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100
This is the general name for the small card that allows a Latter-day Saint to enter the temple.
What is a temple recommend?
100
With six granite spires and the angel Moroni on top, this world-famous temple stands on Temple Square in Utah.
What is the Salt Lake Temple?
100
This man, the 17th president of the Church, has announced more than 100 new temples since 2018.
Who is Russell M. Nelson?
100
Before heading west, the Saints built and dedicated a temple in this Illinois city in 1846.
What is Nauvoo?
100
This golden statue of a Book of Mormon prophet blowing a trumpet stands on top of the Atlanta Temple's spire.
Who is the angel Moroni?
100
While Israel wandered in the wilderness with Moses, the people worshipped in this portable tent temple they carried with them.
What is the tabernacle?
200
This principle asks members to give one-tenth of their income to the Lord.
What is tithing?
200
This temple is the house of the Lord closest to home for Latter-day Saints in Georgia.
What is the Atlanta Georgia Temple?
200
The Church has built temples on every continent except this frozen one, where no members live.
What is Antarctica?
200
This is the number of years it took the pioneers to build the Salt Lake Temple, from groundbreaking in 1853 to dedication in 1893.
What is 40?
200
The Atlanta Georgia Temple is located in this city, just north of Atlanta.
What is Sandy Springs?
200
This wise king, the son of David, built the first great temple in Jerusalem.
Who is Solomon?
300
Revealed to Joseph Smith as a law of health, this standard asks temple-recommend holders to avoid things like coffee, tea, alcohol, and tobacco.
What is the Word of Wisdom?
300
Visible from the Capital Beltway, this temple has six gleaming spires and is so recognizable that local traffic reporters just call it "the temple."
What is the Washington D.C. Temple?
300
In 1998, this Church president announced a plan to build many smaller temples so members worldwide wouldn't have to travel so far to reach one.
Who is Gordon B. Hinckley?
300
On April 3, 1836, just days after the Kirtland Temple's dedication, the Savior appeared, followed by these two Old Testament prophets who restored priesthood keys, along with Elias.
Who are Moses and Elijah?
300
The Atlanta Temple was the very first Latter-day Saint temple built in this region of the United States.
What is the Southeast?
300
Saying "my house shall be called the house of prayer," Jesus drove these people out of the temple in Jerusalem.
Who are the moneychangers?
400
Besides your bishop, this leader over your whole stake also interviews you before you can receive or renew a temple recommend.
Who is the stake president?
400
This was the very first temple built in this dispensation, dedicated in Ohio in 1836.
What is the Kirtland Temple?
400
In 2020, every temple in the world temporarily closed for the first time in Church history because of this global event.
What is the COVID-19 pandemic?
400
Dedicated in 1877, this was the first temple the Saints finished after arriving in Utah, located in the state's warm southern corner.
What is the St. George Utah Temple?
400
This apostle, then a counselor in the First Presidency, dedicated the Atlanta Temple in 1983 and later became the 15th president of the Church.
Who is Gordon B. Hinckley?
400
The beautiful temple standing in Jerusalem when Jesus taught there had been greatly expanded by this king.
Who is Herod?
500
This is how often a temple recommend must be renewed.
What is every two years?
500
Dedicated in 1956 on a hill above Santa Monica Boulevard, this California temple was the largest in the Church when it was built.
What is the Los Angeles California Temple?
500
In March 2024, the Church purchased the Kirtland Temple from this church, which had owned it for more than a century.
What is the Community of Christ?
500
Pioneer work crews used ox-drawn wagons to haul huge blocks of this stone more than 20 miles from Little Cottonwood Canyon to build the Salt Lake Temple.
What is granite?
500
This Church president, who also dedicated more temples than anyone before him at the time, announced the Atlanta Temple in 1980.
Who is Spencer W. Kimball?
500
In A.D. 70, about 40 years after Christ's ministry, this empire's army destroyed the temple in Jerusalem.
What is the Roman Empire?