Fort Lauderdale Florida Temple Dedicated May 2014

The Fort Lauderdale Florida Temple was dedicated on May 5th, 2014 by President Dieter F. Uchtdorf.

It is the Church's 143rd operating temple. The Fort Lauderdale Temple will be the second temple built in Florida.

The Fort Lauderdale measures 28,000 sq. ft. The next closet temple, in Orlando Florida is 2.5 times larger at 70,000 sq ft. built in 1994 - the 46th temple.

Coverage of the dedication service can be found on lds.org

More information and maps and pictures can be found at www.ldschurchtemples.com/fortlauderdale/

The six Florida stakes in the new temple district

It is 215 miles from Orlando to Fort Lauderdale

It is 435 miles from Orlando to Atlanta, GA

The LDS Church created 2 new stakes in April 2014

The LDS Church created 2 new stakes in April 2014 (both were in the US)

One new stake was created in New York City.  There are now 16 Stakes in New York and 2 temples.

One new stake was created in Utah.  There are now 570 Stakes in Utah and 14 temples (with three more under construction.)

14. Lynbrook New York - April 13th, 2014
15. Bluffdale Utah South - April 20th, 2014

From ldschurchgrowth.blogspot.com, later confirmed at http://www.deseretnews.com/faith/lds-church-news

There are now 3,069 stakes worldwide, with 1,526 in the US (49.8%) and 1,543 outside the US.

The Lynbrook New York stake is personally gratifying to me. My parents moved to New York in 1960 and there was just one stake covering about 12 million people in the "tri-state" area.  Now there are 15 stakes and one district.  When I was a youth, I lived in a branch, that then became a stake. It is amazing. We were in the London Temple District but Salt Lake City was easier to get to. Now there is the Manhattan temple in what used to be my stake center and temples being built in both Hartford, CT and Philadelphia, PA

Stake	Temple District	Create date	State
New York New York Stake	Manhattan New York Temple	9-Dec-1934	NY
Morristown New Jersey Stake	Manhattan New York Temple	28-Feb-1960	NJ
Hartford Connecticut Stake	Boston Massachusetts Temple	18-Sep-1966	CT
East Brunswick New Jersey Stake	Manhattan New York Temple	26-Mar-1967	NJ
Plainview New York Stake	Manhattan New York Temple	20-Aug-1967	NY
Albany New York Stake	Boston Massachusetts Temple	8-Jun-1969	NY
Yorktown New York Stake	Manhattan New York Temple	30-Apr-1978	NY
Caldwell New Jersey Stake	Manhattan New York Temple	12-Apr-1981	NJ
New Haven Connecticut Stake	Boston Massachusetts Temple	30-Aug-1981	CT
Brooklyn New York Stake	Manhattan New York Temple	14-May-1991	NY
Scotch Plains New Jersey Stake	Manhattan New York Temple	15-Sep-1996	NJ
Newburgh New York Stake	Manhattan New York Temple	2-Mar-1997	NY
Westchester New York Stake	Manhattan New York Temple	9-Nov-1997	NY
Paterson New Jersey District	Manhattan New York Temple	16-May-1999	NJ
Queens New York Stake	Manhattan New York Temple	21-Nov-2004	NY
Lynbrook New York Stake	Manhattan New York Temple	13-Apr-2014	NY

Here is a map of the Lynbrook stake (East part of Queens and Western Long Island)

Lynbrook boundaries in thick light blue, other stake boundaries in green - gospel rolls forth. The LDS church doubles about every 18-20 years, so in my lifetime (born 1964), it has grown seven-fold from 2.2 million to 15.2 million.

The Bluffdale Utah South stake is right at the point of the mountain on the west side of I-15 and is a short driving distance to four temples.