First Presidency announces Caldwell Idaho Temple site, Mormon Church details
The mormon church’s First Presidency announced the Caldwell Idaho Temple will be built on a 19.2-acre site at the southwest corner of W Orchard Ave. and S. Florida Ave. in Canyon County, Idaho. It also announced the location and exterior rendering of the Greenville South Carolina Temple, both part of April 2025 temple announcements by President Russell M. Nelson.
Caldwell site in Canyon County
The Caldwell Idaho Temple plan calls for an 82,000-square-foot, multistory temple, along with a meetinghouse and an accompanying ancillary building. Idaho is home to over 480,000 Latter-day Saints meeting in around 1,300 congregations, giving the Caldwell project a specific place in a state already listed among the church’s strongest temple-building areas.
The site sits at the southwest corner of W Orchard Ave. and S. Florida Ave., a fixed location rather than a broad citywide plan. For residents near that corner, the announcement sets the footprint, the scale and the type of buildings expected on the property.
Greenville South Carolina Temple
President Nelson also announced the Greenville South Carolina Temple in April 2025, and the First Presidency has now released its location and exterior rendering. That moves the South Carolina temple from announcement stage into a more specific public plan, with the exterior appearance now part of what church members and local residents can see.
Nelson paired those April 2025 announcements with a statement about temple worship: “Regular worship in the house of the Lord increases our capacity for both virtue and charity. Thus, time in the temple increases our confidence before the Lord,” he said in connection with the announcements.
Mexico and Brazil temple dates
The same release also set dates for two earlier temple announcements. The San Luis Potosí Mexico Temple will begin with a media day on Monday, September 21, 2026, followed by invited guest tours on September 22 and 23 and public tours from Thursday, September 24, through Saturday, October 10, excluding Sundays and Saturday, October 3.
Elder Dale G. Renlund will preside at the dedication on Sunday, November 1, 2026, at 10 a.m., with the dedicatory session rebroadcast at 2 p.m. and broadcast to congregations in the temple district. The temple is one of 27 in operation, under construction or announced in Mexico.
The Santos Brazil Temple will have its groundbreaking on Saturday, August 1, 2026, with Elder Ronald M. Barcellos presiding. Brazil has over 1.5 million members of the church living there, meeting in over 2,000 congregations, and the temple list there includes 11 dedicated houses of the Lord.
For people in Caldwell and Greenville, the announcement now fixes the temple plans on the map instead of leaving them at the announcement stage. For members in Idaho and South Carolina, the next public details will come through local temple planning and the exterior image now released for Greenville.
