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The Phoenix Arizona Temple is a temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), in Phoenix, Arizona. It was completed in 2014 and is the LDS Church's 144th temple. The announcement on May 24, 2008 of the planned construction of the temple came a month after the Gila Valley and Gilbert temples were announced for Arizona.
[12] [13] The Mesa Arizona Temple was the first temple in the Church to be rededicated (on April 15, 1975) after extensive remodeling and enlarging to accommodate increased attendance. On March 3, 2002, a second Arizona temple was dedicated in Snowflake.
After the death of Joseph Smith in 1844, ownership of the temple shifted, eventually resulting in the Kirtland Temple Suit court case 1880. While the court case was dismissed, the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (RLDS Church, now Community of Christ) secured ownership of the temple through adverse possession by at least ...
The LDS Church has 367 temples in various phases, which includes 202 dedicated temples (193 operating, 9 undergoing renovations [1]), 4 with a dedication scheduled, 48 under construction, 4 with groundbreakings scheduled, [2] and 110 others announced (not yet under construction). [3]
The ordinance caused consternation across Mesa, home of the state’s first Latter-day Saints temple and a concentrated Mormon community in Arizona. A local representative of the church weighed in ...
The LDS Church has 367 temples in various phases, which includes 202 dedicated temples (193 operating, 9 undergoing renovations [1]), 4 with a dedication scheduled, 49 under construction, 3 with groundbreakings scheduled, [2] and 110 others announced (not yet under construction). [3]
In the LDS Church, a temple is a building dedicated to be a House of the Lord and considered by church members to be the most sacred structures on earth. Upon completion, temples are usually open to the public for a short period of time (an "open house"), and then each is dedicated as a "House of the Lord," after which only members with a ...
A Mormon leader first asked permission for members of the persecuted faith to settle in Texas in 1844. There were 28 Mormons in Fort Worth in 1920. Soon they will build a 30,000-square-foot temple