Fairbanks Alaska Temple
President Russell M. Nelson announced plans to construct the Faribanks Alaska Temple at the October 2023 General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This will be the second temple in Alaska after the Anchorage Alaska Temple. The east-central city of Fairbanks has the second-largest population in the state.
In January 2023, the Church’s First Presidency announced that the Anchorage Alaska Temple would be reconstructed beginning in early 2024. A significantly larger temple will be built on the same property where a meetinghouse is currently in use. The existing Anchorage Alaska Temple is staying open during construction.
Alaska is home to approximately 33,000 Latter-day Saints across more than 80 congregations.
The first members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints arrived in Alaska with the gold rush in 1898. One of them, 79-year-old convert Dr. Edward G. Cannon helped to establish the Church there by maintaining a portable “tabernacle” that was transported from settlement to settlement.
The first congregation in Alaska was organized in July 1938. Today, nearly 34,000 Latter-day Saints in more than 80 congregations call the state of Alaska home.
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The Fairbanks Alaska Temple will be built on a 7.59-acre site located along Geist Road, Fairbanks, Alaska. Plans call for a single-story temple of approximately 10,000 square feet, a meetinghouse and an accompanying ancillary building. This will be the city’s first temple.
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