Temples in South America Articles
On 13 December 2008 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon Church) announced that it will build a temple in Trujillo, Peru. The temple will be located at Teodoro Valcárcel, Urbanización Primavera, Trujillo, La Libertad, Peru. This location already has a stake center on the site. This will be the second LDS temple in Peru.
Members in the Trujillo area must travel 9-10 hours to reach the existing temple in Lima. Some days, the Lima Temple is so busy, that patrons patiently wait for hours before being able to enter.
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On 4 October 2008 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon Church) announced the construction of a new temple in Córdoba, Argentina. The new temple will be located in Villa Belgrano next to the Church mission home, and will be Argentina’s second temple.
Members in the Córdoba area currently travel some 400 miles to participate in temple ordinances in the Buenos Aires Argentina Temple, which serves 60 stakes and 30 districts throughout Argentina.
Membership of the Church in Argentina has grown steadily since the 1920’s. The first members were European immigrants who requested missionaries. There were 356, 000 Mormons in Argentina in 2006.
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The Manaus Brazil Mormon Temple, now under construction, is located at Estrada da Ponta Negra, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil, on the banks of the Negro River. The temple was announced on 23 May 2007, and the groundbreaking took place on 20 June 2008.
The Manaus Brazil Mormon Temple will serve the Latter-day Saint membership in northern Brazil, and will be the sixth temple to be built in the country. Four temples are located in the heavily populated south, and one is located on the east coast at Recife. Manaus is in northwestern Brazil in the Amazon region.
An interesting fact about the temple is that it will have a port entry for those traveling to worship there by way of the river. The Negro River joins the Amazon about 11 miles south of the temple location.
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To Mormons, a temple is a building dedicated to be a house of God. Mormon temples differ from a church meetinghouse, in that the meetinghouse is used for weekly worship services, and the temples are used for special forms of worship. The importance of temples is emphasized in the Mormon Church and the Church strongly encourages its members to become worthy to attend the temple often.
Worthy members participate in sacred ordinances and make covenants with God in the temple. These ordinances and covenants are necessary for the salvation of man and can only be performed in temples. The temple is a learning center where those who enter gain a better understanding of our purpose in life and our relationship with God and His Son, Jesus Christ.
Only in the Mormon temple can a family be sealed together forever. Marriage in the temple joins a man and woman as husband and wife eternally, if they honor their covenants. When a man and woman are married in the temple, their children also become... Read the rest of this article »
The Recife Brazil Temple sits on 5.59 acres, shaded by mango trees and towering royal palms, and surrounded by a beautiful garden. The temple exterior is finished with Asa branca granite from Brazil and features a single spire topped with a gold statue of the angel Moroni. The Mormon temple is larger than many being built with a total of 37,200 square feet, to accommodate the 137,500 members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in northern Brazil. Many of them have not had a chance to go the temple because they could not afford the 72-hour trip to the temple in São Paulo. Now they will be able to enjoy the blessings of the LDSMormon) temple in their own lives and an opportunity to bless the lives of their ancestors as well. (
President Gordon B. Hinckley, during a visit to members and Mormon missionaries in Brazil, presided over the groundbreaking ceremony on 11 November 1996. During the ceremony he said, “The gospel is not complete without the ordinances of the house of... Read the rest of this article »
Bolivia opened its doors to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1963. Less than forty years later there are over 110,000 members across the country.
In 1995 the Mormon Church announced that they would be building a Mormon temple in Cochabamba Bolivia. The next year President Hinckley presided over the groundbreaking. He addressed the 4,000 gathered Saints during one of the heaviest rainstorms the area had seen in ten years. “My beloved and wet brothers and sisters,”1 he began. Then he went on to share a story about a young woman, who as a girl, went with her father every Saturday to visit the Guatemala City temple while it was being built. She shared that during those visits she made the decision to be married in the temple. Years later she did.
Then the prophet said, “I want to challenge each of you here today to get a temple recommend now, to be worthy of a temple recommend. You will not be able to attend the new temple for two years, but let that recommend be a... Read the rest of this article »
In 1975 at an area conference in Brazil, then President of the Mormon Church, Spencer W. Kimball, announced that a temple would be built in Sao Paulo. The members rejoiced and wept; but above all they were ready to sacrifice, work, and prepare for the Mormon temple in their midst.
Since part of the cost of the building of the temple is borne by the general membership of the Mormon Church, South American members were given an assignment to earn money towards the temple fund, in addition to paying tithes and offerings. Each ward or branch was assigned an amount of money to raise. ‘The members were given a dollar quota, not a peso quota, which meant that despite inflation of the peso, they paid a standard amount converted to the United States dollar. South American inflation [in 1974] ranged from forty percent in one country to 600 percent in another.’1 Many of the members did not have money to contribute to the temple fund. Members offering their wedding rings, bracelets, gold medals,... Read the rest of this article »
Plans to build the Campinas, Brazil Mormon Temple were announced on April 3, 1997. More than 30 temples were announced on this day, and the Mormon Church leadership requested that members send in donations to help specifically with temple work. The Mormon members from the Campinas area responded quickly, sending in donation after donation. One of the most touching donations came from an eight-year-old boy who had worked tirelessly to earn $100.
This would be the fourth Mormon temple to be built in Brazil.
The first Mormon missionaries did not arrive in Brazil until the 1920’s. Most of the early converts in Brazil were German immigrants coming to Brazil after World War I. In 1931, the 80 members of the small branch near Sao Paulo built the first Mormon meetinghouse in Brazil. During World War II Mormon missionaries were removed from Brazil, but when missionaries returned after the war, Brazilian natives began joining the Church by the hundreds. The Mormon membership in Brazil is strong... Read the rest of this article »
In 1850, Mormon missionaries from America arrived in Chile to begin preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ to the Chilean people; however, their stay was not to last, due to the apparent language barrier. Ninety-five years would pass before two missionaries from Argentina would arrive to begin preaching again.
It was at this time that Brother and Sister Ricardo Garcia were the first to be baptized. Brother Garcia clearly remembers his baptism in 1956, “I knew that this was the true Church – mine was not just faith, but a conviction…because of the teachings on the Word of Wisdom and tithing, I thought it would be impossible for the [Mormon] Church to succeed here. …now there are hundreds and…thousands of people”.1 Twenty-seven years [1983] after Brother Garcia’s baptism, and at the dedication of the Santiago Chile Mormon Temple, there were 140,000 members of the Mormon Church in the country of Chile.
Three years prior to the dedication, the announcement to build the Santiago... Read the rest of this article »
Many of us who sojourn on the earth have asked, “Where did I come from? Why am I here? Where am I going? What is my relationship to God? Will death rob me of the treasured associations of life? What of my family? Will there be another existence after this, and, if so, will we know one another there?”
These answers are found in the Temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS/Mormons). These Temples are sacred places in which these and other eternal questions are answered. Each Mormon Temple is dedicated as a house of God, a place of peace, a place of holiness set apart from the world.
Much of the work that is done in the Mormon Temple is concerned with the family; we are each a member of God’s eternal family and we are members of an earthly family. Emphasis is placed on the sanctity and eternal nature of the marriage covenant and family relationships. Marriage partners who come to the Mormon Temple and who partake of its blessings are joined together not only for... Read the rest of this article »
