Saturday, October 1, 2011

New Temples Announced

This morning President Monson announced five new temples in the following locations:
  • Barranquilla, Colombia
  • Durban, South Africa
  • Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • Provo, UT (second temple built from former Provo Tabernacle)
  • Star Valley, Wyoming
With the announcement of five new temples, this brings the total of LDS temples worldwide to 166. 

2 comments:

Brandon Plewe said...

With the recent Church land purchases downtown, we knew something big was going down in Provo. Durban and Barranquilla are a bit of a surprise, aren't they?

Matt said...

Durban and Star Valley were big surprises for me. I figured a temple in Barranquilla was likely within the next decade. I think we'll have every Spanish-speaking country in South America have two temples before long with the exception of Paraguay and Uruguay.