Location: Friedrichsdorf, Hesse, Germany
Dedicated: August 1987 by Ezra Taft Benson
Fun Fact: The week that the ground was broken for this temple was very busy for Gordon B. Hinckley, who was then First Counselor to the Prophet Ezra Taft Benson. President Hinckley had dedicated the Freiberg Germany Temple just the day before, and the day after Frankfurt's groundbreaking he had gone to Sweden to dedicate the Stockholm Temple
Location: Portland, Oregon, USA
Dedicated: August 1989 by Gordon B. Hinckley
Fun Fact: The open house for the Portland Temple drew an unprecedented 314,000+ visitors, at the time, a record-setter.
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Dedicated: December 1989 by Gordon B. Hinckley
Fun Fact: The lobby of the Las Vegas Temple has an architectural element known as a "whispering gallery". The ceiling is shaped in a parabola which allows sound waves to travel and spread throughout the area enclosed by the dome. If a person standing directly beneath the edge of the dome whispers gently, another person standing under the opposite edge of the dome (a few meters away) can hear them clearly, as if they were right next to each other.
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Dedicated: August 1990 by Gordon B. Hinckley
Fun Fact: Due to the cultural diversity of the area, the dedication services were translated from English into six other languages: French, Spanish Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese, and Korean.
Location: San Diego, California, USA
Dedicated: April 1993 by Gordon B. Hinckley
Fun Fact: Crushing the record for the Portland Oregon Temple's open house, the San Diego Temple's open house brought in over 720,000 visitors
Location: Orlando, Florida, USA
Dedicated: October 1994 by Howard W. Hunter
Fun Fact: Along with the Bountiful Temple, one of only two temples dedicated by the Prophet Howard W. Hunter during his brief ministry.
Location: Bountiful, Utah, USA
Dedicated: January 1995 by Howard W. Hunter
Fun Fact: Set a new record for open house attendance by attracting 870,000 visitors, who were guided on their tour by 45,000 volunteeers from the Church.
Location: Hong Kong, China
Dedicated: May 1996 by Gordon B. Hinckley
Fun Fact: Standing on a lot where a Church meetinghouse and a handful of other small Church buildings originally stood, the Hong Kong Temple was designed as the Church's first multipurpose temple, housing facilities for those other buildings within its walls.
Location: American Fork, Utah, USA
Dedicated: October 1996 by Gordon B. Hinckley
Fun Fact: The Mount Timpanogas temple was built to relieve some traffic from the heavily visited Provo Temple. Many members wished to attend the dedicatory service, so the building had to be dedicated over 27 sessions.
Location: St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Dedicated: January 1997 by Gordon B. Hinckley
Fun Fact: The establishment of this Temple constituted a moment of healing and forgiveness for the Latter-day Saints, who had fled Missouri in 1838 due to persecution. The temple generated much interest and articles were written about it in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and in USA Today.
Location: Vernal, Utah, USA
Dedicated: November 1997 by Gordon B. Hinckley
Fun Fact: This is the first temple to be made from an already-standing building. The building was originally a large meetinghouse, or "tabernacle" for the Uintah Stake of the Church, built in 1907. The tabernacle was gutted, the interior was redesigned, and the iconic Angel Moroni Statue was placed on one of the tabernacle's spires.
Location: Preston, Lancashire, England
Dedicated: June 1998 by Gordon B. Hinckley
Fun Fact: The second temple built in England, following the London Temple.
Location: Monticello, Utah, USA
Dedicated: July 1998 by Gordon B. Hinckley
Fun Fact: The Monticello Temple originally featured a Moroni statue made from off-white colored granite similar to the stone of the rest of the building. Temple officials soon realized however, that the statue sort of melted into the background on cloudy days, so just a year later, the statue was replaced with a taller, more traditional gold-leafed version.
Location: Anchorage, Alaska, USA
Dedicated: January 1999 by Gordon B. Hinckley
Fun Fact: At 61.10152° N, this is the northernmost LDS temple worldwide.
Location: Colonia Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico
Dedicated: March 1999 by Gordon B. Hinckley
Fun Fact: At the time this temple was being dedicated, the surrounding area was experiencing a severe drought. In his dedicatory prayer on the Colonia Juarez Temple, the Prophet Gordon B. Hinckley asked God for a rain to fall and quench the dry landscape. After the final session of the dedication, it started to rain.
Location: Madrid, Spain
Dedicated: March 1999 by Gordon B. Hinckley
Fun Fact: In the same complex as the Madrid Spain Temple, reside a meetinghouse, a missionary training center, and another Church building. The plot is often referred to as the "Temple Square of Madrid".
Location: Bogota, Colombia
Dedicated: April 1999 by Gordon B. Hinckley
Fun Fact: Because of difficulty in finding a location that was both available and suitable for the temple's needs, nine years elapsed between the time this temple was announced and the groundbreaking ceremony.
Location: Urdesa, Ecuador
Dedicated: August 1999 by Gordon B. Hinckley
Fun Fact: The first members to perform ordinances in this temple traveled ten hours by bus. They came from two different stakes, and almost filled the temple in one session.
Location: Spokane, Washington, USA
Dedicated: August 1999 by Gordon B. Hinckley
Fun Fact: To celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Spokane Temple's dedication, Mormons in the surrounding area strove to fill every seat of every ordinance through the entire day.
Location: Columbus, Ohio, USA
Dedicated: September 1999
Fun Fact: The white marble used to construct the Colombus Temple was quarried in the vicinity of Sharon, Vermont, the birthplace of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' founder Joseph Smith Jr.
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