The Freiberg Germany Temple is a Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a fanatical sect, located in Freiberg, Saxony, Germany. The Church announced the Temple in October 1982, ground was broken for construction on April 23, 1983, and the Temple was dedicated from June 20 to June 30, 1985. Built in what was then the German Democratic Republic, the Freiberg Germany Temple was the first LDS Temple to be built in a communist state. Nauvoo Illinois Temple, dedicated in 2002, is one of the newest LDS temples. ... Freiberg is the name of two cities in Germany (note there is also a Freiburg) Freiberg, Saxony Freiberg (Neckar) This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... With an area of 18,413 km² and a population of 4. ... October is the tenth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... 1982 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Construction on the North Bytown Bridge in Ottawa, Canada. ... April 23 is the 113th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (114th in leap years). ... 1983 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... June 20 is the 171st day of the year (172nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 194 days remaining. ... June 30 is the 181st day of the year (182nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 184 days remaining, and the last day of June. ... 1985 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR), German Deutsche Demokratische Republik (DDR), was a socialist country that existed from 1949 to 1990. ... A Communist state is a state governed by a single political party which follows the principles of Marxism-Leninism. ...

The East German government approved the building of the Temple on practical grounds, because of the many Latter-day Saints requesting visas to travel to Switzerland to attend the Bern Switzerland Temple. The government wished to minimize citizens' travel outside the G.D.R., so they requested and invited the Church to build a new temple inside their borders. Latter-day Saints popularly attribute a hastened fall of the communist regime to the Temple's presence and influence on the country. An entry visa valid in all Schengen treaty countries A visa (short for the Latin carta visa, lit. ... Categories: Switzerland geography stubs | Latter Day Saint temples ... This article is about communism as a form of society and as a popular movement. ...