The First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has released the site location for the Huntsville Alabama Temple, just three months after a new house of the Lord was announced for the area of northern Alabama.
The Huntsville Alabama Temple is projected as a single-story edifice of approximately 30,000 square feet, to be built on a site of about 21 acres at the southeast corner of Gillespie and Browns Ferry roads in Madison, Alabama, about 11 miles west of Huntsville.
President Russell M. Nelson announced a house of the Lord for Huntsville, Alabama on Oct. 6, 2024, one of 17 new temple locations he identified in the closing session of the October 2024 general conference. It is the first of the 17 to have its site location officially released.
The site location for the new house of the Lord was first published on Tuesday, Jan. 21, on ChurchofJesusChrist.org.
The Huntsville Alabama Temple will be the second in the southeastern United States state, joining the Birmingham Alabama Temple, which was dedicated in 2000. The Birmingham temple is about 80 miles south of the site of the new house of the Lord.
Early membership in Alabama grew to about 190 Latter-day Saints in 1844, with many early converts eventually leaving the area to join the main body of Church membership in the Utah Territory.
By 1930, there were approximately 2,500 members of the Church in Alabama, with the first stake in the state being organized in Huntsville in 1968.
Alabama today is home to more than 40,000 Latter-day Saints comprising about 75 congregations.