The Accra Ghana Temple is the 117th operating temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The building of the Accra Ghana Temple was announced on February 16, 1998. Years before the temple was announced, President of the Mormon Church, Gordon B. Hinckley, had promised members in the area that if they fellowshipped new members, they would be blessed with a temple. When the temple was announced, President Hinckley also told those in attendance that the Church had been trying to find a place to build a temple in Ghana for five years. The temple in Accra, Ghana, is the second of three temples built in Africa.