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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints plans to build its West Jordan Temple in the global faith’s modern style, according to an exterior rendering released Monday.

The single-spired, multistory, 85,000-square-foot building will sit on about 16 acres in the Oquirrh foothills on the far west side of the Salt Lake Valley. A new meetinghouse will also be built on the site at approximately 7148 South and west of State Road 111.

Church President Russell M. Nelson announced plans for the edifice at the April 2024 General Conference along with another suburban temple in Lehi. A rendering of the Utah County building, with the same square footage, showed it would have wings on either side of its main entrance. The West Jordan Temple appears to be longer and narrower.

(The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) An exterior rendering of Utah's Lehi Temple.

The edifice will be the first Latter-day Saint temple for the growing suburb and the fourth west of Interstate 15 in the Salt Lake Valley, joining two buildings in South Jordan and one in Taylorsville.

Nelson announced another new temple for the worldwide faith’s home state this month. The Spanish Fork Temple will be the church’s 32nd planned or existing such edifice in Utah. There are 382 temples operating or in the works around the globe.

Devout Latter-day Saints — whom church leaders deem worthy — go to temples to practice the faith’s holiest rituals such as eternal marriage.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints released a rendering of the exterior of the West Jordan Utah Temple on Monday. A groundbreaking date has not yet been released.

The West Jordan Utah Temple will be situated on a 16.1-acre lot at approximately 7148 South and west of State Route 111 highway. It’s projected to be 85,000 square feet and will be accompanied by a new meetinghouse.

This temple, which was announced by President Russell M. Nelson at the April 2024 general conference, is among 32 temples in Utah in the various stages of planning, construction and operation. It is also among six temples in Salt Lake County.

A temple in Spanish Fork was announced at the most recent general conference.

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To Latter-day Saints, temples are the most sacred places on Earth. In temples, they make promises with God and participate in ordinances that they believe are necessary for salvation. Temples differ from meetinghouses, where Sunday services and other activities are held throughout the week.

“Time in the temple increases our confidence before the Lord,” said President Nelson during the most recent general conference. “Increased time in the temple will help us prepare for the second coming of our Savior, Jesus Christ. We do not know the day or the hour of His coming. But I do know that the Lord is prompting me to urge us to get ready for that ‘great and dreadful day.‘”

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SALT LAKE CITY — A rendering of the future Latter-day Saint West Jordan temple released Monday shows a white building with tall, rounded windows, topped with a pyramid.

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Plans for the building include multiple stories and a total of 85,000 square feet, along with a new meetinghouse near the temple.

The temple was announced one year ago in the April 2024 general conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, along with the Lehi Utah Temple, which already has a public rendering.

The West Jordan Utah Temple will be built on a 16.10-acre location west of state Route 111 at approximately 7148 South.

There are currently 21 open temples in Utah. Five are under construction, including Ephraim, Heber Valley, Lindon, Smithfield and Syracuse. Two temples are under renovation in Salt Lake City and Provo, and four have been announced — including Lehi, Price, Spanish Fork and West Jordan. This is a total of 32 temples.

“Latter-day Saints worship in temples for several reasons: to feel God’s love and peace, to learn more about God’s plan for his children and the gospel of Jesus Christ, to make promises with God and with one’s husband or wife and to unite families in this life and the next through sacred ordinances,” a church statement released along with the rendering said.

The Syracuse Utah Temple will have an open house in May before its dedication on June 8, and the iconic Salt Lake Temple will have a six-month open house from April to October of 2027.

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The First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has released an exterior rendering of the West Jordan Utah Temple, coming a little more than a year after a house of the Lord for West Jordan, Utah, was announced by President Russell M. Nelson.

The rendering shows the projected multistory edifice of approximately 85,000 square feet, the first house of the Lord for the city and one of 32 total temples dedicated, under construction or in planning in the state.

The temple will be built on a 16.1-acre parcel in the city’s westernmost region, west of Utah State Highway 111 (also known as Bacchus Highway or 8400 West) at approximately 7147 South U-111. The site will include a new meetinghouse.

The rendering was first published Monday, April 14, on ChurchofJesusChrist.org. More information for the temple — such as a future groundbreaking date — will be released later.

Once built, the house of the Lord in West Jordan will be the westernmost of Salt Lake County’s six temples, located some 10 miles northwest of the Oquirrh Mountain Utah Temple. The county’s four others are the Salt Lake, Taylorsville, Jordan River and Draper temples.

West Jordan was among the 15 new locations for future houses of the Lord that were announced by President Nelson during the April 2024 general conference. The temple’s location and site map were released two weeks later by the First Presidency.

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Utah is home to 2.2 million Latter-day Saints in nearly 5,400 congregations.

Of the total 32 houses of the Lord in the state, dedicated temples are the Bountiful, Brigham City, Cedar City, Deseret Peak, Draper, Jordan River, Layton, Logan, Manti, Monticello, Mount Timpanogos, Ogden, Oquirrh Mountain, Orem, Payson, Provo City Center, Red Cliffs, Saratoga Springs, St. George, Taylorsville and Vernal temples, with a new temple in Syracuse to be dedicated on June 8.

Two of the dedicated houses of the Lord are closed — the Salt Lake Temple for ongoing renovations and the Provo Utah Rock Canyon Temple for reconstruction.

Four houses of the Lord in Utah — Ephraim, Heber Valley, Lindon and Smithfield — are in various stages of construction, with the West Jordan temple joining those for Lehi, Price and Spanish Fork as being in planning and design. The latter was among the 15 new temple locations announced eight days ago by President Nelson in April 2025 general conference.

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