5/15/18 - Guayaquil Ecuador (GUAYA)
58th Temple in the Church
6th Temple in South America
1st temple in Ecuador
Announcement: 31 March 1982 Groundbreaking and Site Dedication: 10 August 1996 by Richard G. Scott Public Open House: 23 June–17 July 1999 Dedication: 1–2 August 1999 by Gordon B. Hinckley
The Guayaquil Ecuador Temple’s floor plan is identical to that of the Bogotá Colombia Temple and features the same Brazilian granite on the exterior walls. Like the Bogotá Temple, the Guayaquil Temple experienced lengthy delays in the approval and construction process, and ground wasn’t broken for the temple until fourteen years after the temple announcement. President Russell M. Nelson, then a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, said that the opening of the Guayaquil Temple was “a very important hinge point in the history of [Ecuador].”
Sources: Photos from lds.org, facts and dates from ldschurchtemples.org and from the book Temples of the New Millennium by Chad S. Hawkins.
