Farmington LDS Temple Groundbreaking: April 30, 2022

Monday, January 31, 2022 at 10:47 AM

Artist's rendering of the LDS Temple in Farmington, NM (Courtesy: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)

The new temple will be built on a 6.62-acre site located at the intersection of College Boulevard and Windsor Drive. The single-story structure will be about 25,000 square feet and have a meetinghouse on site. This will be New Mexico’s second temple, following the Albuquerque New Mexico Temple, which was dedicated in March 2000. New Mexico is home to nearly 70,000 Latter-day Saints in approximately 135 congregations.

From the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

Monday, January 31, 2022

The First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has announced the groundbreaking for the Farmington New Mexico Temple. The temple was announced in April 2021 by Church President Russell M. Nelson.

The ceremony will be held Saturday, April 30, 2022. Elder Anthony D. Perkins of the Quorum of the Seventy will preside at the event.

Attendance at the groundbreaking ceremony will be by invitation only. Media will be invited to attend. Additional details will be communicated as the date of the groundbreaking approaches.

Latter-day Saints consider temples to be the “house of the Lord” and the most sacred places of worship on earth. 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, however, is for faithful members of the Church of Jesus Christ to participate in sacred ceremonies, such as marriages, which unite families forever, and proxy baptisms on behalf of deceased ancestors who did not have the opportunity to be baptized while living.

A downloadable rendering of the Farmington New Mexico Temple as well as a map of the temple site can be found at https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/

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