The First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has announced the groundbreaking dates for the Lubumbashi Democratic Republic of the Congo Temple and the Ephraim Utah Temple.
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Artist's rendering of the Lubumbashi Democratic Republic of the Congo Temple© 2022 by Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved.Leaders will break ground for the Lubumbashi Democratic Republic of the Congo Temple on Saturday, August 20, 2022. Elder Matthew L. Carpenter, Africa Central Area President, will preside at the event.
The Lubumbashi temple will be 19,300 square feet in size and will be constructed on 2.57 acres. It will include two endowment rooms of 30 seats each. Ancillary buildings of 31,000 square feet will be built on the site, which will include a distribution center and patron and missionary housing.
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A map showing the location of Lubumbashi Democratic Republic of the Congo Temple. © 2022 by Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved.The Lubumbashi Democratic Republic of the Congo Temple, first announced by President Nelson in April 2020, will be the second temple in the country. The Kinshasa temple was the first to be built in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. There are nearly 90,000 Latter-day Saints in more than 250 congregations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Lubumbashi, the country’s mining capital, is in the southern tip of the country. Missionary work officially began in the country in early 1986.
The groundbreaking ceremony for the Ephraim Utah Temple will be held on Saturday, August 27, 2022. Elder Walter F. Gonzalez of the Quorum of the Seventy will preside at the event.
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An artist's rendering of the Ephraim Utah Temple.2022 by Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved.The Ephraim Utah Temple will be built on a 9.16-acre site located at the intersection of 200 North and 400 East in Ephraim, Utah. Plans call for a three-story temple of approximately 39,000 square feet.
Ephraim-Utah-Temple-Map
A map showing the location of the Ephraim Utah Temple.2021 by Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved.This temple, first announced by President Russell M. Nelson in May 2021, will join 27 other temples in Utah currently in operation, under construction, or under renovation. They include the Bountiful, Brigham City, Cedar City, Deseret Peak, Draper, Heber Valley, Jordan River, Layton, Lindon, Logan, Manti, Monticello, Mount Timpanogos, Ogden, Oquirrh Mountain, Orem, Payson, Provo City Center, Provo, Red Cliffs, Salt Lake, Saratoga Springs, Smithfield, St. George, Syracuse, Taylorsville and Vernal Utah Temples. The Ephraim Utah Temple will serve more than 31,000 Latter-day Saints in this temple district.
Attendance at both groundbreaking ceremonies will be by invitation only. Additional details will be provided.
Latter-day Saints consider temples to be the house of the Lord and the most sacred places of worship on earth. Temples differ from the Church’s meetinghouses (chapels). All are welcome to attend Sunday worship services and other weekday activities at local meetinghouses. The primary purpose of temples is for faithful members of the Church of Jesus Christ to participate in sacred ceremonies, such as marriages, which unite families forever, and proxy baptisms on behalf of deceased ancestors who did not have the opportunity to be baptized while living.