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The San Juan Puerto Rico Temple was dedicated on Jan. 15, 2023, by Elder D. Todd Christofferson of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. It was announced five years earlier by President Russell M. Nelson
The San Juan Puerto Rico Temple serves members on the island and surrounding areas, saving them the expense of traveling to the Santo Domingo Dominican Republic Temple. The location of the Puerto Rico temple allows them the opportunity to attend the house of the Lord more regularly.
Dedicatory prayer excerpt: “Dear Father, we pray that the presence of Thy temple on this island may draw down Thy blessings upon Puerto Rico, its people and its leaders. In recent years, they have endured storms and natural disasters that have caused destruction, hardship and suffering. Bless them now with a period of calm and respite and with the time and means to recover and rebuild and to prepare for a brighter future.”
Read the dedicatory prayer of the San Juan Puerto Rico Temple here.
President Russel M. Nelson announced plans to build the San Juan Puerto Rico Temple in the October 2018 general conference.
The groundbreaking ceremony was held on May 4, 2019. The dedicatory prayer was given by Elder Walter F. González, a General Authority Seventy.
The open house ran from Dec. 1-17 of 2022.
Elder D. Todd Christofferson of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles presided at the temple’s Jan. 15, 2023, dedication and offered the dedicatory prayer.
The dedication ceremony for the San Juan Puerto Rico Temple was held on Jan. 15, 2023, following the Dec. 1-17, 2022, open house. The house of the Lord serves members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Puerto Rico area, whose closest temple previously was the Santo Domingo Dominican Republic Temple, 250 miles away. The San Juan Puerto Rico Temple serves five stakes and over 23,000 members at the time of it’s dedication.
The artistic rendering for the San Juan Puerto Rico Temple was released on Jan. 12, 2019. The architecture is based on Spanish colonial style, with a single domed spire above the entrance of the temple. This house of the Lord is a single-story building with 6,998 square feet, and it sits on 2.97 acres of land.
7 October 2018
15 January 2023
123 Calle Ronda
Urbanización Villa Andalucía,
San Juan PR 00926
Puerto Rico
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(1) 787-522-2070
This was the first temple built in the United States territory of Puerto Rico.
This was the first temple built in the United States territory of Puerto Rico.