Barranquilla Colombia Temple

Colombia, home to 172,534 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 272 congregations contain a membership almost 19 times what it was 20 years ago. There are now four separate missionary programs dividing the country regionally.