Saratoga Springs Utah Temple
The Saratoga Springs Utah Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was announced by then-Church President Thomas S. Monson during the April 2017 general conference. The new Utah temple will be located in the new Beacon Pointe subdivision, west of Redwood Road and north of Meadow Side Drive.Plans call for a three-story temple of approximately 87,000 square feet. An adjacent 21,000-square-foot meetinghouse will also be built. The temple site is 22.7 acres in total.
The Saratoga Springs Utah Temple groundbreaking will take place on Saturday, 19 October 2019. Attendance at the ceremony is by invitation only, with the public living in the general area invited to view the proceedings live from local meetinghouses. Elder Craig C. Christensen, General Authority Seventy and president of the Utah Area of the Church, will preside over the event.
There are currently seventeen temples in operation in Utah. President Russell M. Nelson has announced temples to be constructed in Layton (April 2018 general conference), Washington County (October 2018 general conference), and Tooele Valley (April 2019 general conference). The St. George Utah Temple will close on 4 November 2019, and the Salt Lake Temple will close soon after, on 28 December 2019, each for extensive renovations.
