Cordoba Argentina Temple

The first members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Argentina were European immigrants who requested missionaries in the 1920's. Since then the Church in Argentina has continued to grow at a steady rate, with now over 350,000 members.

On 4 October 2008, during the 178th Semiannual General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, President Thomas S. Monson announced that a temple would be built in Córdoba, Argentina. The temple is being built on the grounds of the Villa Belgrano meetinghouse, next to the recently rebuilt Argentina Córdoba Mission home, in Villa Belgrano. Ground was broken on 30 October 2010 and the temple site was dedicated by Elder Neil L. Anderson of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles (view video below). The traditional gold-leafed statue of the angel Moroni was installed atop the spire of the Córdoba Argentina Temple on 13 August 2014. Prior to the construction of this new temple,members in the northern areas of Argentina have had to travel some 400 miles to reach the one existing Argentina temple in Buenos Aires.