PNW Temples
The temple members of the Centralia Stake are currently assigned to.
What is the Portland Oregon Temple?
The person(s) you interview with to get a temple recommend.
Who are the bishop (or his counselors) and the stake president (or his counselors)?
This temple took 40 years to build, is the tallest temple to date (210 ft tall) and was built with granite from the local mountains.
The number of oxen that hold up the baptismal font in the baptistry of the temple.
What is 12?
The first temple built in the Pacific Northwest.
What is the Seattle Washington Temple?
(Dedicated in 1990)
The names of all the ordinances performed in the temple.
What are baptisms (for the dead), initiatories, endowments and sealings?
This person restored the sealing keys.
Who is Elijah?
These words are engraved on the outside of every temple.
What is “Holiness to the Lord” and “The House of the Lord” ?
The number of temples operating, under construction / renovation, and announced as of April 2023.
What is 315?
Name one person who broke ground for the building of the Seattle Temple.
Who is Brother Boren?
The youngest age worthy members of the church can enter the temple and perform baptisms for the dead.
What is 11 years old?
(Kids can enter beginning in January the year they turn 12)
In April 1836, the Savior appeared to Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery in this temple.
What is the Kirtland Ohio Temple?
Name one of the temples that don't have a steeple or tower (there are 4).
Acceptable answers: What is the Laie Hawaii, Cardston Alberta Canada, Paris France or Mesa Arizona Temple?
The nearest temples to one another.
What are the Provo City Center Temple and Provo Utah Temple?
(They are 2.4 miles away from each other. Outside the U.S., the closest temples are Guatemala City Guatemala and Mira Flores Guatemala, at 4.3 miles apart)
The PNW temple dedicated by Gordon B Hinckley.
What is the Portland Oregon Temple?
(President Ezra Taft Benson presided and offered remarks at the first three dedicatory sessions of the Portland Oregon Temple, though he extended the responsibility of the dedicatory prayer to his first counselor, Gordon B. Hinckley.)
The length of time temple recommends are active (before they expire).
What is 2 years?
The first temple built outside of the United States.
What is the Cardston Alberta Temple?
The first temple to present ordinances in a language other than english (in 1945).
What is the Mesa Arizona Temple?
(The language was Spanish)
Name a temple that features the angel Moroni holding the golden plates (there are 5).
Acceptable answers: What is the Seattle Washington, Los Angeles California, Washington D.C., Jordan River Utah, and Mexico City Mexico Temple?
The process of making an appointment for the temple.
What is go online to the church website, log in, and choose a date and time to sign up for an appointment at a specific temple?
This temple WAS adorned with gold, silver and many other precious materials and took seven years to construct.
What is the Temple of Solomon?
During the preparation of the site of this temple, there were several World War II concrete bunkers found underground.
What is the Suva Fiji Temple?
This temple was where the first baptisms for the dead were performed.
What is the St. George Utah Temple?