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The following is comprised of snippets taken from the online journaling of Tony Kimball, 2007.
In May, 1984, the wards of Boston Stake were reorganized, and the Mormon Arlington Ward was formed, with Bob Chandler as the new bishop. Tony Kimball went through the 1963 Cambridge Ward Directory, and found several families who were still living locally in 2007, including the Chandlers. The old Cambridge Ward included Boston, Brookline, Cambridge, Somerville, Arlington, Belmont, Watertown, Newton, Waltham, Medford, Chelsea, and Everett. That’s 13 towns and cities. There have been at least three dozen church units organized in that same area since 1967.
The Boston Stake was split and the Hingham Stake was formed. The old Boston Stake then covered about the same area as the original Cambridge Branch (a group of members too small to be a ward). Though many members of the Latter-Day Saint wards and stakes in the Boston area come from a variety of vocations... Read the rest of this article »
The beautiful modern, granite-faced, Mormon Boston temple was announced on September 30, 1995, and was erected to the Lord on the gently-rising Belmont, Massachusetts’ 8-acre lot, and is comprised of about 69,000 square feet of dedicated and holy ordinance rooms, baptistery, sealing rooms, administrative and waiting areas. The groundbreaking was presided over by Mormon apostle, Elder Richard G. Scott, on June 13, 1997, during a cloudburst from the heavens; Mormon Prophet and President, Gordon B. Hinckley dedicated the temple as the 100th mini-temple to be built after his ambitious vision in April 1998 of dotting the land with smaller, accessible temples for the gathering and redemption of God’s people. “We are moving on a scale the likes of which we have never seen before,” President Hinckley said in his closing remarks in the April 1998 general conference. This is when his vision of accelerated temple-building was shared from the pulpit,... Read the rest of this article »
One of the main characteristics of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon Church) is the work performed in the Church’s holy temples. This work sets apart the Mormon Church from every other religion on the face of the earth.
“The temple is a place of instruction where profound truths pertaining to the Kingdom of God are unfolded. It is a place of peace where minds can be centered upon things of the spirit and the worries of the world can be laid aside. In the temple we take covenants to obey the laws of God, and promises are made to us, conditioned always on our faithfulness, which extend into eternity”
The Boston Massachusetts What is a Mormon Temple?)
Usually, when the Mormon Church announces plans to build a new temple, there is initial push-back from the community. Traffic concerns, the height of the steeple, land use, must always be addressed. But in every case, after a temple is built, it becomes a blessing to the... Read the rest of this article »
