In 2003, the city of Bartlett, Tennessee, awarded the Memphis Tennessee Temple the "America in Bloom" award. The award came as a surprise to Church representatives as they had not entered the temple in the contest. However, contest committee members can enter buildings they felt should have b...
The Memphis Tennessee Temple is the 80th operating temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. "The presence of the temple in the community will spark the Spirit of Christ in hundreds of people,"[1] promised Elder Gordon T. Watts of the Seventy at the groundbreaking ...