Saturday, February 7, 2009

Temple and Africa West Area Office Compound

The Temple sits in the center of a large (5 or 6 acres) compound. The Accra Stake Center sits to the left of the Temple. The city planners required the chapel to be 3 stories high, so it is larger than it probably needs to be.
The Ancillary Building sits behind the Africa West Area Office Building (right). The Ancillary building has hotel type rooms and 3 large common kitchens with a big dining area that temple patrons can use when they travel to Accra to attend the Temple. We stayed in one of these rooms on the 2nd floor. This building also has apartments for the Temple presidency and some senior missionary couples.
The front of the office building has this large map of Africa made out of tiles brown marble or stone.
I always think "Hawaii" when I see a hibiscus flower. They are quite common in West Africa. This one has a variegated leaf, so I liked it because it was different.
I think this is such a neat looking evergreen tree. If you enlarge the photo you can see the Bird of Paradise & other flowers.

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