Bonus post: Video or slideshow of Sapporo Japan temple open house

For those who are curious about the new LDS Japanese temple in Sapporo,...


Sorry, it won't let me save and embed the Video, so you have to go to the link instead.

Click here: http://www.ldschurch.jp/events/sapporo-temple/video

Just a note:  This is a Japanese (LDS Church official) webpage.  If you got Google Chrome, you can go to the URL bar, look on the far right, and there is a little symbol next to the star.  Click on that and it will translate the page for you.  You might need to go into  your settings to add a language, or it might automatically detect it and do that for you.   However, you can just click on the video too and skip all the language issues (which aren't necessary to watching the video). 

(picture from www.mormonnewsroom.com)

There's a temple slideshow if you prefer that over the video:Click here: http://www.mormonnewsroom.org/article/sapporo-japan-temple-to-open-for-public-tours 



Here are a few facts about the new temple in Sapporo (from http://www.mormonnewsroom.org/article/sapporo-japan-temple-to-open-for-public-tours):

Following the public open house, the temple will be formally dedicated on Sunday, August 21, 2016, in three dedicatory sessions. The day before, youth of the Church in the temple area will perform in a cultural celebration honoring Japan’s history as well as the history of the Church in the country.

The temple is located at 1-6-1 Ooyachi-Nishi, Atsubetsu-ku Sapporo-shi, Hokkaido, Japan.

The 48,480-square-foot Sapporo Japan Temple sits on 9.8 acres with the statue of the angel Moroni on top of its single spire. The temple will serve more than 8,000 Latter-day Saints who live on the island of Hokkaido and in Aomori, the northernmost prefecture of the main island of Honshu.

The Sapporo Japan Temple is the Church’s third temple in Japan and, when dedicated, becomes the 151st operating temple worldwide. The two other temples in Japan are located in Tokyo(dedicated in 1980) and Fukuoka (dedicated in 2000).

Here's another article following up about the dedication which occurred on August 21, 2016  https://www.lds.org/church/news/sapporo-japan-temple-is-a-fulfillment-of-repeated-prophecy?lang=eng&_r=1&cid=HP_MO_22-8-2016_dCN_fEVT_xLIDyL2-4_