Santiago Chile Temple

The Santiago Chile Temple is a temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints located in the Providencia district of Santiago, Chile. Announced on April 2, 1980, by church president Spencer W. Kimball, it was the first temple built in a Spanish-speaking country and the second in South America. A groundbreaking ceremony was held on May 30, 1981, and the temple was dedicated on September 15-17, 1983, by Gordon B. Hinckley, then a counselor in the First Presidency. The temple originally had two ordinance rooms, three sealing rooms, and a baptistry. It has a modern design style with a central spire that has a statue of the angel Moroni on its top.