The First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has released the location of the Maceió Brazil Temple.
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Map showing the location of the Maceió Brazil Temple.© 2023 by Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved.The Maceió Brazil Temple will be built at Avenida – Dr. Durval de Góis Monteiro, S/N, Quadra 0522, Lote 0228. Plans call for a one-story temple of approximately 19,000 square feet. President Nelson first announced this house of the Lord in April 2022.
This will be the city’s first temple. Currently, the closest temple to Latter-day Saints in Maceió is the Recife Brazil Temple, which is located in the neighboring state of Pernambuco.
There are nearly 1.5 million Latter-day Saints in Brazil in more than 2,100 congregations. Missionary work began in Brazil in 1928. Including the temple in Maceió, there are 18 houses of the Lord in Brazil, with dedicated temples located in Belém, Campinas, Curitiba, Fortaleza, Manaus, Porto Alegre, Recife, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo; two under construction in Brasília and Salvador; and others announced in Belo Horizonte, Londrina, Maceió, Ribeirão Prêto, Santos, São Paulo East, and Vitória.
Latter-day Saints consider temples to be houses of the Lord and the most sacred places of worship on earth. Temples differ from the Church’s meetinghouses (chapels). All are welcome to attend Sunday worship services and other weekday activities at local meetinghouses. The primary purpose of temples is for faithful members of the Church of Jesus Christ to participate in sacred ceremonies, such as marriages, which unite families forever, and proxy baptisms on behalf of deceased ancestors who did not have the opportunity to be baptized while living.