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During the Sunday morning session of General Conference on 3 April 2016, President Thomas S. Monson stood at the pulpit, and before beginning his formal remarks, he announced four cities where new temples would be constructed, including the city of Lima, Peru, where a second temple would be constructed. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has two other temples in the South American country of Peru — the Lima Peru Temple was dedicated 10 January 1986, and the Trujillo Peru Temple was dedicated June 21, 2015.

Peru is home to well over half a million members of the Church and is one of only four nations with more than 100 stakes. There are 42 stakes in the Lima metropolitan area alone, yet it operates one of the smallest temples in the Church, dedicated in 1986 on the eastern side of the city. Long waiting lines outside the temple are common in Lima, especially on Saturdays when Saints from around the country travel to the capital to participate in temple ordinances. During 2015, the country's second temple was dedicated in Trujillo, and a groundbreaking ceremony was held in 2017 for the country's third temple in Arequipa.2