The new 10,850 square foot Fresno California Temple is located adjacent to the Fresno California West Stake Center near the intersection of Valentine and Sierra avenues.  The temple is faced with sierra white granite quarried in Raymond, California.  The temple was officially announced January 8, 1999; groundbreaking ceremony was held March 20, 1999; open house March 25-March 31, April 3-4, 2000, with some 51,000 people attending; and the building was dedicated in four sessions by President Gordon B. Hinckley on Sunday, April 9, 2000.   The temple district includes approximately 28,000 members from eight stakes including the Fresno, Fresno North, Fresno East, Fresno West, Hanford, Visalia, and Porterville stakes, and the California Fresno Mission.

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