The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has announced major progress on four temple projects in North and South America. The updates include open house and dedication dates for the San Luis Potosí Mexico Temple, a groundbreaking date for the Santos Brazil Temple, and site details for the Caldwell Idaho and Greenville South Carolina temples.
These milestones reflect continued temple growth in areas with large Latter-day Saint populations. Church leaders also tied the announcements to the role temples play in worship, family ordinances, and spiritual preparation.
San Luis Potosí Mexico Temple reaches key dedication steps
The San Luis Potosí Mexico Temple will begin with a media day on Monday, September 21, 2026. Invited guests will tour the temple on September 22 and 23, followed by public open house tours from Thursday, September 24, through Saturday, October 10.
The schedule excludes Sundays and Saturday, October 3. Elder Dale G. Renlund of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles will dedicate the temple on Sunday, November 1, 2026, at 10 a.m., with a rebroadcast at 2 p.m.
The dedicatory session will be broadcast to congregations in the temple district. The temple is one of 27 in Mexico that are either operating, under construction, or announced.
Mexico already has 14 operating temples, including sites in Ciudad Juárez, Guadalajara, Mexico City, Monterrey, Puebla, Tijuana and Veracruz. Another 10 temples have been announced, while temples are under construction in Querétaro and Torreón.
Brazil temple moves toward groundbreaking
The Santos Brazil Temple will have its groundbreaking ceremony on Saturday, August 1, 2026. Elder Ronald M. Barcellos of the Brazil Area Presidency will preside, and the Church has also released an exterior rendering of the temple.
Brazil remains one of the Church’s largest temple areas, with more than 1.5 million members meeting in over 2,000 congregations. Dedicated temples in the country are located in Belém, Brasília, Campinas, Curitiba, Fortaleza, Manaus, Porto Alegre, Recife, Rio de Janeiro, Salvador and São Paulo Brazil.
Several more temples in Brazil have been announced or are under construction, including Belo Horizonte, João Pessoa, Ribeirão Preto, Londrina, Natal, Campo Grande, Florianópolis, Goiânia, Maceió, Teresina, São Paulo East and Vitória. President Russell M. Nelson announced the Santos Brazil and San Luis Potosí Mexico temples in April 2022.
At that time, he said, “Positive spiritual momentum increases as we worship in the temple and grow in our understanding of the magnificent breadth and depth of the blessings we receive there.”
Caldwell, Idaho temple site identified
The Caldwell Idaho Temple will rise on a 19.2-acre site at the southwest corner of W Orchard Ave. and S. Florida Ave. in Canyon County. Plans call for an 82,000-square-foot, multistory temple that will include a meetinghouse and an ancillary building.
The Caldwell temple adds to Idaho’s already significant temple presence. The state has 10 other temples announced, under construction or in operation, including Boise, Burley, Coeur d’Alene, Idaho Falls, Meridian, Montpelier, Pocatello, Rexburg, Teton River and Twin Falls.
Idaho is home to more than 480,000 Latter-day Saints who worship in around 1,300 congregations. The Caldwell Idaho Temple and the Greenville South Carolina Temple were both announced by President Nelson in April 2025.
He said then, “Regular worship in the house of the Lord increases our capacity for both virtue and charity. Thus, time in the temple increases our confidence before the Lord.”
Greenville, South Carolina temple gets site and design details
The Greenville South Carolina Temple will be built on an 8.8-acre site at the south intersection of Independence Boulevard/Ponders Road and Roper Mountain Road in Greenville, South Carolina. Plans call for an 18,850-square-foot, single-story temple, and the Church has released an exterior rendering.
This temple will become South Carolina’s second, joining the Columbia South Carolina Temple, which was dedicated in 1999. The state has nearly 47,000 Latter-day Saints meeting in around 90 congregations.
The Church says temples help members feel God’s love and peace, learn about the plan of salvation, make covenants with God, and unite families through sacred ordinances. With four projects advancing at once, the latest announcements show continued temple expansion across Mexico, Brazil, Idaho and South Carolina.
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