Caracas Venezuela Temple

Caracas Venezuela Temple
Number	96
Dedication	20 August 2000 (20 August 2000) by Gordon B. Hinckley
Site	0.5 acres (0.2 hectares)
Floor area	15,332 sq ft (1,424 m2)
Preceded by	Oklahoma City Oklahoma Temple
Followed by	Houston Texas Temple
Official website • News & images
Additional information Announcement 30 September 1995 Groundbreaking 10 January 1999 by Francisco J. Viñas Open House 5 August – 12 August 2000 Current President Teodoro Hoffmann (2007) Designed by Taller de Arquitectura and Church A&E Services Location Calle C1 con Avenida C Urbanización Caurimare Caracas, Distrito Federal Venezuela Exterior finish Granite Temple design Classic modern, single-spire design Ordinance rooms 2 with Movie, two-stage progressive sessions Sealing rooms 2 Clothing rental No Cafeteria No services Visitors'  center No

The Caracas Venezuela Temple is the 96th operating temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

In 1995, the president of the LDS Church, Gordon B. Hinckley, announced plans to construct a Mormon temple in Venezuela. Immediately following that announcement, a search was conducted to find a suitable site on which to build. Several properties were considered over the next eighteen months but none was chosen. It was finally decided the temple would be built in the city of Caracas on land that the Church already owned. The groundbreaking of the Caracas Venezuela Temple took place in 1999.

Unexpected obstacles occurred during the construction of the temple. When digging the foundation, excavators discovered an underground spring. Once the water was diverted, the excavation continued. However, the digging caused two major landslides. The first landslide did not cause any damage, but the second did. Eight tons of earth and materials were shifted in the slide. Despite these setbacks, the work was completed in just over a year and a half.

Nearly six thousand members of the LDS Church attended the dedication of the Caracas Venezuela Mormon Temple on August 20, 2000. The temple was dedicated by President Hinckley. The Caracas Venezuela Temple has a total of 15,332 square feet (1,424.4 m²), two ordinance rooms, and two sealing rooms. Since 2007, the Caracas Temple is presided, for the first time, by a Venezuelan.

See also

• List of temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
• List of temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by geographic region
• Comparison of temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
• Temple architecture (Latter-day Saints)

External links

Media related to Caracas Venezuela Temple at Wikimedia Commons

• Official LDS Caracas Venezuela Temple page
• Caracas Venezuela Temple page
• The Caracas D. F. Venezuela Temple a brief history from announcement to dedication by Erin Howarth
• Dedicatory Prayer: 'This most significant gift from Thee' by President Gordon B. Hinckley, August 20, 2000.