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25 years ago
"Standing as an oasis of calm amid the noise in a downtown business district, the Taipei Taiwan Temple was dedicated Nov. 17 and 18," reported an article in the Nov. 25, 1984, Church News.
The temple was dedicated in five sessions by President Gordon B. Hinckley, then second counselor in the First Presidency. The article stated that 2,575 members attended the dedicatory sessions.
The article quoted President Hinckley: "This house, built on what was once prison property, will open the prison doors of the veil of death."
He also said, according to the article, that in all of Taiwan and Hong Kong there were only 500 temple recommend holders. "There are only 500 to do the work of millions."
He continued: "There is so much to be done. The laborers are relatively few. There is no other place where a temple has been built where so few are eligible to use it."
The temple served Taiwan and Hong Kong.
