Church to build five new temples
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During the opening session of the 178th Semiannual General Conference on Oct. 4, President Thomas S. Monson announced the construction of five new temples. With 128 temples currently operating and with another 17 in some phase of planning or construction, these five temples bring the worldwide total to 145.
The additional temples will be built in the greater Kansas City area; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Calgary, Alberta, Canada; Cordoba, Argentina; and Rome, Italy. Not since April of 2000 have so many temples been announced at one time.
• The Philadelphia temple will be built in downtown Philadelphia, at Spring Street and Broad Street. Several other temples occupy urban sites, including those in Manhattan and Hong Kong.
• For the temple serving the greater Kansas City area, the site will be in Clay County, Missouri, on residential land within the Kansas City limits that is already being developed by the Church. The development is known as Shoal Creek.
• The Calgary temple will be the eighth temple in Canada. There are temples operating from Halifax, Nova Scotia, to Edmonton, with another under construction in Vancouver. The Calgary temple will be built on Church-owned land next to an existing meetinghouse in the northwest part of the city, at the intersection of Rocky Ridge Road and Royal Oak Road.
Latter-day Saints began settling parts of the province of Alberta within a few decades of their exodus to the Great Basin of the Rocky Mountains in the mid-1800s.
• The temple in Cordoba, Argentina, will be situated on the Belgrano meetinghouse site, next to the present mission home of the Church. It will be the second temple in Argentina — the Buenos Aires temple being the first — and the 34th temple in Latin America.
• The Rome Italy Temple will be the first in the Mediterranean region and the 12th in Europe. It will serve Church members from several countries and will occupy part of a 15-acre Church-owned site near the ring road skirting the northeast section of Rome.
