What’s Up?

“What’s Up?” New Era, Feb. 2013, 44–45

What’s Up?

Temple Trivia

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temples

Test your knowledge of temples and learn a bit more along the way. Use only the bolded portions of the full temple names in the list on the right to complete the puzzle.

Anchorage Alaska Temple

Apia Samoa Temple

Johannesburg South Africa Temple

Kyiv Ukraine Temple

Laie Hawaii Temple

Lima Perú Temple

London England Temple

Manhattan New York Temple

Oakland California Temple

Oquirrh Mountain Utah Temple

Salt Lake Temple

Santiago Chile Temple

Sydney Australia Temple

Taipei Taiwan Temple

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crossword puzzle

Across

Door handles in the shape of the Statue of Liberty torch can be found throughout this temple.
With the dedication of this temple in 1985, there was now a Latter-day Saint temple on every habitable continent of the world.
The angel Moroni statue survived a fire that destroyed the rest of the temple in 2003. When the temple was rebuilt and rededicated in 2005, the angel Moroni statue was put back in its place.
The largest temple in the Church in terms of square footage, this was also the first temple to be open to the public before its dedication.
This temple was the first to be built in a Spanish-speaking country.
This temple serves more stakes than any other temple.
For the first time ever, Sunday Church meetings were canceled statewide in Utah to allow members to attend the broadcast dedication of this temple.
A Latter-day Saint mission home, which once stood on the same site, needed to be leveled to make room for this temple.

Down

This temple, the first on its continent, sits on property formerly used as a school for boys.
Carvings of the Big Dipper and the North Star can be found in one of the exterior granite walls of this temple.
This temple was the first to be built in the former Soviet Union.
Two 35-foot-tall sculpted panels of the Savior decorate the exterior of this temple.
Crushed rock and coral were used in creating the concrete exterior of this temple.
In 1215, the Magna Carta was signed in the same county (Surrey County) where this temple stands today.