Hello again, everyone! Today was a prime example of how things can change in terms of reported temple progress in a matter of a few short hours. In doing my second check of sources available to me on the subject of temple construction progress, I found the following additional updates:
In Rome Italy, scaffolding has been removed from the towers of the temple, and interior work is underway. After not having any progress reported on this temple for so long, this is tremendous news. There is still not sufficient reason (in my opinion) to assume that Rome will be completed by the end of 2018, but I could see that temple being dedicated in the very early months of 2019, as I already observed.
In Durban South Africa, roof decking has been attached to the trusses, signalling a major milestone in that temple's progress. The one question in my mind is what the sequence of events might wind up being for early 2019, with the dedication of at least three temples anticipated, along with the rededication of at least three others. It will be interesting to see how that shapes out.
And in Fortaleza Brazil, roof trusses are being set. It still seems likely that the dedication of this temple will not happen until mid-to-late 2019. But the construction efforts on this temple have stayed on track, so I cannot rule out the possibility that that event could happen sooner, all going well.
As with everything else I pass along on this blog, you can depend on my keeping an eye out for continued developments in the process of construction, and on my passing those along as soon as I am able to do so after learning about them.
That does it for this post. Any comments are, as always, welcome and appreciated. Thank you for the privilege of your time. Until my next post, I wish each one of you all the best and pray that the Lord will bless you all in all that you do.
Sunday, November 5, 2017
Additional Temple Progress
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Just to clarify, we are seeing roof trusses being set on the meetinghouse next to the Fortaleza Brazil Temple. The temple itself hasn't seen much change over the past couple of months.
ReplyDeleteThank you for that clarification, Rick! I had read that incorrectly and thus reported it inaccurately. I have fixed it on my report. As I have previously mentioned, sometimes I post here on my blog without double-checking for accuracy, and I have always appreciated how willing my readers are to point out such errors on my part. Ordinarily, I would go back after such correction and fix the post, but I will let my mistakes stand as evidence of just how imperfect I am. Thanks again, Rick!
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