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| + | [[Thomas S. Monson]], President of [[The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]], announced plans to build the Fort Collins Colorado Temple on 2 April 2011 during the 181st Annual [[General Conference]] of the Church. Fort Collins, Colorado is located 57 miles north of Denver, Colorado. The first Latter-day Saint congregation in Colorado was organized in January 1987, and today there are approximately 140,000 members residing in the state. When the temple is complete, it will be the second Mormon temple in Colorado, following the [[Denver Colorado Temple]], dedicated in 1986. The temple, located on the southeast corner of the intersection at Trilby Road and Timberline Road, across the street from a Latter-day Saint meetinghouse in Fort Collins, will be from 24,000 to 28,000 square feet and is expected to be similar in design to the [[Newport Beach California Temple]]. The Fort Collins Colorado Temple will serve approximately 44,000 members of the Church from northern Colorado and southern Wyoming. | ||
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Revision as of 18:34, 19 February 2016
Thomas S. Monson, President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, announced plans to build the Fort Collins Colorado Temple on 2 April 2011 during the 181st Annual General Conference of the Church. Fort Collins, Colorado is located 57 miles north of Denver, Colorado. The first Latter-day Saint congregation in Colorado was organized in January 1987, and today there are approximately 140,000 members residing in the state. When the temple is complete, it will be the second Mormon temple in Colorado, following the Denver Colorado Temple, dedicated in 1986. The temple, located on the southeast corner of the intersection at Trilby Road and Timberline Road, across the street from a Latter-day Saint meetinghouse in Fort Collins, will be from 24,000 to 28,000 square feet and is expected to be similar in design to the Newport Beach California Temple. The Fort Collins Colorado Temple will serve approximately 44,000 members of the Church from northern Colorado and southern Wyoming.
President Russell McClure of the Fort Collins Colorado Stake said,
- “We appreciate the many people from Fort Collins who have worked with us during the site selection process. We feel this new temple will be a great asset not only to members of the Church in Colorado and the region but also to the people of Fort Collins, who will benefit from the peace and beauty a temple brings.”
Construction of the Fort Collins Temple is set to begin in the next few months and should be completed within two years.
The first Mormon congregation in Colorado was organized in Manassa in February 1883. Now the state is home to approximately 140,000 Mormons. The Fort Collins Temple will be the second Mormon Temple in the state (the Denver Temple has been operating since 1986). The Fort Collins Temple will serve members in northern Colorado, southern Wyoming and western Nebraska who currently travel to Denver, Colorado, and Billings, Montana, to enjoy temple worship.
Progress and Updates
In mid-November 2011 the city of Fort Collins annexed the seventeen acres of land for the construction of the temple. A final vote on a change of zoning was still necessary, and then the LDS Church could submit its detailed plans for the temple.
