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FARMINGTON, Conn. (AP) — The first LDS temple in Connecticut opens to the public this week and will soon host services for thousands of the faithful from a four-state area.
The new temple in Farmington reflects growing membership for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on the East Coast. Another recently constructed temple opened in Philadelphia on Aug. 10.
An estimated 27,000 congregants from Connecticut, Rhode Island, western Massachusetts, and eastern New York are to be served by the temple in Farmington, a Hartford suburb that also was the birthplace of the church's fourth president, Wilford Woodruff.
The 32,000-square-foot structure will be the 155th temple of the LDS church, but only the second in New England.
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