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The plan to build a temple in Ukraine were announced by the LDS Church on 20 July 1998. [7] The announcement was unique in that it came eight years after missionaries entered the country, [8] and was the first temple outside the United States to be dedicated within twenty years of the church entering the country. [6]
This would be the second temple in Eastern Europe, after the Freiberg Germany Temple, which was the closest temple for Ukrainian members. [3] However, construction was postponed due to delays in acquiring the needed land. [10] Ground was finally broken in 2007, [11] and the temple was completed and dedicated on August 29, 2010. [12]
1848 October – The Nauvoo Temple in Nauvoo, Illinois was destroyed in an act of arson. [1]1850 September 15 – In Spalding, England, a mob assaulted and overpowered a Church member who was guarding entry to a meetinghouse in use by fellow Latter-day Saints, compelling him inside; the mob then attacked the building and forced entry thereinto.
The two-week Russian occupation left the village shattered and the church itself — a modern replacement for an older structure — damaged while still under construction. It’s one of 129 war-damaged Ukrainian religious sites recorded by UNESCO, the United Nations’ cultural organization. “It’s solid concrete,” the priest said.
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The list of damaged cultural sites during the Russian invasion of Ukraine is a list of cultural sites in Ukraine that have been verified by United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as damaged and/or destroyed during the Russian invasion of Ukraine (that started on 24 February 2022).
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