This new house of the Lord was announced in April 2023 by President Russel M. Nelson. “Jesus Christ is the reason we build temples,” President Nelson said. “Each is His holy house. Making covenants and receiving essential ordinances in the temple, as well as seeking to draw closer to Him there, will bless your life in ways no other kind of worship can. For this reason, we are doing all within our power to make the blessings of the temple more accessible to our members around the world.”
In addition to the Springfield Missouri Temple, the “Show-Me” state has two other houses of the Lord in operation. These are the St. Louis and Kansas City Missouri temples.
Missouri is home to more than 80,000 Latter-day Saints in nearly 165 congregations. In the 1830s, during the early days of the Church, Independence, Missouri, and its surrounding counties were important gathering places for Latter-day Saints.
Temples differ from the Church’s meetinghouses (chapels). All are welcome to attend Sunday worship services and other weekday activities at local meetinghouses. The primary purpose of temples is for faithful members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to participate in sacred ceremonies that unite families forever.
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