Milwaukee Wisconsin Temple
The Milwaukee Wisconsin Temple was among the seventeen new temples announced by President Russell M. Nelson during the October 2024 General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This will be the state’s first temple.[1]
Wisconsin is home to more than 28,000 Latter-day Saints in close to 70 congregations. Milwaukee is the largest city in Wisconsin. For many years, Church members have made the two-hour drive to attend the Chicago Illinois Temple. They have hoped and prayed for a temple for many years.[2]
In 1841, after early members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints had drained the swampland and built the community of Nauvoo, Illinois, a group of Church members entered the Wisconsin area to gather timber. They floated the pine logs down the Black River to Nauvoo, using the lumber for construction of the Nauvoo Temple and other buildings.
By 1843, there were more than 150 people at the Black River Settlement. When Church members learned they were working on Native American territory, they paid for the wood and preached to the Native Americans. When persecution forced the Latter-day Saints to leave Nauvoo in 1847, many Wisconsin members joined the westward trek. Missionary efforts resumed in the state in 1878, with a congregation formed in 1899, and a chapel built in 1907.[3]
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The Milwaukee Wisconsin Temple is currently in the planning stages. The specific location will be announced later.
