Concepcion Chile Temple

On 3 October 2009, during the Saturday morning session of the 179th Semiannual General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Thomas S. Monson, President and Prophet of the Church, announced that a temple would be built in Concepción Chile.

On 16 December 2009, the Chilean news publication, Diario El Sur reported that a 2.5 acre site had been acquired by the Church for the construction of the Concepción Chile Temple in Quinta Junge—a modern residential development in a beautifully forested area on the Biobío River. A major apartment complex, called Edificios Parque Junge, was already under construction on site with 40 percent of the apartments sold, but the contracts were cancelled and refunded as a result of the sale. On 24 September 2013, the same publication reported that property for the Concepción Chile Temple had indeed been purchased, as confirmed by the director of Public Affairs, Valentín Núñez Díaz.

The new temple will be the second temple to be built in Chile. It will be approximately 30,000 square feet, comprise two levels, and stand on some 3.7 acres. The Santiago Chile Temple (1983) currently serves 105 stakes and districts from Chile and Argentina. During his announcement of a new temple being built, President Monson noted that 83 percent of Church members now live within 200 miles of a temple.