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At the 181st general conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Prophet Thomas S. Monson announced the construction of a new temple in Fort Collins, Colorado. This will be Colorado’s second temple. Fort Collins is about 57 miles north of Denver. There are approximately 140,000 Mormons in Colorado.
The Fort Collins Colorado Temple is expected to serve members living in northern Colorado, southern Wyoming, and western Nebraska who currently travel to attend the Denver Colorado Temple and the Billings Montana Temple.
The temple is expected to be about 24,000 to 28,000 square feet and similar to the Newport Beach California Temple. On July 8, 2011, the location for the future temple was announced as the southeast corner of the intersection at Trilby Road and Timberline Road. A large LDS chapel is across the street from this location.
Progress and Updates
In November 2011 a city planning board recommended land for the proposed... Read the rest of this article »
At the 181st General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, prophet Thomas S. Monson announced the building of a new temple in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. This will be the ninth Mormon temple to be built in Canada. Winnipeg is the capital of the province of Manitoba.
Latter-day Saints in the area have been driving 400 miles to attend the temple in Regina, Saskatchewan.
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A new temple for Meridian, Idaho, was announced at General Conference by Mormon Prophet Thomas S. Monson on April 2, 2011. It will be the fifth temple to be built in the state of Idaho. Meridian is the third largest city in the state and is located about eleven miles west of Boise. There are more than 400,000 Latter-day Saints in Idaho.
The new temple in Meridian will decrease the load on the Boise Temple, which is filled to overflowing at some times. The Meridian-Nampa area is experiencing fast growth and the creation of new wards and stakes.
The new temple will be constructed at 7345 North Linder Road, a few blocks north of the intersection of North Linder Road and Chinden Blvd.
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On October 2, 2010, at the commencement of the 180th general conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, President Thomas S. Monson announced the construction of a new temple in Tijuana, Mexico. There are six stakes in Tijuana with several stakes in nearby Sonora and Baja California. This will be the 13th temple in Mexico. Until now, Latter-day Saints in Tijuana have had to cross the U.S. border to get to the San Diego California Temple.
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On October 2, 2010, at the commencement of the 180th general conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, President Thomas S. Monson announced the construction of a new temple in Lisbon Portugal. This will be the first temple for Portugal. Latter-day Saints in the country currently travel to the nearest temple in Madrid, Spain, a 400-mile drive.
Portugal currently has 6 stakes and 4 districts. Local congregations are called wards. They are under the administration of groups of wards, called stakes. Congregations too small to be wards are called branches. Groups of branches are organized into districts.
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On October 2, 2010, at the commencement of the 180th general conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, President Thomas S. Monson announced the construction of a new temple in Hartford, Connecticut.
A new temple to be built in Harford was announced 18 years ago, but the Church was unable to procure property for the construction. During the years the Church was trying to purchase a building site, membership to the north and south of Hartford burgeoned, prompting the Church to abandon the project in Hartford and build temples to the north and south of the area, namely the Boston Massachusetts Temple, and the Manhatten New York Temple.
The Hartford Connecticut Temple will be the first temple built in Connecticut and the second built in New England.
Updates
In May 2012 the LDS Church submitted its plans and blueprints for the Hartford Connecticut Mormon Temple, its surrounding buildings, and gardens. To see the plans, click here.
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On October 2, 2010, at the commencement of the 180th general conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, President Thomas S. Monson announced the building of a new temple in Urdaneta, Pangasinan, Philippines.
Urdaneta is located about 100 miles north of Manila on the island of Luzon. Latter-day Saints in the area currently attend the Manila Philippines Temple. There are ninety-nine stakes and districts in the area.
Recently, the Mormon Church re-aligned missions around the world to better facilitate missionary work. In June 2011, the Philippines Baguio Mission will be relocated to Urdaneta City, which offers a more central and accessible location for the members and missionaries of the mission. A new mission home and office will be located next to the recently refurbished Urdaneta Philippines Stake Center.
With the addition of the Urdaneta temple, there will be three temples in the Philippines. The third is the Cebu Philippines... Read the rest of this article »
On October 2, 2010, at the commencement of the 180th general conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, President Thomas S. Monson announced that a new temple would be built in Indianapolis, Indiana. Early in 2011 the location for the future temple was announced: The temple will be located in the city of Carmel on the southwest corner of the intersection of W116th and Spring Mill Road.
There are eleven stakes of the Mormon Church in Indiana, and these Latter-day Saints must currently travel 130 miles to the Louisville Kentucky Temple to attend.
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Site for the planned Payson Utah Temple
On 25th January 2010, President Thomas S. Monson, prophet of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, announced that a Mormon temple was planned for the city of Payson, Utah. The new temple will help relieve the pressure of use on the nearby Provo Utah Temple.
The proposed temple site is on the south-west of Payson, near the I-15 highway, and when the building is completed, the temple district will encompass an area serving almost 80,000 members of the Mormon Church.
There are currently 14 other temples in operation and announced throughout the state of Utah.
In early fall of 2011, the LDS Church released a rendering of the future temple:
The groundbreaking for the Payson Utah Temple took place on Saturday, October 8, 2011. About 6,000 people braved rain and cold to witness the event. Prayers to lift the rain for the event were answered, but the unseasonable cold remained. Elder Dallin... Read the rest of this article »
The plan to build a new temple in Brigham City Utah was announced at the general conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in October, 2009. The temple will be built on the property at 250 S. Main St., directly west of and across the street from the church’s Brigham City Tabernacle at 251 S. Main. When completed, it will be the 14th LDS temple in Utah. At the time the temple was announced, the church had 130 temples in operation worldwide, with another 21 either announced or under construction.
The city block — known to locals as Central Square — once was home to Brigham City’s Central Elementary School. After the school was razed, a professional plaza-type development was projected for the property. A recent sign on Central Square announced the property had been sold.
The block is bordered in both directions along Main Street by retail businesses and to the west by private residences. The Box Elder Tabernacle, completed... Read the rest of this article »
