What would happen if a Mormon Temple was sold to another religion?
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11 May 2009 Comments:
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djericho21 asked:
Like, say that all the Mormons in Panama City moved away, and the LDS church needed to recuperate funds and decided to sell the temple there. How would that religion retrofit the temple for conventional religious practices?
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Like, say that all the Mormons in Panama City moved away, and the LDS church needed to recuperate funds and decided to sell the temple there. How would that religion retrofit the temple for conventional religious practices?
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16 Responses to “What would happen if a Mormon Temple was sold to another religion?”
May 14th, 2009 at 2:57 am
That wouldn’t happen.
But IF it happened the LDS church would be sure to remove all the sacred things in the temple.
May 15th, 2009 at 8:13 pm
Morons I mean Mormons would take it back
May 17th, 2009 at 3:18 am
We would all worship me, naturally.
May 19th, 2009 at 10:05 pm
You could have a ceremony of exorcism done, and then a consecration ceremony.
May 21st, 2009 at 6:08 am
It already happened, although it was not sold.. It was taken over.. such is the way of Christianity in the past.
May 23rd, 2009 at 4:28 pm
Somebody would be RICHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!
May 26th, 2009 at 7:32 pm
Happens all the time – people will have to accept the change.
May 28th, 2009 at 2:26 pm
It just wouldn’t be their responsibility… they can deconsecrate it and then move on… the ground would no longer be hallowed…. the best venue in new york for a show I went to was in an old church in manhattan… it was called the avalon. it was incredible…
May 29th, 2009 at 1:45 am
Uh i think they would take it down or just leave it up as a mormon temple for the few visitors that attend or the missionaries that live there. They wouldnt sell it. I promise haha.
May 31st, 2009 at 3:27 pm
This happened in Kirkland and in Illinois, just as it happened in Jerusalem. The building is no longer consecrated.
June 1st, 2009 at 10:48 am
We don’t even sell our chapels anymore after we are done with them. They are simply demolished.
Temples are too sacred in our religion…even in the most frustrating circumstances we wouldn’t have the heart to sell them. They could only be forcefully taken, as has happened twice in the past.
The Kirtland temple (which was more preparatory, still stands today and belongs to the “RLDS.”) The Nauvoo Temple (which was complete in providing for all the rituals) was forcefully abandoned, yet mercifully an hateful arson burned it down (I say mercifully in that God allowed a wicked man to do what the saints could not bear to do.)
So, end of story, if push came to shove we would demolish it and sell the lot.
June 1st, 2009 at 3:37 pm
Actually we do sell the chapels. but there is no temple in panama city florida. but we do not sell temples. if one was condemned it would be demolished.
June 4th, 2009 at 6:14 am
Joseph Smith would rise from his grave and exact bloody revenge on all responsible. First he would tear their limbs off and then he’d behead them.
June 6th, 2009 at 7:26 am
The LDS Church would not retrofit the temple for the practices of another religion because in the first place, they would never give up the temple or property willingly. In their eyes, the temple is too sacred to be sold for money. If the temple was to be forcefully taken from them, they’d likely take all their documents and records with them and leave the temple and those stealing it in the hands of God.
June 9th, 2009 at 10:58 am
Assuming that did happen–and in all honesty, it wouldn’t, because our temples are sacred to us and would never be sold–I’m not sure that the temple building would actually be of any use to another faith. The rooms are usually very small, and though I suppose walls could be knocked out, I don’t think it would really be cost effective to turn a temple into a regular meeting house. Besides, the rooms are also arranged for the work we do, and even if they were expanded, people would have to walk through several other rooms (and occasionally up stairs) to get to a place that would be even remotely suited for a regular congregation to hold a meeting. It really wouldn’t work unless the entire temple was gutted, and if someone is going to go to that much effort, I think they’d probably just start from scratch and build something more suited to their needs. It’d be cheaper and easier.
June 9th, 2009 at 5:18 pm
I don’t know about temples.
We had a chapel here, tho, that was so close to a large hospital that when the hospital was enlarging, they bought up all the property in the area, including the chapel. They were going to tear it down like all the others (mostly houses) they bought, but when they looked the building over and realized it was built better than any building they were going to put there, they merely gutted the inside of the building and remodeled it as they needed, but kept most of the building intact.
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