SALT LAKE CITY — Open house and dedication dates for the San Salvador El Salvador Temple have been announced by the LDS Church for later this summer.
The public open house will run from Friday, July 1 through Saturday, July 23, excluding Sundays. The temple will be dedicated Sunday, Aug. 21 in three sessions.
The dates for Central America's latest LDS temple were announced Wednesday by the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Originally announced in November 2007, the San Salvador El Salvador Temple will be the church's 135th operating temple throughout the world, with another 22 announced or under construction.
The dedicatory sessions will be broadcast to LDS congregations within the temple district.
As with other recent temple dedications, a cultural celebration of music and dance will be held, scheduled for Saturday, Aug. 20.
The church's 2010 statistics show a membership of 105,501 individuals in El Salvador, a country of more than 7 million people.
Missionaries entering from Mexico first arrived in the country in 1949. The first of El Salvador's current 17 stakes was organized in San Salvador in 1973, with the first of two current missions also established in the country's capital city.
The El Salvador temple will the fourth in the church's Central America Area, along with temples in Guatemala, Costa Rica and Panama.
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