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Temple to
Be Built in Manhattan
The Manhattan Stake Center—site of the
newly announced temple.
Photo credit: Robert Starling
NEW YORK CITY
— The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced
today the construction of a temple in downtown Manhattan.
Located near Lincoln Center, the new temple will occupy the top
floors of an existing Church facility — a pattern already established
successfully in Hong Kong.
Like the temple in Hong Kong, the New York building is adjacent
to other city buildings and blends into the surrounding urban landscape.
The recent pattern of Latter-day Saint temple building allows newer
temples to adapt to smaller and more varied sites.
Also as in Hong Kong, the Manhattan building will continue to house
a chapel and classrooms for Sunday worship services and a cultural
hall for midweek social activities. A Public Affairs Department
office and a family history center — a genealogical research
facility open to the public — will remain.
Design and renovation work has already begun.
The Lincoln Center is located across the street from the temple.
Photo credit: Robert Starling
The temple in
Manhattan will be the Church's second in New York. Church President
Gordon B. Hinckley dedicated a temple in Palmyra on 6 April 2000
— exactly 170 years after the Church was organized in nearby
Fayette. The fast-growing faith currently has 113 temples in operation
throughout the world and another 13 announced or under construction.
The Church also has land and building permission for a temple at
Harrison, New York.
Current entrance to the Manhattan Stake Center.
Photo credit: Robert Starling
For more than
11 million Latter-day Saints worldwide, including more than 62,000
who reside in the New York area, temples are considered "houses
of the Lord" where Christ's teachings are reaffirmed through
marriage, baptism and other sacred ordinances that unite families
for eternity.
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