{"id":2616,"date":"2011-10-01T10:07:10","date_gmt":"2011-10-01T17:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/?p=2616"},"modified":"2011-10-01T20:44:24","modified_gmt":"2011-10-02T03:44:24","slug":"five-new-temple-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2011\/10\/01\/five-new-temple-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Five new temples announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Monson announced five new temples during conference today: Provo, Utah, USA; Barranquilla,\u00c2\u00a0Columbia; Durban, South Africa; Kinshasa,\u00c2\u00a0Democratic Republic of Congo; and Star Valley, Wyoming.<\/p>\n<p>The new Provo temple will be built on the location of the Provo Tabernacle, which burned down last year. It will be rebuilt as it was before, but will be used as a temple.<\/p>\n<p>As someone who has been following the growth of the church in Africa, I am particularly happy about the two new temples in Africa. The DRC temple will be the first in Central Africa.<\/p>\n<p>He also mentioned a temple in Paris, which technically was <a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom.lds.org\/article\/church-statement-on-temple-in-france\">announced in July<\/a>, but this was the first time it was brought up in conference.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, he made mention of the Patron Assistance Fund, which members can use to fund a single trip to the temple. This will be a great help to members who live so far from the temple and make such huge temporal sacrifices to make a single trip to the temple.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Monson announced five new temples during conference today: Provo, Utah, USA; Barranquilla,\u00c2\u00a0Columbia; Durban, South Africa; Kinshasa,\u00c2\u00a0Democratic Republic of Congo; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2011\/10\/01\/five-new-temple-announced\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Five new temples announced<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Five new temples announced<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2011\/10\/01\/five-new-temple-announced\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Five new temples announced\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"President Monson announced five new temples during conference today: Provo, Utah, USA; Barranquilla,\u00c2\u00a0Columbia; Durban, South Africa; Kinshasa,\u00c2\u00a0Democratic Republic of Congo; &hellip;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2011\/10\/01\/five-new-temple-announced\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Our Thoughts\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2011-10-01T17:07:10+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2011-10-02T03:44:24+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Kim Siever\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Kim Siever\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2011\/10\/01\/five-new-temple-announced\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2011\/10\/01\/five-new-temple-announced\/\",\"name\":\"Five new temples announced\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2011-10-01T17:07:10+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2011-10-02T03:44:24+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/#\/schema\/person\/99e996edc89affe5206808d3f65869d1\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2011\/10\/01\/five-new-temple-announced\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/\",\"name\":\"Our Thoughts\",\"description\":\"Thought-provoking commentary on life, politics, religion and social issues.\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/#\/schema\/person\/99e996edc89affe5206808d3f65869d1\",\"name\":\"Kim Siever\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/417c7b5f55d329bdd0f64ef4396831db?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/417c7b5f55d329bdd0f64ef4396831db?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Kim Siever\"},\"description\":\"Queer Mormon poet with radical political views. 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