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The Cardston Alberta Temple (formerly the Alberta Temple) is the eighth constructed and sixth of the still-operating 
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at ChurchofJesusChristTemples.org * {{Authority control 1923 establishments in Alberta 20th-century Latter Day Saint temples Buildings designed to replicate Solomon's Temple Cardston National Historic Sites in Alberta Religious buildings and structures on the National Historic Sites of Canada register Churches completed in 1923 Temples (LDS Church) in Alberta Buildings and structures in Cardston County
temple
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s of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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. Located in Cardston
Cardston is a town in Alberta, Canada. It was first settled in 1887 by members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) who travelled from Utah, via the Macleod-Benton Trail, to present-day Alberta in one of the century' ...
, Alberta
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, it is the church's oldest temple outside the United States
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. It is one of eight temples that does not have an angel Moroni statue, and one of six without spires, similar to Solomon's Temple
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. It is also one of only two temples the church built in the shape of a cross, the other being the Laie Hawaii Temple
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.
History
The temple was announced on June 27, 1913, and was built on Temple Hill, an eight-acre plot given to the church byCharles Ora Card
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Charles Ora Card (November 5, 1839 – September 9, 1906) was the American founder of Cardston, Alberta, the first Mormon settlement in Canada. He has been referred to as "Canada's Brigham Young". Richard E. Bennett"Canada: From Strugglin ...
. The site expanded to more than in the mid-1950s. The granite used in building the temple was hand-hewn from quarries in Nelson
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, British Columbia
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Originally dedicated on August 26, 1923, by church president
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, an addition was rededicated on July 2, 1962 by Hugh B. Brown. The first temple president Temple president is a priesthood leadership position in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). A temple president's primary responsibility is to supervise the affairs of an LDS temple in both an administrative and spiritual ...
was Edward J. Wood, who served from 1923 to 1948. The temple was renovated in the 1990s, and Gordon B. Hinckley
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rededicated it on June 22, 1991.
The temple has four ordinance rooms, five sealing rooms, and a floor area of .
In 1992, the temple was declared a National Historic Site, and a plaque was dedicated in 1995.
In 2020, like all the church's other temples, the Cardston Alberta Temple was closed in response to the coronavirus pandemic
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Presidents or matrons
Other than Wood, other notable temple presidents, or matrons, include Merlin R. Lybbert (1994–97); Elaine L. Jack (1997–2000); andArdeth G. Kapp
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(2000–03). As of 2018, D. Wesley Balderson is the president.
See also
* Comparison of temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints * Torleif S. Knaphus — sculpted the largebas relief
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titled ''Christ the Fountainhead'' on the exterior of the building and also the life-size oxen holding the baptism font
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- painted murals and other art work in the temple
* List of National Historic Sites of Canada in Alberta
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* 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
* Temple architecture (Latter-day Saints)
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* The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Canada
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References
Further reading
* * * * * (Has accompanying color photographs of interior of Cardston Alberta Temple) *External links
Cardston Alberta Temple Official site
at ChurchofJesusChristTemples.org * {{Authority control 1923 establishments in Alberta 20th-century Latter Day Saint temples Buildings designed to replicate Solomon's Temple Cardston National Historic Sites in Alberta Religious buildings and structures on the National Historic Sites of Canada register Churches completed in 1923 Temples (LDS Church) in Alberta Buildings and structures in Cardston County