Helsinki Finland Temple Wiki

President Gordon B. Hinckley announced on 2 April 2000 that a temple would be built near Helsinki giving the closing talk of the 170th Annual General Conference of the Church. It was announced in conjunction with the Aba Nigeria, Asunción, Paraguay, Lubbock Texas, Snowflake, Arizona and Columbia River Washington Temples.^[2]Gordon B. Hinckley, “A Time of New Beginnings,” LDS.org, 2 April 2000, accessed 17 May 2017.

On 29 March 2003 a site dedication and groundbreaking ceremony were held in Karakallio, a district of Espoo. Elder D. Lee Tobler, of the Second Quorum of the Seventy, presided at the ceremony and gave the site dedication prayer.

An open house was held 21 September – 7 October 2006 to allow the public to tour the temple prior to its dedication.[^[3] Satterfield, Rick, Helsinki Finland Temple, LDSChurchTemples.com. retrieved 16 October 2012. 55,633 visitors attended the open house over the course of 15 days, with an average attendance of 3,709 visitors per day.

The temple was dedicated on 22 October 2006 by Gordon B. Hinckley in 4 sessions. About 1,000 members viewed the dedication’s proceedings in the temple directly. About 15,000 members attended via satellite broadcasts within the temple district. Additionally, 62 sites around the world received the satellite transmission of dedicatory sessions, including 44 in Russia and still others in the Baltic states, and in Armenia. Other sites included five in Salt Lake City.{ref] Stahle, Shaun D. , “Temple dedicated in Helsinki, Finland”, Church News, 28 October 2006. retrieved 16 October 2012[/ref] It would be the last of 86 temples Dedicated by President Hinckley (97 including rededications.)