Gila Valley Arizona Temple
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| Gila Valley Arizona Temple | ||
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| Number | TBD | edit data |
| Announcement | 2008-04-26 | |
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The Gila Valley Arizona Temple is the unofficial name of a planned temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, to be constructed near the communities of Thatcher and Safford in Arizona. The announcement of the temple on April 26, 2008 came concurrently with the Gilbert Arizona Temple, and together were the first new temples announced since Thomas S. Monson assumed responsibilities as the President of the LDS church.[1]
The new temple will serve the significant LDS population in the eastern part of Arizona's Gila River Valley, who currently must travel to the Mesa Arizona Temple 150 miles to the west. Thatcher, which was founded by LDS pioneers in 1881, was home to former LDS church president Spencer W. Kimball during his youth in the early part of the 1900s.[2]
[edit] See also
- List of temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- List of temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by geographic region
