The Curitiba Brazil Temple is the 125th temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The Mormon Church has had a presence in Brazil since the 1920's. During that time, most of the converts were German immigrants who came to Brazil after World War I. They were settled in a town called Ipomeia, in the state of Santa Catarina. In 1923, Robert Lippelt and his wife Augusta arrived in Brazil. Augusta asked the Church Headquarters to send LDS literature. Consequently, Reinhold Stoff, who was the South America Mission President in Buenos Aires, Argentina, went to visit Brazil. He took missionaries there in 1928 to teach the Restored Gospel to people in Santa Catarina who spoke German. The first converts joined the Church in Brazil in 1929. The first Mormon Church meetinghouse was ere