Kansas City Missouri Temple
In the early days of the Church, Latter-day Saints attempted to build two temples in Missouri—one in Independence, Missouri, and one farther north in Far West. Both attempts failed due to persecution against the Mormons. Currently, there is one functioning temple in St. Louis, Missouri. Church members are now found in every major city in the Midwest. Kansas City's first stake was established in 1956. Today there are approximately 100,000 members in Missouri and Kansas organized into 21 stakes (LDS Newsroom, October, 2008).
The groundbreaking and site dedication for the Kansas City Missouri Mormon Temple were held on 8 May 2010 and conducted by Ronald A. Rasband, a Seventy in the General Authorities of the LDS Church.
The public was invited to visit the temple during an open house from Saturday, 7 April 2012, until Saturday, 21 April 2012, excluding Sundays. During the open house, there is no charge to tour the temple, but tickets could be obtained from kansascitymormontemple.org.
The temple was scheduled to be formally dedicated on Sunday, 6 May 2012, in three sessions. The dedicatory sessions are broadcast to congregations of the Church within the temple district. Those in the temple district who witness the dedicatory sessions via closed circuit television do so in selected meetinghouses, and through an interview with their bishop or one of his counselors to determine their worthiness, present a conditional recommend to do so. In conjunction with the dedication of the temple, a cultural celebration featuring music and dance was scheduled for Saturday, 5 May 2012, and held at the Municipal Auditorium in downtown Kansas City, Missouri.
The address of the Kansas City Missouri Temple is 7001 Searcy Creek Parkway, Kansas City, Missouri, United States.
