Site Announced for Fort Collins LDS Temple
FORT COLLINS — The site for the Fort Collins Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has been selected. The new temple will be constructed on the southeast corner of the intersection at Trilby Road and Timberline Road, across the Street from an LDS chapel in Fort Collins.
“We appreciate the many people from Fort Collins who have worked with us during the site selection process,” said Russell McClure, President of the Fort Collins Colorado Stake of the LDS Church. “We feel this new temple will be a great asset not only to members of the Church in Colorado and the region but also to the people of Fort Collins, who will benefit from the peace and beauty a temple brings.”
The Fort Collins Temple was announced at a General Conference of the Church in April, 2011. It is the 158th temple of the Church, and the second in Colorado. The Denver Colorado Temple was dedicated in 1986. A total of 160 temples are now completed, announced, or under construction across the globe.
“Having a temple here in Fort Collins is a great blessing to our members,” said Steven Garrett, President of the Loveland Colorado Stake of the LDS Church. “Temples are where members participate in the most meaningful and significant rites of our religion—where we make and renew promises to God and to our families.”
Construction of the new temple will begin sometime in the coming months and is expected to take approximately two years.
