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1st International Temple was almost a Temple Ship!

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Trivia question for you:  what was the first LDS temple outside the United States?  The answer is below but see if you can guess before you read the answer.  In our final conversation with BYU Church History professor Dr. Richard Bennett, we learned that this temple marked the end of gathering the church to Utah, and the beginning of creating temples away from the center of Mormonism.

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Temples were magnets and were a powerful factor in people gathering from Europe and inland to the Rocky Mountains.  Originally they went to Nauvoo.  The saints wanted to be where the temple is.

After 1900 and the beginning of an understanding that we should stay where we are and gather to the local units and gather in their own nations, you begin to see temples now moving out from Utah.  I think the first major expression of that would be the Cardston Temple.

We also discussed the Temple Ship, an idea mentioned in Greg Prince’s biography of President David O. McKay!

Yes I know that story, like a Hope Ship.  It had a lot of traction at one time.  It’s pretty hard to keep sacred a ship though, {chuckles} and I think that was the thing that sunk it, the idea that, oh we can have this boat that would be a dedicated temple.  The reason it had traction was you could go to places where the saints were. You could go to the islands and different countries all over the world.  But I think, I don’t know.  I remember studying that when I was studying the life of David O. McKay years ago, and I wrote the history of Brigham Young University, shadow boat history.  This was going to be difficult to keep a ship afloat that’s a temple and keep it sacred, going all over the place, and having it serviced and everything else, plus the cost.

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Dr. Richard E. Bennett discusses the temple ship, once proposed by David O. McKay to service international Church members!
Dr. Richard E. Bennett discusses the temple ship, once proposed by David O. McKay to service international Church members!

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  • Date: April 19, 2017
  • Guest: Richard E. Bennett
  • Theology: Temple Ordinances
  • LDS Temples
  • Historical Mentions Mormon History
  • Tags: active Mormons, Cardston Temple, Church History, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church of Latter Day Saints, Dr Richard Bennett, GT Podcast, iTunes, Latter-day Saints, temple, Temple Ship
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