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In the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), a temple is a building dedicated to be a House of the Lord. Temples are considered by church members to be the most sacred structures on earth.
During the open house held May 6–13, 2000, almost 25,000 people toured the temple. James E. Faust, of the church's First Presidency, dedicated the Nashville Tennessee Temple on May 21, 2000. [2] The Nashville Tennessee Temple has a total floor area of 10,700 square feet (990 m 2), two ordinance rooms, and two sealing rooms. [2]
Brasília Brazil Temple: Operating 25,000 sq ft (2,323 m 2) 6 acres (24,281 m 2) 17 September 2023 Neil L. Andersen [46] edit: 181 Bentonville Arkansas Temple: Operating 28,472 sq ft (2,645 m 2) 18.62 acres (75,352 m 2) 17 September 2023 David A. Bednar [47] edit: 182 Moses Lake Washington Temple: Operating 28,933 sq ft (2,688 m 2) 17.2 acres ...
At the very center of the room is the tombstone of Ahmad al-Mansur. To his immediate right (from the perspective of present-day visitors seeing the room) is the tombstone of his son, Sultan Moulay Zidan (died 1627), and to his immediate left is the tombstone of Sultan Muhammad al-Shaykh al-Saghir (died 1654–55).
Manti Utah Temple: Utah: United States North America 27 acres (109,265 m 2) 74,792 sq ft (6,948 m 2) 179 ft (55 m) 1 4 8 4 Closed for renovation Salt Lake Temple: Utah: United States: North America: 10 acres (40,469 m 2) 382,207 sq ft (35,508 m 2) 222 ft (68 m) 2 5 22 Yes. 5 Operating Laie Hawaii Temple: Hawaii: United States: North America
King of Morocco Mohammed VI. Like late Hassan II, his son King Mohammed VI of Morocco, whose reign began in 1999, maintained unofficial relations with Israel.Mohammed VI's advisor, André Azoulay, is an instrumental Jewish Moroccan who facilitated the growth of Morocco in both economic and political terms.
Although the city of Marrakesh was founded by the Almoravids in 1060, Jews settled 40 km away and there is no recorded Jewish presence in the city until 1232. After the Reconquista and expulsion of Jews from the Iberian Peninsula in 1492, Sephardic Jews (known as the Megorashim) started to arrive in great numbers to Morocco, settling mostly in cities and mixing with the local Jewish population ...
The synagogue continued being used actively through the end of the 1950s, [4] when most of the Jewish community left the country for Israel, France, and Montreal ().After Morocco gained its independence from France in 1956, the synagogue fell into disrepair and was eventually turned into a carpet-making workshop, and later a boxing gymnasium.