Mormons or members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are a temple building people. Right now there are 144 operating temples worldwide with 14 under construction and 12 more announced but not yet started.
These beautiful and sacred buildings are not used for Sunday services. Rather faithful church members attend the temple during the week to participate in ordinances designed to unite their families forever and help them return to God. We are blessed with a temple right here just a few miles from our home.
While traveling in Myanmar we went to an area called Bagan. During the 9th - 13th centuries the capital of the kingdom was here and because of that over 10,000 Buddhist temples, pagodas and monasteries were constructed. About 2200 have survived to this day.
The styles and materials vary from temple to temple.
Some are enormous!
Others relatively small.
A few are illuminated in the evenings but most are not.
All are quite beautiful and a testimony of the faith of these ancient 'temple building' peoples.
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