page_title: Temple architecture (LDS Church)
section_title: Small modern single-spire design
hierarchical_section_title: Temple architecture (LDS Church) / Small modern single-spire design
caption_attribution_description: English: The Sydney Australia Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Carlingford, New South Wales.
context_page_description: On December 27, 1832, two years after the organization of the Church of Christ, the movement's founder, Joseph Smith, stated he received a revelation that called upon church members to restore the practice of temple worship. The Latter Day Saints in Kirtland, Ohio were commanded to:
  "Establish a house, even a house of prayer, a house of fasting, a house of faith, a house of learning, a house of glory, a house of order, a house of God."
  The largest of the denominations that have come from the Latter Day Saint movement, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) view temples as the fulfillment of a prophecy found in Malachi 3:1.
  The Kirtland Temple was the first temple of the Latter Day Saint movement and the only temple completed in Smith's lifetime. Its unique design was replicated on a larger scale with the Nauvoo Temple and in subsequent temples built by the LDS Church. As the needs of the church have changed, so has temple architecture—from large castellic structures adorned with celestial symbols, to smaller, simpler designs, often derived from a standard set of plans.
context_section_description: In the mid-1970s, beginning with the São Paulo Brazil Temple (17) and the Tokyo Japan Temple (18), the church designed temples based on a more chapel-like design: square buildings with a smaller spire. These first two temples had two ordinance rooms, but because there was no set plan during this time, the temples have four and five sealing rooms, respectively.
  Shortly after these temples were built the church built a larger version: the Atlanta Georgia Temple (21). It has four ordinance rooms and five sealing rooms and a floor area of 35,360 sq ft (3,285 m²). Later the church would repeat this pattern with two similar temples: the Denver Colorado Temple (40) and the much larger Toronto Ontario Temple (44), each with six sealing rooms.
  The Apia Samoa Temple (22) was built at this time, but during a renovation, the building caught fire and was destroyed. It was immediately rebuilt with a larger design, but still with a single spire. It has two ordinance rooms and two sealing rooms, with a total floor area of 18,691 sq ft (1,736.5 m²).
  Similar two ordinance room temples are the Nuku'alofa Tonga Temple (23) and the Santiago Chile Temple (24), with three sealing rooms, and the Papeete Tahiti Temple (25) and the Sydney Australia Temple (28), with two ordinance rooms.
caption: The Sydney Australia Temple
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