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Show MORMON LEADER ANNOUNCES PLANS FOR NEW TEMPLE IN OAKLAND Plans for construction of a new Mormon Temple (abovejl on a hilltop hill-top site in Oakland overlooking San Francisco Bay, were announced here this week by David 0. McKay, inset, 87-year-old president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Latter-day Saints. This will be the 15th temple the 1,700,000-member organization or-ganization has built during its 130-year 130-year history. Others, now in use, are in Salt Lake City, St. George, Logan and Manti, Utah; Laie, Oahu, Hawaii; Cardston, Alberta, Canada; Mesa, Ariz.; Idaho Falls, Idaho; Bern, Switzerland; Los Angeles, An-geles, Calif.; Hamilton, New Zealand, Zea-land, and London, England. Earlier temples were built in Kirtland, Ohio, and Nauvoo, 111. Mormon temples are not used for general worship (the church has several thousand ward and stake chapels and tabernacles for this purpose) but only for sacred ceremonies, including in-cluding marriages and other sealing ordinances, vacarious baptism for the dead, and priesthood ordinations. ordina-tions. The Oakland temple will serve members living in some 19 stakes in northern California and adjacent areas, and the Northern California Mission. |