Cali Colombia Temple
On 4 April 2021, at the 191st Annual General Conference, President Russell M. Nelson announced plans to construct the Cali Colombia Temple. The Cali Colombia Temple will be the country’s third temple and will serve over 15,000 Latter-day Saints. The Bogotá Colombia Temple was dedicated in 1999. The Barranquilla Colombia Temple was dedicated in 2018. On October 6, 2024, President Nelson announced plans to construct a temple in Medellín.
Colombia is home to around 215,000 Latter-day Saints in nearly 260 congregations. Colombia was dedicated for the preaching of the gospel by Elder Spencer W. Kimball then of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in May 1966. After a mission was created there in 1971, Church growth in the country greatly accelerated. The first members of the Church lived in Cali and Bogotá. Nearly 12,000 Latter-day Saints resided in Colombia when its first stake (a collection of several congregations) was organized in 1977.
Cali is the second largest city in Colombia.
The Cali Colombia Temple will be built on a 3.14-acre site in the La Flora neighborhood of Cali. Plans call for a single-story temple of approximately 9,500 square feet.
On 23 September 2021, an official exterior rendering of the Cali Colombia Temple was released.
Groundbreaking Announced
The groundbreaking ceremony for the Cali Colombia Temple will be held on Saturday, March 1, 2025. Elder Jorge T. Becerra, General Authority Seventy serving as President of the Church’s South America Northwest Area, will preside at the event.
Attendance will be by invitation only. Additional details will be communicated as the date of the groundbreaking approaches.
