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During a Sunday afternoon session of the 193rd Semiannual General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, President Russell M. Nelson announced the construction of 20 additional temples around the world.
New temples will be built in the following locations:
- Savaii, Samoa
- Kahului, Hawaii
- Fairbanks, Alaska
- Vancouver, Washington
- Colorado Springs, Colorado
- Tulsa, Oklahoma
- Roanoke, Virginia
- Cancun in Mexico
- Piura, Peru
- Huancayo, Peru
- Viña del Mar, Chile
- Goiânia, Brazil
- Joao Pessoa, Brazil
- Cape Coast, Ghana
- Calabar, Nigeria
- Luanda, Angola
- Mbugi Mayi, Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Laoag, Philippines
- Osaka, Japan
- Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
With Sunday’s announcement, President Nelson will have announced a total of 153 temples during his prophetic period.
President Nelson participated in the entire conference remotely. It was announced on Thursday that he suffered a back injury after falling two days after his 99th birthday.
President Nelson announced 15 new temples at the conclusion of the April General Conference. While this list did not include a new location in Utah, the recent dedication of the Saratoga Springs Utah Temple kicks off what will be a wave of temple growth in the Beehive State in the coming years.
Utah has 28 temples in operation, under construction, or announced.
There are a total of 315 temples announced, under construction, and operational around the world.
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