MormonTimes.com: Curitiba temple, Brazil's fifth, opens for public tours

Members, friends and residents of the Curitiba, Brazil, and surrounding areas have had the opportunity to walk through the fifth temple to be constructed in Brazil.

This new temple, which will be dedicated June 1, will serve members in Curitiba, a city of approximately 1.8 million residents, its surrounding metropolitan area, interior cities of the state of Parana, and the neighboring state of Santa Catarina. Approximately 25,000 members of the LDS Church live in metropolitan Curitiba. There are 37,000 Latter-day Saints in the state of Parana and more than a million throughout Brazil.

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