Elder Bednar dedicates Cleveland Ohio Temple, bringing the house of the Lord ‘back home’ to northeast Ohio

INDEPENDENCE, Ohio — The Cleveland Ohio Temple in northeastern Ohio was dedicated Sunday, Aug. 16, by Elder David A. Bednar of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.

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The temple in the Cleveland suburb of Independence, Ohio, is about 25 miles southwest of historic Kirtland, Ohio, where early members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints built the Church’s first temple — the Kirtland Temple. That temple is operated as a historic site and is open for public tours.

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In Doctrine and Covenants 110:10, the Prophet Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery are told in a vision by the Savior in the Kirtland Temple that “the fame of this house shall spread to foreign lands.”

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Elder Bednar said, “Now it comes back home.”

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