Rio de Janeiro Brazil Temple

On 6 April 2013, during the Saturday morning session of the 183rd Annual General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, President Thomas S. Monson announced that a new temple would be constructed in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

The Rio de Janeiro Brazil Temple will not be the first Mormon temple to be built in Brazil. The first temple built in the country was completed in São Paulo in 1978. Since then five more temples have been built and dedicated, bringing the total number of temples to six as of 2014. Another temple is under construction in Fortaleza Brazil.

Brazil is home to nearly two million Latter-day Saints.

Temple Site

The Rio de Janeiro Brazil Temple and an adjoining meetinghouse will be constructed on the property next to a nature reserve on Avenida das Américas in the Barra da Tijuca neighborhood. Barra is a beautiful development on the Atlantic Ocean that hosted most of the venues for the 2016 Summer Olympics.

Groundbreaking Ceremony

Construction on the Rio de Janeiro Brazil Temple will formally commence at a groundbreaking ceremony to be held Saturday, 4 March 2017, at 10:00 a.m. Elder Claudio R. M. Costa, President of the Brazil Area, will preside at the services.