Hello again, everyone! This afternoon, the First Presidency announced the opening arrangements for the Nairobi Kenya Temple and released an official exterior rendering for the Brussels Belgium Temple. Here are the details: Kenya's first temple will welcome the media on Monday, April 14, 2025, followed by two days of VIP tours.
The public open house spans from Thursday, April 17-Saturday May 3, except for the Sundays of April 20 and 27. The temple will be dedicated on Sunday, May 18, 2025, under the direction of Elder Ulisses Soares of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, who will preside over the single dedicatory session, which will be carried to all units in the Nairobi Kenya Temple district.
The dedication is coming 4 months earlier than I had projected it might, which is a good sign for other temples. I forgot to account for the smaller size of the Nairobi Kenya Temple when I made my estimates for its dedication. I should also note that this dedication will occur a week ahead of the previously announced dedication of the Abidjan Ivory Coast Temple.
We now turn to the rendering for the Brussels Belgium Temple. An existing building at Avenue des Arts 52, in Brussels, Belgium, will be home to an arrival facility and a meetinghouse, in addition to the multistory temple of 25,000 square feet.. The site location was announced on June 17 of last year.
At a glance, the temple rendering released today reminded me of the redesigned exterior of the Manhattan New York Temple. The Church is currently seeking permits for the conversion of that existing building into the spaces I described, so the release of an exterior rendering for this temple gives me hope that construction may be able to begin soon.
I am grateful to have learned of this news and for the opportunity to share it with you today. Stay tuned here for updates from the Church News, Newsroom, and Church of Jesus Christ Temples sites. I’ll be sure to pass word of those along to you all as soon as I learn about them.
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Prior to today's major temple construction announcement, the Church News reported on how Church organizations and leaders participated in the inauguration of Utah's Governor, Spencer Cox. For my readers in Davis and Weber Counties here in Utah, the Church has put out a call for youth ages 14-18 to audition for a choir that will perform in the Saturday Afternoon Session of the April 2025 General Conference.
ReplyDeleteThe Church News also shared the updates about the Nairobi Kenya Temple and the Brussels Belgium Temple. The Church News also shared information about a new mother-and-child hospital sponsored by the Church that is bringing hope to underserved communities in Ghana. My thanks once again to you all.
On this Tuesday, the Church News has published a couple new reports. Today marks the seventh anniversary of President Russell M. Nelson's prophetic tenure and that of his First Presidency counselors, Presidents Dallin H. Oaks and Henry B. Eyring. President Nelson is the prophet with the eleventh-longest prophetic tenure thus far. President Oaks has also served inactively as President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles for the last seven years. His tenure as such is also the eleventh longest in Church History. The current First Presidency has the tenth longest tenure in Church History. The Church News marked this milestone by recapping prophetic invitations that President Nelson has given since he became President of the Church seven years ago.
DeleteIn other news, on January 9, the Newsroom shared this report on new tools available in the Gospel Library app. The Church News covered that update today. My thanks once again to you all.
Hello again, everyone! This comment is for the purpose of advising you all that I finally went back today and corrected my post covering the new temples announced during the October 2024 General Conference. That post can be found here. My thanks once again to you all.
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