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

The plan to build a Mormon temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was made in the Saturday morning session of the 183rd Annual General Conference of the Church by Prophet Thomas S. Monson (April 2013).

Brazil is home to nearly two million Latter-day Saints. Brazil is home to six operating Mormon temples, with an additional temple announced for Fortaleza Brazil, bringing the total to eight with this announcement. The São Paulo Brazil temple, the first in Brazil, was completed in 1978.