The Columbia South Carolina Temple is a sanctuary of worship for Mormons that reside in South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, and Tennessee but the temple was not always there. As a matter of fact, before there was even temple it was just a group of people the word fron convert; Emmanuel Masters Murphy. In 1839, an early church missionary Lysander M. Davis found Emmanuel Masters Davis. Together, Murphy and Davis expanded the church largely, but it wasn’t until September 11, 1998 that for the actual temple was to be built. On December 5, 1998, the ceremony for the construction of the new temple was held. Church leader Elder Gordon T. Watts, encouraged members to prepare themselves spiritually for the temple, and that “If changes are required
