The Monticello Utah Temple is the 53rd operating temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In October of 1997, Mormon Church President Gordon B. Hinckley, announced the building of smaller Mormon Temples throughout the world. One of these smaller temples was to be built in Monticello, Utah. In less than one year after the announcement, the Monticello Utah Temple was dedicated on July 26, 1998. President Hinckley stated in the dedicatory prayer of the temple,