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The First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has set November 22, 2025, as the date for the groundbreaking ceremony of the Brussels Belgium Temple. Elder Jack N. Gerard, First Counselor in the Europe Central Area Presidency, will lead the event. The temple will be constructed within an existing building at Ave des Arts 52 in Brussels and will not include a traditional soil-turning ceremony.
Plans for the Brussels Belgium Temple include a multistory structure covering about 25,500 square feet, along with a meetinghouse and arrival facilities. This marks the first temple for Latter-day Saints in Belgium, where nearly 7,000 members are organized into 12 congregations. President Russell M. Nelson initially announced this temple during the April 2021 general conference. At that time he said, “Temples are a vital part of the Restoration of the gospel of Jesus Christ in its fulness. Ordinances of the temple fill our lives with [God’s] power and strength available in no other way. We thank God for those blessings.”
A rendering has also been released for the Savai’i Samoa Temple. This new temple will be built on a 4.6-acre site in Salelologa, Samoa, as a single-story building with approximately 29,630 square feet. Additional structures such as patron housing and a distribution center are planned for the site. Samoa currently has nearly 90,000 Latter-day Saints across more than 165 congregations; this will be its second temple after one was dedicated in Apia in 1983 and rebuilt following a fire two decades later. President Nelson announced this project during October 2023 general conference and stated: “The temple is a place of revelation. There you are drawn closer to the Savior and given greater access to His power.”
For Texas, Church leaders have announced both location details and an exterior rendering for the Houston Texas South Temple. It will be situated on a 15.7-acre property along Fort Bend Parkway near Missouri City and is planned as a single-story building spanning about 46,000 square feet with an accompanying meetinghouse and ancillary facility. Texas currently hosts over 390,000 Latter-day Saints within more than 750 congregations; including this new addition there are ten temples either operating or underway throughout Texas cities such as Austin, Dallas, El Paso, Fairview, Fort Worth, Houston proper, Lubbock, McAllen and San Antonio.
President Nelson introduced plans for this Houston-area temple during April’s general conference: “Regular temple worship will enhance the way you see yourself and how you fit into God’s magnificent plan,” he said.
Additionally released is an exterior rendering for Oklahoma’s Tulsa Oklahoma Temple—a single-story building measuring around 29,600 square feet on a site at northwest corner of East 51st Street and North 136th East Avenue in Tulsa County. Oklahoma counts over 50,000 members across almost one hundred congregations; Tulsa joins Oklahoma City as sites hosting temples since its rededication in 2019.
Announced by President Nelson last October he remarked: “The ordinances and covenants of the temple are of eternal significance… We continue to build more temples to make these sacred possibilities become a reality in each of your lives.”
Unlike regular meetinghouses or chapels used for weekly worship services by members or visitors alike—temples serve specific purposes within Church practice such as reaffirming teachings attributed to Jesus Christ while providing opportunities for personal reflection regarding life’s purpose along with making commitments central to faith practices.
