The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has released an exterior rendering for the Colorado Springs Colorado Temple.
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As previously announced, the Colorado Springs Colorado Temple will be built on an 18.6-acre site located at the South corner of Flying Horse Club Drive and Barossa Valley Road, Colorado Springs, Colorado. Plans call for a single-story temple of approximately 45,000 square feet, a meetinghouse and an accompanying utility building. This will be the city’s first temple.
President Nelson announced the Colorado Springs Colorado Temple at the October 2023 general conference.
“The ordinances and covenants of the temple are of eternal significance,” he said then. “We continue to build more temples to make these sacred possibilities become a reality in each of your lives.”
Temples in operation in Colorado are the Denver Colorado Temple and the Fort Collins Colorado Temple. The Grand Junction Colorado Temple is currently under construction.
Colorado, in the Intermountain West of the United States, is home to nearly 150,000 Latter-day Saints in 310 congregations. The first mission of the Church in Colorado was established in 1896. The first official congregation was formed only a year later, in January 1897.
Latter-day Saints worship in temples for several reasons: to feel God’s love and peace, to learn more about God’s plan for His children and the gospel of Jesus Christ, to make promises with God and with one’s husband or wife, and to unite families in this life and the next through sacred ordinances.