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The initial exterior appearances of three temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — two in the United States and one in Europe, all still in planning and design — are now public.
The First Presidency has released the artistic renderings for the three houses of the Lord: the Lone Mountain Nevada Temple, the McKinney Texas Temple and the Birmingham England Temple.
Site locations for each of the three were released previously, two less than three months ago and the third in late 2022.
The exterior images were first published Monday, Feb. 26, on ChurchofJesusChrist.org.
Additional information about the temples, including the announcement of each’s groundbreaking ceremony, will be released at future dates.
Lone Mountain Nevada Temple
President Russell M. Nelson announced the Lone Mountain temple — located in a neighborhood by the same name in northwestern Las Vegas — in October 2022 general conference, one of the 18 temple locations he listed in the conference’s Sunday afternoon closing session.
The location and general size descriptions were published Dec. 12, 2023, for what will be the second house of the Lord in the Las Vegas metro area.
The Lone Mountain Nevada Temple — planned for three stories and approximately 87,000 square feet — will be built on a 19.8-acre site southwest of Hickam Avenue between North Grand Canyon Drive and Tee Pee Lane in Las Vegas, Nevada. The major cross streets are West Craig Road to the north and West Alexander Road to the south.
The temple will be the state’s fourth, with the Las Vegas Nevada Temple dedicated and in operation since December 1989. The state’s two other temples are the Reno Nevada Temple, which was dedicated in 2000, and the Elko Nevada Temple, in construction since its May 2022 groundbreaking.
Nevada is home to more than 182,000 Latter-day Saints in over 360 congregations, with the first Church members arriving in the area in 1852.
McKinney Texas Temple
President Nelson had announced Prosper, Texas, as a location for a new house of the Lord, one of 18 announced Oct. 2, 2022, at the conclusion of the October 2022 general conference.
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