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Tuesday, June 5, 2018

List of Temples That Will Close for an Extended Period of Time in 2018

Hello again, everyone! As some of you may be aware, an earlier report on this blog provided confirmation of the extended closure of the Edmonton Alberta Temple later this year. Then late last week, as I intended to start my second series of posts on potential future temples, my research led me to several temples that would also have an extended closure period at various points during 2018.

Note that I am only including those temples that will be closed for five weeks or longer. While 3- or 4-week closures are somewhat uncommon and therefore significant, a period of 5+ weeks indicates major work is being done that cannot occur during typical maintenance closures, which are generally only 2-3 weeks in duration.

The complete list of those extended periods of closure follows below. That does it for this post. Any and all 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 everything you do.


Edmonton Alberta Temple will close for 19 weeks (from Monday June 25-Monday November 5)
Salt Lake Temple will close for 5 weeks (from Monday July 2-Monday August 6)
Accra Ghana Temple will close for 11 weeks (from Monday July 23-Monday October 8)
St. Louis Missouri Temple will close for 10 weeks (from Monday July 30-Monday October 8)
Johannesburg South Africa Temple will close for 8 weeks (from Monday July 30-Monday September 24)
Bountiful Utah Temple will close for 6 weeks (from Monday August 6-Monday September 17)
Hermosillo Sonora Mexico Temple will close for 5 weeks (from Monday August 13-Monday September 17)
Seattle Washington Temple will close for roughly 12.5 weeks (from Sunday August 26-Thursday November 22)
Nauvoo Illinois Temple will close for 13 weeks (from Monday September 17-Monday December 17)
Aba Nigeria Temple will close for 10 weeks (from Monday October 22-Monday December 31)
Recife Brazil Temple will close for 12 weeks (from Monday September 3-Monday November 26)
San Antonio Texas Temple will close for 6 weeks (from Monday September 24-Monday November 5)
Billings Montana Temple will close for 10 weeks (from Monday November 5, 2018-Monday January 14, 2019)


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  1. Brian, Delight and kidsJune 5, 2018 at 12:47 PM

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  2. Brian, Delight and kidsJune 5, 2018 at 12:48 PM

    You may already be doing this but have you been checking the ldschurchtemples.org facebook page while the website is down? There have been two especially exciting things in the last couple of days: the "Holiness to the Lord" stone was installed at the Kinshasa temple and construction has begun on the Winnipeg temple. That would put the end of the 20 month timeline for Winnipeg at February of 2020.

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    1. James G. StokesJune 5, 2018 at 1:49 PM

      Interesting. I will have to check it out later today. I have been giving myself a bit of a break from Facebook while I have taken care of some personal health issues. But that is great news indeed.

      With that in mind, then the Kinshasa DR Congo Temple may have its' dedication announced soon. And if construction has begun on the Winnipeg Manitoba Temple, then that means we will likely see the dedication occur in early 2020.

      I will be sure to look into all of that when I can later today. Thanks again for letting me know, and for taking time to comment.

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  3. James AndersonJune 5, 2018 at 12:54 PM

    Provo has regularly over the last 20 years closed for six weeks during the Summer maintenance period, you can get a lot done in that amount of time, and everything from removing the escalators to adding that big mural in the chapel, changing the light fixtures in 2nd and 3rd floor hallways, and even sealing room chandeliers, is done during those extended closures there.

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    1. James G. StokesJune 5, 2018 at 1:53 PM

      My thanks to you, James Anderson, for taking time to comment. I had been vaguely aware of the extended closures for the Provo Temple (as I believe those have been discussed on this blog previously), and if an extended period of closure is needed to do all of the things you mentioned, that could also be true for the other temples I mentioned above.

      I guess the length of the closures directly relate to the amount of work that needs to be done. I was more than a little surprised that the Church is several of the temples in certain areas sharing some of the periods of their closure times. This may make it difficult for many Saints to get to the nearest temple, but I am sure there is a good reason for doing it this way. Thank you, James Anderson, for taking time to comment.

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  4. L. Chris JonesJune 5, 2018 at 4:13 PM

    In the middle 1990's the St. George Temple had an extended closure for almost a year. They even took down the steeple with a helicopter. There was a major cleaning and other updates. They only useded endowed members and did not need a rededication.

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    1. James G. StokesJune 5, 2018 at 5:13 PM

      Thanks for that comment, Chris! I believe I may have known about that particular closure. Whatever the Church has planned for the extended closures of these temples, it is interesting that so many of them will be closed for so long, some of them at around the same time. It is especially interesting that, for the 3 currently-operating temples on the African continent, the closures of two of those three will overlap on two occasions, leaving the African Saints with only one operating temple during that time.

      Whatever the Church has planned for these closures, as I learn more, I will pass that information along. Thanks again, Chris!

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