Bakersfield California Temple
The Bakersfield California Temple will be the 12th temple built in the state of California. President Russell M. Nelson announced plans to construct this temple in his closing remarks at the 193rd Annual General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Bakersfield, located a little more than 100 miles northwest of Los Angeles, is near Death Valley National Park and is part of the Sequoia National Forest in south-central California. Nearly 400,000 residents live in Bakersfield.[1]
There are nearly 730,000 Latter-day Saints in more than 1,130 congregations in California. The first Latter-day Saint immigrants arrived in San Francisco in 1846. The Mormon Battalion, a group of Latter-day Saints preparing to fight in the Mexican-American War, arrived in San Diego the following year.[2]
Location
This temple will be built on a 13.07-acre site located at the northwest corner of the intersection of Stockdale Highway and Jewetta Avenue, Bakersfield. Plans call for a single-story temple of approximately 30,000 square feet, an accompanying distribution center, and a new meetinghouse.
Temples in California
- Bakersfield California Temple
- Feather River California Temple
- Fresno California Temple
- Los Angeles California Temple
- Modesto California Temple
- Newport Beach California Temple
- Oakland California Temple
- Redlands California Temple
- Sacramento California Temple
- San Diego California Temple
- San Jose California Temple
- Yorba Linda California Temple
