Washington D.C. Temple
The Washington DC Temple is the sixteenth temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter -day Saints. He was ordained in 1974 and is in Kensington ( Maryland), which he is the first temple east of the Mississippi since 1846. Before the consecration it was September 17, open to the public until November 2, 1974 and was visited in this life of about 750,000 people.
The temple was designed in a certain resemblance to the Salt Lake Temple out to be quickly identified as a temple of the Latter -day Saints can. With 15,000 square meters, it is the third largest LDS temple. He has six Endowmenträume and fourteen sealing rooms. The highest of the six towers is 88 meters tall with an angel Moroni. This is about six meters high and two tons. Due to its location in a largely untouched pristine forest, the temple gives a secluded feel. At the same time he is already visible from the busy highway number 495 on long distance and thus a well-known landmark.