Temple History
This was the first temple dedicated in the modern day, and is no longer owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
What is the Kirtland temple?
This is the total number of temples announced, dedicated, or under construction.
What is 300?
(as of Feb. 2023)
These are the common names of the four saving ordinances available to all through the temple.
What are baptism, initiatory, endowment, and sealing?
The first question is about having a testimony of this important trio.
Use this app or program to get names for the temple names prepped through Ordinances Ready.
What is FamilySearch (or Family Tree app)?
This temple was #100 dedicated in modern times.
What is the Boston Massachusetts temple?
This is the number of temples outside of the United States, announced, dedicated or under construction.
What is 202?
(as of Feb. 2023)
These are the five covenants made in the temple during the presentation of the endowment.
Hint: General Handbook 27.2
What are the covenants to live the laws of obedience, of sacrifice, of the gospel, of chastity and of consecration?
You meet with a member of this group in order to receive a temple recommend.
What is the bishopric (and the stake presidency for a full recommend)?
In just the fourth generation back in your family tree, there are this many people, all your great-great grandparents.
What is 16?
This was the first latter-day temple constructed outside of US territory.
What is the Cardston Alberta temple?
(Hawaii was technically a US territory since 1900, and Bern Switzerland was the first outside of North American territory)
All temples share some common features, such as fonts and this special sacred room where you can ponder at the end of the endowment session.
What is the Celestial Room?
This ordinance allows a husband and wife to be married for this life and all eternity.
What is the sealing ordinance?
You sustain this person as the prophet, seer and revelator, and as the only person on the earth authorized to exercise all priesthood keys
Who is the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints?
The study of family history is sometimes called by this name, meaning the study of your genes or ancestry.
What is genealogy?
It took this long originally for the Salt Lake temple construction, from groundbreaking to dedication.
What is >40 years?
If you were called to serve a mission to Panama, the closest temple would be found in this city.
What is Corozal, a suburb of Panama City?
(You might be able to see the ships in the Panama Canal from the temple grounds)
In this ordinance, men and women are anointed as kings and queens, priests and priestesses to the Most High God.
What is initiatory?
You must strive for moral cleanliness in these things for a temple recommend.
What are your thoughts and behaviors?
This is the process of interpreting and digitizing older records so that others may search through them. It is easy and an activity that many teenagers do to get involved in family history.
What is (web) indexing?
This temple was burned to the ground, then rebuilt over 150 years later.
What is the Nauvoo Temple?
This is (probably) the most Southern temple, by latitude, in the world, on an island continent.
What is the Melbourne Australia temple?
This ordinance is done in two parts, but both are essential for its completion.
What is baptism and confirmation?
This booklet/pamphlet helps you to understand how standards and doctrine are related to temple worthiness.
What is the For the Strength of Youth guide?
This is the annual conference held in Salt Lake City centered on family history and tracing your ancestry through your family tree, from its branches to its roots.
What is RootsTech?