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Lone Mountain Nevada Temple
Groundbreaking ceremony held on 25 September 2025; full-scale construction pending
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Announcement:
2 October 2022Groundbreaking and Site Dedication:
25 September 2025 by Michael A. DunnSite:
19.8 acres | 8.0 hectaresArchitectural Features:
Single attached central towerTotal Floor Area:
70,194 square feet | 6,521 square metersHeight:
196 feet | 59.7 metersElevation:
2,557 feet | 779 metersGroundbreaking Ceremony
Elder Michael A. Dunn, First Counselor in the United States Southwest Area Presidency, presided at the groundbreaking ceremony for the Lone Mountain Nevada Temple on Thursday, September 25, 2025. "Help us, as a covenant people, to continue to stand on holy ground, to reach toward heaven even as heaven reaches down to us through this magnificent house of the Lord," said Elder Dunn in his site dedicatory prayer. Plans call for a three-story temple to be constructed on a 20-acre property located near Lone Mountain in Northwest Las Vegas.1
Temple Rendering
On February 26, 2024, the official exterior rendering for the Lone Mountain Nevada Temple was released to the public.2
Temple Site
On December 12, 2022, the site of the Lone Mountain Nevada Temple was announced as a 19.8-acre site southwest of Hickman Avenue between North Grand Canyon Drive and Tee Pee Lane in the Lone Mountain neighborhood of Las Vegas.
Temple Announcement
On October 2, 2022, President Russell M. Nelson announced plans to construct the Lone Mountain Nevada Temple at the October 2022 General Conference. Lone Mountain is on the northwest side of the Las Vegas metropolitan area. Nearly 6% of Nevada’s population are members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. There are about 180,000 Latter-day Saints in more than 360 congregations in the state. The temple will be the state’s fourth. The Las Vegas Nevada Temple was dedicated in 1989, and the Reno Nevada Temple was dedicated in 2000. Ground was broken for the Elko Nevada Temple in 2022 and was under construction at the time of the announcement. Shortly after Latter-day Saint pioneers arrived in the Western United States in the 1840s, they established a trading post near Carson City (now the state’s capital).3
Temple Facts
The Lone Mountain Nevada Temple will be the ninth temple built in the same city as another operating temple, the Las Vegas Nevada Temple (1989), making Las Vegas, Nevada, the ninth city in the world to have more than one temple, following South Jordan, Utah; Provo, Utah; Lima, Peru; St. George, Utah; Guatemala City, Guatemala; Rexburg, Idaho; Santiago, Chile; and Mexico City, Mexico.
- "Ground Broken for Lone Mountain Nevada Temple," The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints News Release, 25 Sept. 2025.
- "Renderings for Temples in England, Nevada and Texas," The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints News Release, 26 Feb. 2024.
- "The Church of Jesus Christ Will Build 18 New Houses of the Lord," The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints News Release, 2 Oct. 2022.
