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The Meridian Idaho Temple is a temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Meridian, Idaho. The intent to build the temple was announced by church president Thomas S. Monson on April 4, 2011, during the church's semi-annual general conference .
The temple is then dedicated as a "House of the Lord," after which only members twelve years of age and older [1] who hold a valid temple recommend are permitted to enter. Weekly worship services are not held in temples, but ordinances that are part of Latter-day Saint worship are performed within temples.
Many temples, beginning with the Idaho Falls Temple, were built with the center-spire design. This was the first temple in years to be constructed with any sort of spire or tower. The Oakland Temple is an unusual variation on the center spire design as it incorporates four additional spires—one on each corner of the building—for a total of ...
The Boise mission was effectively cut in half, with the stakes in Eagle, Star, and Meridian transferred to the Nampa mission. The Boise mission lost a lot of territory on the west, but gained much more on the east by taking in the stakes that cover the Twin Falls, Burley and Rupert regions.
Church members consider temples to be the most sacred structures on earth. The LDS Church has 367 temples in various phases, which includes 202 dedicated temples (193 operating and 9 previously-dedicated, but closed for renovation [ 1 ] ), 3 scheduled for dedication , 51 under construction , 2 scheduled for groundbreaking , [ 2 ] and 112 others ...
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The Twin Falls Temple held an open house and conducted tours from July 11, 2008 until August 15, 2008, excluding Sundays. [4] The church reported that visitors during the open house totaled nearly 160,000, approximately 60 percent of whom were church members. [5] The temple was dedicated on August 24, 2008 in 4 sessions. [4]