São Paulo Brazil Temple

The São Paulo Temple ( officially the São Paulo Brazil Temple ) is the nineteenth built and the seventeenth active temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He stands in the Brazilian city of São Paulo and was the first temple of the church in South America, and the first with only one tower. The spire is 31 meters high.

The São Paulo Temple was announced on 1 March 1975. Twelve months later, construction began on. Hundreds of local Mormons came together to prepare the site by undergrowth, bushes and banana trees have been removed. Again, hundreds of voluntarily produced fifty thousand blocks of quartz stones, marble and white concrete for the façade of the temple. He was consecrated on 30 October 1978 by Spencer W. Kimball. The temple has two Ordinanzräume, four sealing rooms and a total floor area of 5,504 m².

On August 21, 2003, a gold- plated statue of the angel Moroni was placed during an extensive renovation and expansion. Gordon B. Hinckley dedicated the temple on February 22, again in 2004.