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Dedications

1. The year 2000 saw 34 dedications, the most temple dedications in one year in history.
2. Since the dedication of the St. George Utah Temple, the 1900s and 1930s are the only two decades void of temple dedications.
3. Dedications of the first 50 currently operating temples spanned 120 years. The next 50 dedications spanned 3 years.
4. The Monterrey México Temple was the second announced to be built in Mexico but was the twelfth to be dedicated in that country due to long delays in neighborhood negotiations.
5. President Joseph F. Smith died just one year before the dedication of the temple in his beloved Hawaii.
6. The Nauvoo Illinois Temple was dedicated on the 158th anniversary of the martyrdom of Joseph and Hyrum Smith.
7. The St. George Utah Temple, Salt Lake Temple, and Palmyra New York Temple are the three operating temples dedicated on April 6.
8. President Gordon B. Hinckley dedicated 4 temples in just one week, June 11-18, 2000: Fukuoka Japan Temple, Adelaide Australia Temple, Melbourne Australia Temple, and Suva Fiji Temple.
9. The announced date of dedication had to be withdrawn for the Montevideo Uruguay Temple due to a strike in the country that greatly delayed completion of the building.
10. Joseph Fielding Smith wrote the dedicatory prayer for the Provo Utah Temple, but it was read by Harold B. Lee.
11. The dedicatory services of the Mesa Arizona Temple were broadcast over the radio.
12. Because of their historical significance, the dedicatory services of the Palmyra New York Temple, Winter Quarters Nebraska Temple, and Nauvoo Illinois Temple were broadcast internationally via encrypted satellite.

Locations

1. All Spanish-speaking nations in South America have a temple.
2. The Redlands California Temple stands on a parcel of the original Mormon landholdings purchased in October 1851 by Elders Amasa Lyman and Charles C. Rich.
3. An old Elizabethan manor, which was converted for a time for use as a missionary training center for the European saints, sits on the site of the London England Temple.
4. No country outside the United States had more than one temple until 1990 when Canada's second temple was dedicated in Toronto, and East and West Germany reunited, placing its two temples in Freiberg (1985) and Frankfurt (1987) under one nation.
5. Located off Highway 99, the Fresno California Temple-announced in 1999-was the 99th announced temple.
6. The morning of the site dedication of the Manti Utah Temple, Brigham Young took Warren S. Snow aside and said, "Here is the spot where the Prophet Moroni stood and dedicated this piece of land for a temple site, and that is the reason why the location is made here, and we can't move it from this spot."
7. The land where the Portland Oregon Temple stands was originally purchased to build a Church junior college.
8. The Mount Timpanogos Utah Temple is built on the site of a former Church welfare farm.
9. The location of Madrid Spain Temple was announced at the groundbreaking of the Mount Timpanogos Utah Temple.
10. Temples are adjacent to all three Brigham Young University campuses including the Provo Utah Temple, Laie Hawaii Temple, and Rexburg Idaho Temple.