Palmyra NY Temple - Announcement Info. The Palmyra Temple, the 100th temple to be built by the faith since its founding in 1830, will be on the border between Manchester, Ontario County, and Palmyra, Wayne County. It is expected to regularly draw thousands of Mormons from throughout Western and Central New York. Unlike the Sunday-meeting chapels common in everyday Mormon worship, temples are the sole places Mormons can obtain the key rites of the church.
Temples are where marriages and other special rituals are performed.
Mormon temples are few and far between. Currently, only 54 operate in the world, although there are plans to build 45 more, not including the Palmyra Temple. D.C. About 6,000 Mormons live locally, part of a growing population of nearly 60,000 in New York. The building of the local temple has the approval of the worldwide leader of the 11-million member church, President Gordon B. Hinckley, whom Mormons hold as God's prophet on earth. Cook made the temple announcement to an excited gathering of local church leaders and members on Sunday night.