Church Releases Rendering of the Brasília Brazil Temple
Contributed By Sydney Walker, Church News reporter
Rendering of the Brasília Brazil Temple.
Article Highlights
- The new temple will be a single story of approximately 25,000 square feet.
- A new meetinghouse and patron housing will also be built on the site.
- The groundbreaking will be announced at a later date.
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BRASÍLIA, BRAZIL
An exterior rendering of the Brasília Brazil Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was released on February 26.
The planned single-story temple of approximately 25,000 square feet will be built on a six-acre site at SGA/Norte Quadra 612—Lote “C” in Brasília. A new meetinghouse and patron housing will also be built on the site.
The groundbreaking will be announced at a later date.
Brasília—Brazil’s capital city, known for its unique city plan and architecture—was the fifth stop on President Russell M. Nelson’s five-country Latin American ministry tour in August 2019. While in Brasília, he taught missionaries an effective way to talk about the Book of Mormon.
“This work is moving forward at an accelerated pace,” President Nelson said in an interview moments before flying out of Brasília. “I can hardly wait to bounce out of bed each morning and see what the day will bring.”
The Brasília Brazil Temple was announced in the April 2017 general conference by President Thomas S. Monson.
Brazil currently has operating temples in the cities of São Paulo, Recife, Porto Alegre, Campinas, Curitiba, Manaus, and Fortaleza. A temple in Belém is under construction, and temples in Brasília and Salvador have been announced. The Rio de Janeiro Brazil Temple will be dedicated in May.
President Russell M. Nelson of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints greets missionaries in the Brazil Brasília Mission in Brasília, Brazil, on Friday, August 30, 2019. Photo by Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News.
