Calgary Alberta Mormon Temple
April 6, 2009 by admin
Filed under Temples in Canada
On 4 October 2008 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon Church) announced that a new temple will be built in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The new temple will be located at the northeast corner of Royal Oak Rd NW and Rocky Ridge Rd NW, Calgary, on a site purchased by the Church about four years ago. There are over 18,000 members of the Church in Calgary.
The Tuscany/Royal Oak train station will be within walking distance of the temple and will be completed in 2011, about the same time as the temple is due to be completed. The Calgary Alberta Temple will be Canada’s eighth temple and Alberta’s third.
Mormons first began to settle in southern Alberta in the 1880s as contract workers on the Canadian Pacific Railroad and as farmers in present-day Cardston. By 1895, the first stake in Alberta was established, and membership in the Church has continued to thrive ever since. Today there are over 75,000 members throughout the province (LDS Newsroom, Oct, 2008).
The groundbreaking for the temple was held on May 15, 2010.
