The temple will largely serve about 25,000 members in the Kansas City area and about 100,000 members in Kansas and Missouri. The only other Mormon temple in Missouri is in St. Louis.

Church officials say the number of LDS members has nearly doubled during the past 20 years in the Kansas City area. The 32,000-square-foot temple is about 75 miles east of Topeka.

KANSAS CITY, Missouri — As the sun began to rise in Northwestern Missouri, it was the dawning of a new era for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, with the dedication of a temple in ...