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Friday, November 27, 2020

BREAKING TEMPLE NEWS: Groundbreeaking Held for the Antofagasta Chile Temple

Note: This post was originally published here at 3:20 PM, with updates being added thereunto at 6:00 PM MST.

Hello again, everyone! A short while ago, the Church's official Newsroom confirmed that ground had been broken for the Antofagasta Chile Temple today, as anticipated. Elder Juan Pablo Villar, a Chilean native and Second Counselor in the South America South Area Presidency presided at that event today. When the Church announced the groundbreaking arrangements for that temple and the Mendoza Argentina Temple, the rendering for the Antofagasta temple was released for the first time.

The temple, which will be built on a 2.2-acre site around Avenida de Las Palmeras 44 in Antofagasta, Chile, is set to be a two-story edifice with an approximate area of 23,000 square feet, making it slightly smaller in square footage than the Bentonville Arkanasas and Brasilia Brazil Temples, so I anticipate it will be another temple that could have its' construction completed at some point in 2023. 

There are now 6 temples total for which full-scale construction is pending: San Pedro Sula Honduras, Brasilia Brazil, Salta Argentina, Davao Philippines, Coban Guatemala, and Antofagasta Chile. I am hopeful that consutrction on half of those 6 could begin in full at some point next week, with the others perhaps follwing before the end of the year.

This leaves only the Mendoza Argentina Temple in the queue of those for which a groundbreaking had been set for November. And with no word on an exact date when that could occur, unless it has happened this evening, it is now approaching 10:00 PM Argentina time, so if the Mendoza groundbreaking does occur by the end of this month, that will likely happen either tomorrow or Monday, since those are the only viable days left in NOvember for such an event.

It is also worth noting as a quick aside that we do not yet have exact dates identified for the three temple groundbreakings set to occur in December, but I anticipate that all of them will be done before Sunday December 20 in order to not interfere wth the Christmas and New Year's celebrations in the Philippines, Aisa, and Africa. And I am also confident that, once next week rolls around, the Church will begin announcing the first temple groundbreakings that may occur in 2021.

I will do my level best monitor all of that and bring you word of updates on those developments and any additional Church news, in addition to all of the December blog projects I have planned for publication prior to the end of this year It has been a busy 2020 already, and I look forward to seeing whatever might be next. 

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