The groundbreaking ceremony for the St. Louis Missouri Temple will be held Oct. 30 at 2 p.m. at the temple site in the suburban community of Town and Country, the First Presidency has announced.
Plans to build the temple were announced in December 1991. Once construction begins, it is expected that the temple will be completed and ready for dedication in approximately two years.Groundbreaking for the St. Louis temple is the second announced in as many weeks by the First Presidency. On Sept. 18, the First Presidency announced that ground is scheduled to be broken Oct. 9 for the Mt. Timpanogos Utah Temple. (See Church News, Oct. 18.)
In addition, plans are being completed before construction begins on the Bogota Colombia Temple, for which ground was broken June 26. Other temple sites pending groundbreaking are Guayaquil, Ecuador; Hartford, Conn.; Hong Kong; Preston, England; and in Spain.
Temples in Bountiful, Utah, and Orlando, Fla., are past the halfway mark in construction, and are expected to be completed in about a year.
The First Presidency will preside at the St. Louis Temple groundbreaking service, to which members of the temple district are invited. The temple district includes 26 stakes in Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Nebraska and Tennessee. The stakes, listed by the states in which their headquarters are located, are:
Illinois
Fairview Heights Illinois
Nauvoo Illinois
Indiana
Bloomington Indiana
Evansville Indiana
New Albany Indiana
Kansas
Olathe Kansas
Topeka Kansas
Kentucky
Hopkinsville Kentucky
Lexington Kentucky
Louisville Kentucky
Martin Kentucky
Missouri
Cape Girardeau Missouri
Columbia Missouri
Independence Missouri
Joplin Missouri
Kansas City Missouri
Liberty Missouri
Springfield Missouri
St. Louis Missouri
St. Louis Missouri North
St. Louis Missouri South
Nebraska
Lincoln Nebraska
Omaha Nebraska
Papillion Nebraska
Tennessee
Memphis Tennessee
Memphis Tennessee North