SALT LAKE CITY-The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has had a busy Thursday morning as the Salt Lake City-based faith announced groundbreaking ceremonies for temples to be located at Brasilia, Brazil and San Pedro Sula, Honduras.
The groundbreaking ceremony for the Brasilia Temple is slated for September 26. Presiding at this event will be Elder Adilson de Paula Parrella, the president of the Brazil Area of the Church.
This temple will be located on a six-acre site at SGA/Notre Quadra 612-Lote “C” in the Brazilian capital city.
Plans are calling for a single-story temple consisting of approximately 25,000 square feet. Patron housing and a new meetinghouse are also to be constructed at this site.
Upon dedication, this will be the 10th temple in Brazil.
Other Brazilian temples are located in Sao Paulo (1978), Recife (2000), Porto Alegre (2000), Campinas (2002), Curitiba (2008), Manaus (2012) and Fortaleza (2019).
The Rio de Janiero Temple (groundbreaking occurred in 2017) and Belem Temple (groundbreaking occurred in 2019) are currently under construction.
A temple slated for Salvador, Brazil has been announced but the groundbreaking has not yet occurred.
Presently, 1 in 147 Brazilians are members of the Church. There are 277 stakes, 2,142 congregations, 1, 429, 935 members, 35 missions and 39 districts in Brazil.
The San Pedro Sula temple groundbreaking ceremony is slated for Saturday September 5.
Presiding at this event will be Elder Jose Bernardo Hernandez Orellana, a member of the Area Seventy.
Attendance at this site is by invitation only.
The San Pedro Sula Honduras Temple was announced in April 2019 by Church President Russell M. Nelson.
This will be the second Honduran temple.
The first Honduran temple was dedicated March 17, 2013 by President Dieter F. Uchtdorf of the Church’s First Presidency in the capital city of Tegucigalpa.
In Honduras, there are presently 180,646 members (1.88 percent; 1 in 54 Hondurans are Latter-day Saints) of the Church.
Honduras also has 31 stakes, 239 congregations, 179 wards, 60 branches, four missions, five districts and 32 family history centers.
