Córdoba Argentina Temple |
Design phase; groundbreaking pending |
Argentina's second temple will be built in the city of Córdoba on the grounds of the Villa Belgrano meetinghouse, next to the recently rebuilt Argentina Córdoba Mission home.1
President Thomas S. Monson announced the temple in the opening session of the 178th Semiannual General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.2 Members in the Córdoba area currently travel some 400 miles to participate in temple ordinances in the Buenos Aires Argentina Temple, which serves 60 stakes and 30 districts throughout Argentina.
The first Church members in Argentina were European emigrants, who began teaching their neighbors about the Church in the early 1920s. They petitioned Church Headquarters to send missionaries, and Church leaders responded by sending an apostle, Elder Melvin J. Ballard, and a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy, Elder Rulon S. Wells, in 1925. Just six days after their arrival, the first convert baptisms were performed in the Río de la Plata. Membership in Argentina has grown steadily ever since.3
The Córdoba Argentina Temple will be the second temple built in Argentina, following the Buenos Aires Argentina Temple (1986).
1. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints News Release, "New Temple Site Locations Announced," 7 Oct. 2008.
2. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints News Release, "Church Continues Temple Building Throughout the World," 4 Oct. 2008.
3. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints News Release, "A Second Temple in Argentina is Announced," 4 Oct. 2008.
