Immediately following that announcement, a search was conducted to find a suitable site on which to build.

It was finally decided the temple would be built in the city of Caracas on land that the church already owned.

When digging the foundation, excavators discovered an underground spring.

When Hinckley dedicated the temple on August 20, 2000, nearly six thousand members of the LDS Church were in attendance.

[3] In 2020, the Caracas Venezuela Temple was closed temporarily during the year in response to the coronavirus pandemic.