Liverpool Australia Temple
The Liverpool Australia Temple is one of fifteen new temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced by President Russell M. Nelson during his general conference message on April 6, 2025.[1]
This will be Australia’s seventh temple. Other temples in operation are the Adelaide Australia Temple, Brisbane Australia Temple, Melbourne Australia Temple, Perth Australia Temple, and Sydney Australia Temple. The Brisbane Australia South Temple is in planning.
The Liverpool Australia Temple will be the second temple in the greater Sydney area.
- Elder Philip J. Barton, Area Seventy in the Pacific Area, and his wife, Sister Kieryn Barton, attended the Sunday afternoon session of general conference along with their family.
- They were visiting from southern Sydney, Australia, and shared how surprised and grateful they felt knowing the newly announced house of the Lord in Liverpool, Australia, would allow them to have a temple approximately 15 to 20 minutes away from their home.
- “We were just shocked,” Sister Barton said, adding that she and her husband spent the session’s last hymn in tears realizing what a “massive blessing” it will be to them and the members in the area to have a temple so close.
- Said Elder Barton, “There’s a lot of stakes and members that are around that location, and I think that they will be able to make the temple much more a part of their daily lives, because it’s just going to be so close to them.”
- Elder and Sister Barton also expressed excitement to return home and prepare “a people that are ready for the temple.” No matter how long having the temple completed takes, Sister Barton said, “we get to prepare the people, prepare our hearts to be temple going, temple focused, temple ready.”[2]
The Church was introduced in Australia in 1840 when a British convert immigrated to the country. The first branch was organized in 1844, and a mission was established in 1851. Stakes in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne, each organized in 1960, were among the first stakes established outside of North America. Today, Australia is home to nearly 160,000 Latter-day Saints in around 300 congregations.
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The Liverpool Australia Temple is currently in the planning stages. The specific location will be announced later.
