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The Anchorage Alaska Temple now has a total floor area of 11,937 square feet (1,109.0 m 2), two ordinance rooms, and one sealing room. In 2020, like all others in the church, the Anchorage Alaska Temple was temporarily closed in response to the coronavirus pandemic .
In the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church)—Mormonism's largest denomination—there have been numerous changes to temple ceremonies in the church's over-200-year history. Temples are not churches or meetinghouses designated for public weekly worship services, but rather sacred places that only admit members in good ...
In the LDS Church it is also called the fulness of the priesthood, and is a rare, but currently practiced ordinance for live participants, [28] [29] [30] and (less commonly) vicariously for deceased individuals, [31] though, it is usually only given in absolute secrecy to a small number of members after a lifetime of service. [32]
In the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), Mormonism's largest denomination, the ordinance is currently only given in secret to select couples whom top leaders say God has chosen. [7] The LDS Church regularly performed the ceremony for nominated couples from the 1840s to the 1920s, and continued less regularly into the 1940s.
In the LDS Church today, temples serve two main purposes: (1) temples are locations in which Latter-day Saints holding a temple recommend can perform ordinances on behalf of themselves and their deceased ancestors, and (2) temples are considered to be a house of holiness where members can go to commune with God and receive personal revelation. [16]
A meetinghouse for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, located along the Seward Highway, just north of Seward, Alaska. A meetinghouse for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Nenana, Alaska. As of January 2024, there were 9 stakes in Alaska. [10] A branch in Whitehorse, Yukon is part of the Juneau Alaska Stake.
The first building to have ordinance rooms, designed to conduct the Endowment, was Joseph Smith's store in Nauvoo, Illinois, in 1842.Using canvas, Smith divided the store's large, second-floor room into "departments," which represented "the interior of a temple as much as circumstances would permit" (Anderson & Bergera, Quorum of Anointed, 2).
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