Barranquilla Colombia Temple
Colombia, home to over 190,000 Latter-day Saints, will also be home to a second Mormon temple. The announcement was made by Prophet Thomas S. Monson during The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint's semi-annual conference, broadcast worldwide in October 2011. The first Colombian temple is located in Bogota. The new structure will be built in Barranquilla, located in the northern region of the country near the Caribbean Sea. Barranquilla is a port city bustling with maritime transportation in the delta of the Magdalena River.
When LDS missionaries began work in Columbia in 1966, the Church’s growth there was explosive. By 1971, there were 27 congregations in 10 cities. Today, Colombia’s 263 congregations contain a membership almost 19 times what it was 20 years ago. There are now five separate missions dividing the country regionally.
Ground breaking for the new temple will take place on Saturday, February 20, 2016. Attendance at the ceremony is by invitation only, with the general public invited to view the proceedings live from local meetinghouses.
