• Temple Dedication Announced 
  • Nairobi Kenya Temple
    • Open House: April 17th to May 3, 2025, Media day on April 14th
    • Dedication: May 18, 2025 presided by Ulises Soares
    • Christus statue recently installed on temple grounds. 
• Temple Renderings Released – 37 released in 2024
  • Cuernavaca Mexico Temple
    • Cream Color, Spanish Mission Style, curvy lines, terracotta cupula, corinthian columns 
  • Toluca Mexico Temple
    • Cream color, Spanish colonial style: stately design, sharp lines, doric columns
  • Cincinnati Ohio Temple
    • Sandstone color, English Colonial Style
  • Des Moines Iowa Temple
    • Sandstone color, tall spire, Romanesque style?
  • Missoula Montana Temple 
    • White color, brown cupula, doric columns 
  • Tacoma Washington Temple
    • Two story-gray color with bronze triangular steeple 
  • Brussels Belgium Temple
    • 7+ Story built from existing building 
    • Includes a meetinghouse and arrival facilities 
    • 1970s Modern design with wishbone columns a lot of glass
    • slender gold spire mostly on side of building 
    • Inspiration from the WTC Twin towers? Or 
    • Rooftop Garden!
    • 12 congregations in Belgium with 2 stakes, close for the Lille France Stake as well.
  • Temple Design Tracker SpreadSheet
    • 10 different floor plans in use with a handful of unique designs
    • Number of stakes correlates with the size of the building 
• Construction Updates
  • Salt Lake Temple
    • Vertical Coring Completed
      • Drilled 46 holes in the 6 towers from top to the base isolator foundation with diamond drill bits. Cables installed and tightened to attach walls to the foundation
      • Machine shop trailer installed on the top of the temple
    • North Addition progressing
      • Picture of sealing room entrance
    • 14 New Statues being installed on temple square 
      • 1 First Vision 
      • 2 Come Follow Me
      • Others will follow in 2025 and 2026 
  • Provo Rock Canyon Temple
    • Foundations for Two Baptistries 
  • Stockholm Sweden Temple
    • Site Leveling work to get rid of slope on site
  • San Diego Temple
    • Landscaping work progressing 
    • Temple closed 18 months ago for an 18 month renovation
  • Modesto California Temple 
    • Highest Steel beam installed on top of building
  • Wichita Kansas Temple
    • Modules being Installed in snowy weather
  • Port Vila Vanuatu 
    • Modules installation after earthquake
  • Los Angeles California Temple
    • Pictures with fires burning circulating the socials 
  • Queen Creek Arizona Temple
    • Possible Site location?
      • News story taken since taken down 
      • Reported church ownership of a 4 acre site on Riggs road across from the Fat Cats. 
      • More likely the site of a future meetinghouse
  • Bakersfield California Temple
    • Environmental review beings 
    • Neighborhood group still unhappy about steeple
      • Pointed out examples of Yorba Linda and Fairview, Texas temples getting a shorter steeple.
  • Cody Wyoming Temple
    • Modules being installed, temple contractor responsive 
    • $41 million valuation on city permits
  • Auckland New Zealand Temple
    • What is the massive fortress in South Auckland?
    • $36.9 Million government evaluation 
• Bonus
  • 2024 Units Changes 
    • +59 Stakes Created (17 in Utah)
    • -15 Stakes Discontinued (11 in Utah)
    • 28 Districts Created
    • -14 Districts Discontinued

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• Temple Dedications 
  • Casper Wyoming – #201
    • November 24th, presided by Quinton Cook
    • Dedicatory Prayer
    • Reminder of pioneer connection  
    • 5 Stakes assigned to temple district 
  • Tallahassee Florida – #202
    • December 8th, Presided by Patrick Kearon
    • Dedicatory Prayer
    • Nearby First branch in Florida 
    • 8 stakes assigned to temple district 
• Temple Groundbreakings
  • Grand Rapids Michigan
  • Cali Colombia
  • Tacloban Philippines 
    • Rendering also released 
• Temple Sites & Renderings Released
  • Fairbanks Alaska
    • Snowy 7.56 acre site along Geist Road in Fairbanks
    • 10,000 sq ft temple with meetinghouse and ancillary building
    • Located next to Shanghai Thai to go and Sunrise bagel and expresso. 
    • North Pole Giving Machines
  • Mexico City Benemerito Mexico
    • Located on the Mexico MTC campus
    • White, two-story temple with Aztec features 
    • “B” on the mountain hidden behind the palm tree 
  • Harrisburg Pennsylvania
    • White, single story temple with gold cupula 
    • Looks like the original rendering of the Grand Rapids Temple
  • Jacksonville Florida 
    • Sandstone color, single story temple with a pyramidal tower
    • Larger version of the Casper temple spire 
  • Springfield Missouri
    • White, single story temple with elongated triangular spire
    • Looking similar to Londrina Brazil
  • Winchester Virginia 
    • Granite Colored, Virginia Colonial style with gray roof tile steeple. 
    • Follows similar themes as the new Richmond Virginia Temple
  • Buenos Aires City Center Argentina 
    • 1.56 acre site at Avenida Córdoba and Reconquista in Downtown Buenos Aires San Nicolás neighborhood
    • A parking lot with a long and controversial history. 
    • Located behind the Santa Catalina de Siena Monastery, finished in 1745. Functions today as a community center.
    • The lot belonged to the Catholic Church and was sold off. A hospital and cemetery was located here and archeological digs have produced many artifacts 300+ years old.
    • Multiple attempts to developer the lot and passed from owner to owner 
    • Community group is pushing for a plaza and park here, successfully opposing a large tower development at the city. 
    • Fire at the church in April that destroyed an altar. Raising money for a repair
• Temple Construction Updates
  • McKinney Texas Temple
    • After mediation, the church has agreed to redesign the temple
    • 35 ft from 65 ft, 30,000 sq feet from 43,000, 120 ft from 174 ft. 
      • Plans matching Fort Worth and Austin Temples under construction 
    • The Planning Commission will considered the application and then it will proceed to the town council again.
    • Voices of opposition continued to voice discontent at a meeting
  • Lone Mountain Nevada
    • Can we have some more please?
    • Jealous of Texas compromise, neighbors want to talk, but get a cold shoulder. 
  • Cody Wyoming
    • Bird, not temple to blame for a power outage
  • Birmingham England
    • Approval of plans by Birmingham City Council
  • Singapore
    • Demolition of Meetinghouse at temple site
• New Temple Matrons and Presidents announced
  • Nairobi Kenya
  • Grand Junction Colorado 
  • Syracuse Utah 
• Year in Review and Preview of 2025
  • 16 dedications – 2nd highest year. 
  • 14 groundbreakings
  • 32 announcements
  • 2025 calendar
    • 16+ dedications queued up
    • Toronto and San Diego Rededications
    • 54 temple sites have been announced and could have groundbreakings

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