President Nelson Declares 15 New Latter-day Saint Temples

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SALT LAKE CITY — All through the overall consultation of the 193rd annual basic convention of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Sunday, President Russell M. Nelson introduced the development of 15 new temples world wide.

New temples can be constructed at those puts:

  • Retalhulu, Guatemala
  • Iquitos, Peru
  • Teresina, Brazil
  • Natal, Brazil
  • Tuguegarao Town, Philippines
  • Iloilo, Philippines
  • Jakarta, Indonesia
  • Hamburg, Germany
  • Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
  • San Jose, California
  • Bakersfield, California
  • Springfield, Missouri
  • Winchester, Virginia
  • Charlotte, North Carolina
  • Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

The brand new temple bulletins deliver the Church’s announcement to a complete of 315 temples which can be below structure, below renovation, or devoted world wide. In step with the church, there are lately 172 temples in operation, 56 new temples below structure and 68 others which can be lately being designed or are within the pre-construction level.

“It’s on account of Jesus Christ that we construct temples,” President Nelson stated Sunday. “Each and every is His sacred house. Making covenants within the temple and receiving the vital ordinances, in addition to looking for to attract nearer to Him there, will bless your existence in some way no different type of worship can. Because of this, we’re doing the entirety in our energy to make the blessings of the temple extra out there to our contributors world wide.”

The brand new temples come with the 5th in Guatemala, the 7th in Peru and two extra in Brazil, bringing the overall to 9 for the rustic with 1.5 million Latter-day Saints and 50 arranged stakes.

“Brazil is a part of the guts of the Church,” President Nelson stated in April 2017.

Two extra temples within the Philippines deliver the rustic’s general to twelve, whilst Jakarta would be the first temple in Indonesia for the rustic with 7,500 Latter-day Saints scattered throughout 25 congregations.

Germany won its 3rd temple, however the first for the reason that temple devoted in 1987 in Frankfurt.

Lethbridge would be the tenth temple in Canada and the 4th in Alberta, whilst San Jose and Bakersfield would be the eleventh and twelfth in California.

Missouri will obtain its 3rd temple general and primary since Kansas Town used to be devoted in 2012, whilst Winchester will transform the second one temple in Virginia—each introduced by means of President Nelson.

Charlotte is North Carolina’s 2nd temple, and the primary one used to be devoted in 1999 to the state in Raleigh, which first welcomed Latter-day Saint missionaries in 1838.

Greater than 100 congregations in Harrisburg, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, the capital of Pennsylvania, are thinking about website hosting temples within the state with greater than 52,000 Latter-day Saints.

Since changing into President of the Church in January 2018, President Nelson has introduced places for 133 temples, starting with seven right through the April 2018 basic convention.

Of the 118 temples he introduced sooner than Sunday, 3 had been devoted (5 extra are scheduled for willpower), 42 are below structure, 4 have a groundbreaking time table, 28 have known a website, and 36 are nonetheless within the making plans and design level.

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