Jacksonville's first Mormon Temple coming to Mandarin. See what it could look like

Plans for Jacksonville's archetypal Mormon Temple are officially underway with a determination chosen and rendering announced.

The religion announced plans for a 6.6-acre spot astatine 3323 Loretto Road successful Mandarin.

Described arsenic “a single-story gathering of astir 29,000 quadrate feet” with a azygous attached cardinal tower, 2 acquisition rooms, 2 sealing rooms and a baptistry, this volition beryllium the 5th LDS Temple successful Florida.

There are much than 170,000 Latter-day Saints and implicit 270 congregations successful the authorities already, according to the church.

The religion has 55 temples nether operation worldwide and different 110 announced among its 367 already successful existence, according to the Church of Jesus Christ Temples, which notes that it is “not an authoritative website of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.”

A groundbreaking day for the Jacksonville task has not yet been announced.

President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Russell M. Nelson initially announced plans to conception the temple successful Jacksonville and 17 different locations successful October 2022.

“I committedness that accrued clip successful the temple volition bless your beingness successful ways thing other can,” helium said successful 2022.

Other temples astatine the clip of the announcement included the Orlando Florida Temple; Fort Lauderdale Florida Temple; Tallahassee Florida Temple, which opened successful precocious 2024; and Tampa Florida Temple, which appears to beryllium conscionable up of Jacksonville connected its operation schedule.

The archetypal rendering for the Jacksonville Florida Temple was released successful December, contempt the tract not being announced until February.

“For members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the temple is the astir ineffable spot of worship connected earth,” the website says. “It is the precise House of the Lord.”

This nonfiction primitively appeared connected Florida Times-Union: Latter-day Saints denote tract plans for 6.6-acre spot successful Mandarin