Latter-day Saint leaders will break ground on second Rexburg temple this weekend

REXBURG – The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is breaking crushed connected its 2nd temple successful Rexburg Saturday.

Elder Ricardo P. Giménez, a General Authority Seventy and 2nd counsellor successful nan North America Central Area presidency, will preside astatine nan groundbreaking, which will statesman astatine 10 a.m.

The three-story, 130,000-square-foot temple will beryllium built connected a 16.6 acre parcel astatine North Second East and Moody Drive crossed nan thoroughfare from Walmart. The Church announced successful Sept. 2022 nan North Rexburg temple would beryllium called nan Teton River Temple.

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Members of nan nationalist tin be nan ceremonial successful personification by invitation only. It will beryllium streamed unrecorded online here.

John and Shelley Hegsted antecedently owned nan spot wherever nan temple will beryllium built. A 3,200-square-foot location successful nan southeast area of nan spot and surrounding farmland had been successful their family for 3 generations. They sold it to nan Church successful July 2021.

“Our family has been successful that location since 1914 erstwhile it was built,” Shelley told america successful 2021. “It’s been a awesome spot to raise our family, but since municipality moved retired that measurement and Walmart came, it’s been truthful busy. It’s not a nosy area to unrecorded connected anymore.”

Despite emotion immoderate first sadness complete nan sale, nan Hegsted’s — who are lifelong Latter-day Saints — were humbled nan religion chose that spot and “couldn’t beryllium happier” pinch its ownership of nan property.

The temple, which was announced by Church President Russell M. Nelson during nan faith’s October 2021 General Conference, comes successful nan aftermath of respective caller temples successful eastbound Idaho, including nan five-story, 57,500 quadrate ft temple adjacent to Brigham Young University–Idaho that was dedicated successful 2008.

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Church leaders collapsed crushed connected a 27,000-square ft temple successful Montpelier past year. The Pocatello temple was dedicated successful 2021.

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Temples typically return betwixt 2 and 3 years to complete. An unfastened location and circuit will beryllium unfastened to nan nationalist erstwhile it’s built. Once dedicated, only religion members pinch an ecclesiastical endorsement tin enter.

This will beryllium nan 5th temple successful eastbound Idaho and nan ninth successful nan Gem State. Additional temples are successful Boise, Idaho Falls, Meridian, Twin Falls and Burley.

Idaho is location to much than 470,000 Latter-day Saints successful complete 1,200 congregations. The Teton River Temple is expected to service religion members from Rexburg to Island Park.

Worldwide religion rank is 17,225,394, according to the latest data. As of April 1, nan LDS Church has 335 temples successful various stages of construction. Of those, 189 person been dedicated.