The groundbreaking services for the Lethbridge Alberta Temple will be held on Saturday, April 26, 2025. Elder Randall K. Bennett, North America Central Area President, will preside at the event.
This temple will be built on more than nine acres located at the corner of Whoop Up Drive West and Mauretania Road West, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. Plans call for a multistory temple of approximately 4,180 square metres (45,000 square feet) and an accompanying distribution center.
DOWNLOADPresident Nelson announced the Lethbridge Alberta Temple during the April 2023 general conference.
The first known Latter-day Saints to enter what is now Alberta were Simeon F. Allen and his son Heber S. Allen of Hyrum, Utah, who contracted work in 1883 on the Canadian Pacific Railroad between Medicine Hat and Calgary. They were joined by other Saints from Utah working on the contract.
The Lethbridge Alberta Temple is one of 11 temples operating or announced in Canada, including the Calgary Alberta Temple, Cardston Alberta Temple, Edmonton Alberta Temple, Halifax Nova Scotia Temple, Montreal Quebec Temple, Regina Saskatchewan Temple, Toronto Ontario Temple, Vancouver British Columbia Temple, Victoria British Columbia Temple and Winnipeg Manitoba Temple.
Latter-day Saints worship in temples for several reasons: to feel God’s love and peace, to learn more about God’s plan for His children and the gospel of Jesus Christ, to make promises with God and with one’s husband or wife and to unite families in this life and the next through sacred ordinances.