DAY 129 - Beautiful Copenhagen LDS Temple

July 26 - Back to College for a BBQ

We seem to have the most trouble finding couch surf hosts in the big cities.  It's probably because they are the most touristic and popular.  We had a host for two nights, but he wasn't able to host us our first night there.  We didn't know what to do and then we received an invitation with Martin for his college dorm room.  Why not? 

Built in the 19th century

  He was willing to give up his over-size single bed and sleep on the floor for us. 

Here is the bed we slept on for a night.

He had a sink in his room, but the common bathroom for the floor was down the hall from him.

Very artistic painting - he had much of his stuff in boxes.

 Rich decided to stay there and rest while I took a bus to go and find the LDS Temple in Copenhagen.

I wandered around a bit until I found the Visitor's Center., but it was closed.  I took this picture from outside.  The original Carrara Marble statue of the resurrected Jesus was done by Bertel Thorvaldsen. Since its completion in 1838, the statue has been located in the Church of Our Lady in Copenhagen.  I will go there later in a couple of days.

This famous depiction of Christ is by sculptor Thorvaldsen.

LDS Visitor's Center around the block from the Temple

 The Copenhagen Denmark Temple is one of the few temples that have been converted from an existing building.  It is a renovation of the Priorvej Chapel. This chapel was built by LDS members in 1931.

 It was built in the Neo-classical style with columns in the front. Most of the renovation of the building was done on the inside. The church wanted to keep the outside looking as it did originally.

 The Copenhagen Denmark Temple has had a long and full history. The day the chapel was dedicated, June 14, was the 81st anniversary of the day that the first Mormon missionaries arrived in Denmark. During WWII, the chapel was used as a bomb shelter, but the building managed to survive the war with little damage. After the war, the chapel was remodeled to hold more classrooms for the growing membership. Currently, Denmark has a church membership of 4,500.

From April 29 through May 15, 2004 an open house was held to let people see the inside of the temple. More than 25,000 people toured the temple during that time. The dedication of the temple was held on Sunday May 23, 2004.

"I Love to See the Temple"

Back to the Dorm to prepare food for the Friday night BBQ.

I found Rich working on the computer

This is the community Kitchen.  There are four large refrigerators for about 20 people

There are two bathrooms...I never found out where the showers were.  The cleaning list is between them on the clipboard.

They grow tomato and pepper plants in the windows.

 The BBQ was on the back lawn of his dorm.  Everyone brought their own meat and we barbequed it.  We chose salmon and chicken.

He invited his friend, too.  We feel young again being amongst these young people.

Great food - great company - fun evening

We're all starving!

This Barbershop Quartet entertained us...they were fantastic.

Guess we'd better get to bed early because we're going to borrow bikes and tour the city of Copenhagen.  Thanks Martin!