Temple Facts

By Ann Woodbury Moore

Match each statement with the temple it is about.

a. Washington Temple	____ 1. It was prophesied that this temple would be built twenty-six years before it was formally announced.
b. Salt Lake Temple	____ 2. This temple is located in a small town that was settled in 1687 by Huguenot refugees.
c. Portland Oregon Temple	____ 3. This temple has the largest dimensions of any built by the Church.
d. Nuku‘alofa Tonga Temple	____ 4. The host nation’s king attended the groundbreaking ceremony for this temple.
e. Manila Philippines Temple	____ 5. This temple took more than forty years to complete.
f. Alberta Temple	____ 6. This temple was dedicated on Thanksgiving Day, 1919.
g. Hawaii Temple	____ 7. The land for this temple was originally purchased by the Church for a junior college.
h. Frankfurt Germany Temple	____ 8. This temple was built in an octagonal shape and has no spire.
i. Los Angeles Temple	____ 9. Despite threats of a typhoon, two thousand members attended the groundbreaking ceremony for this temple.
j. Manti Temple	____ 10. The site for this temple was purchased from the Harold Lloyd Motion Picture Company.

Answers:

• (1) j, (2) h, (3) a, (4) d, (5) b, (6) g, (7) c, (8) f, (9) e, (10) i.