Temple Of The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter Day Saints
According to the doctrine of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints , the temple is a building to be the home of Lord and considered by Latter-day Saints as the holiest place on earth. Under this doctrine, it has always been the Lord commanded the people to build temples and sacred buildings in which the saints worthy perform ceremonies and sacred ordinances of the Gospel for themselves and for the dead. According to Mormon doctrine, the temples are visited by the Lord.
Among Latter-day Saints, the temple stands a church , like Jerusalem temple differs from a synagogue. The Sunday meetings are not held. Attendance at the temple by the Latter-day Saints is like a spiritual retreat in which most time is devoted to the sacraments for the dead.
The temples are usually open to the public for a short period of time (open house) and are dedicated as "House of the Lord." Thereafter, only members of the Church worthy are allowed to enter.
The Latter-day Saints consider the presence of the temples as the complete fulfillment of the promise found in Malachi 3:23,24 Etymology The Latin templum was the equivalent of Beth Elohim Hebrew and meant the abode of the Godhead. The tabernacle built by Moses and the Israelites was a portable temple. The Israelites used it during their exodus from Egypt , then, having taken possession of Canaan, the tabernacle was set up in Shiloh. Later he was transferred to Gibeon and finally to the City of David. The original Tabernacle was the tent which housed the Ark of the Covenant at the time of Moses The most famous temple of the Bible is the one built by Solomon in Jerusalem (2 Chronicles 2-5). It was built in seven and a half years, around the year 1005 BC He was desecrated and destroyed in 600 BC. BC by the Babylonians and restored by Zerubbabel nearly a hundred years later (Ezra 1-6). Part of this temple was burned in 37 BC. BC , and Herod the Great rebuilt it later. The Romans destroyed it in AD 70. AD In the Book of Mormon , the disciples of God were brought to build and worship in temples: 2 Nephi 5:16 "And I, Nephi, I built a temple and I built it in the manner of Solomon's temple, except that it was not built of so many precious things, because we could not find them in the country, so it could not be built as the Temple of Solomon "(and Mosiah 1:18; 3 Nephi 11 : 1). Designed by architect William Weeks Mormon, edited by Joseph Smith , the contemporary construction of the first temple began in Nauvoo on 6 April 1841 and was consecrated in 1846. William Weeks uses distinct symbols of Latter-day Saints: the sun, moon and stars representing three degrees of glory in the afterlife. Before its completion, the church members knew they were going to leave the temple. Work has continued however, and the temple was formally dedicated by Orson Hyde after the departure of the Mormon pioneers into the Salt Lake Valley. Unlike other temples, partial installments of the temple were dedicated separately before completion: the baptismal font in the basement and attic. Four days after their arrival in the Great American Desert in 1847, the valley of Great Salt Lake , Mormon pioneers began to build a new temple that lasted nearly 40 years, the Salt Lake Temple. The first temple built in Europe (1954) is the temple of Zollikofen, Bern, Switzerland, called the Temple of Berne In late 2008, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints had 128 temples in operation, 12 temples in construction phase and 5 new temples announced: Kansas City (Kansas USA), Philadelphia (Pennsylvania, USA), Calgary (Alberta-Canada), Cordoba (Argentina) and Rome (Italy). In terms of French-speaking regions, there is a temple in Quebec and one in French Polynesia, but he did not yet find in France Metropole. The LDS temple in French travel abroad: Madrid , Bern , Frankfurt , The Hague and London , especially for marriage. The Papeete Tahiti Temple is the first temple built in France and the 25th temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The temple serves more than 21,000 members of the Church of French Polynesia. It was inaugurated in 1984. In 2011, eleven temples are based in Europe and a temple is built: and: Temple, London, England Temple in Freiberg, Germany Hall of Preston, England Hall of Madrid ( Spain ) Hall of Copenhagen, Denmark Hall of The Hague, Netherlands Hall Helsinki, Finland Hall of Aba, Nigeria Hall of Hong Kong Nuku'alofa Tonga Temple Hall of Campinas, Brazil Temple of Alberta, Canada Temple in Fukuoka, Japan Hall of Bogota, Colombia Hall of Perth, Australia Temple in Seoul, South Korea Panama Temple Hall of Accra, Ghana Temple Guatemala City The Christian cross is not used as a symbol, the LDS prefer the idea of Christ risen and alive, which, according to their belief, is its reality. The most commonly used symbol is the angel Moroni , proclaiming the everlasting gospel to the inhabitants of the earth (cf. Apocalypse 14:6). A statue of an angel blowing a trumpet arrow adorns many temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. At each temple pediment is the inscription Holiness to the Lord, the Lord's house According to Mormon doctrine, construction and proper use of the temple are evidence of the true Church in any dispensation , including today. The Kirtland Temple was the first temple built and dedicated to the Lord in this dispensation. Since then, the temples were dedicated in many countries. James E. Talmage (The House of the Lord, Salt Lake City, 1912) and Boyd K. Packer (The Holy Temple, Bookcraft, Salt Lake City, 1980), Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, have each in their writings mentioned various sacraments or ordinances of the temple. There is mention of the following sacraments: There is mention of the temple ordinances and practices also in the Scriptures (see Doctrine and Covenants 88:137-141; 124:37-39). The temple ordinances are divided into four categories that result in four different sessions in which the Latter-day Saints found eligible can participate: To define what is done to the temple, another apostle of the Church, Robert D. Hales said: All the temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have a baptistery on the lower floor. They are used for baptisms for the dead. The font is based on the backs of twelve oxen symbolize the twelve tribes of Israel. The construction of temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is growing steadily with a remarkable peak in 2000. In 2008 there were 128 temples in operation. The construction program is still ongoing. Various authors anti-Masonic and Masonic claimed that the Mormons use signs Masonic and that Joseph Smith himself was an excluded member of the Masonic lodges, which would explain the origin of the symbolism of Mormon temples. The Mormons, however, claim that teaching is a Masonic rest of what goes to the temple of Solomon, while teaching the Mormon temple is the version divinely revealed to Joseph Smith. Moreover, regarding the situation of Joseph Smith in Masonry: It has not been ruled out, but his box, the Nauvoo Lodge was suspended, which did not, however withdrew its quality Builders to Joseph Smith. It was only much later that there had, in Utah, a conflict between the Grand Lodge of Utah and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day conflict that was settled in 1984 with the intervention of Spencer W. Kimball , president of the Church, who made peace with Masonry in Utah. Since there are many Masons among Mormons in Utah and elsewhere. History of Temples
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