A new temple in Campinas, Brazil, was announced by President Gordon B. Hinckley at the opening session of conference April 5.
Campinas is located in southern Brazil, about 50 miles northwest of Sao Paulo, where a large number of members live, "where the need is so great." This is the third temple announced for Brazil and will be the 66th temple in use, under construction or planned. The Sao Paulo Temple has been in operation since it was dedicated in 1978. Ground was broken for the Recife Brazil Temple in November.The Campinas Brazil Temple District will include 60,000 members in 20 stakes and one mission district. Both this temple and the Recife temple are in the design stage.
President Hinckley also noted that a temple will be built in Albuquerque, N.M. (See Church News, April 5, 1997, p. 3.)
Commenting about future temples, he said: "Other sites are under consideration. I hope to see temples so located that members of the Church can travel to one of these sacred houses within a reasonable distance of their homes.
"Though I live with it, this matter of temple construction is a thing of awesome wonder to me. We are trying to build in such a way and in such places across the world that these houses of the Lord may stand and serve through the millennium."
President Hinckley also recapped the current progress of temples previously announced:
Dedication dates have been given for the St. Louis Missouri and Vernal Utah temples, and construction is moving forward on schedule on the Preston England, Bogota Colombia, Madrid Spain, Guayaquil Ecuador, Cochabamba Bolivia, Santo Domingo Dominican Republic and Recife Brazil temples. The approval process is moving forward for a temple in Boston, Mass., and planning, though delayed, continues for a temple in Nashville, Tenn. Preliminary work is underway on temples in Billings, Mont., White Plains, N.Y., and Monterrey, Mexico. The search for suitable property continues in Venezuela.
