondi-Ahmen – 1830s
- Temple announcements come in the form of “Announce our plans to build,” not a temple shall be built.
- Typical Announcement to groundbreaking is 1-3 years
- With so many temples are being announced (153 Nelson Temples); a large backlog is building.
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