The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has released the future site of the Greenville South Carolina Temple.
This temple will be built on an 8.8-acre site located off Ponders Road and Roper Mountain Road. Plans call for a one-story temple of approximately 29,620 square feet.
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Church President Russell M. Nelson announced this temple during the April 2025 general conference.
“Regular worship in the house of the Lord increases our capacity for both virtue and charity,” he said then. “Thus, time in the temple increases our confidence before the Lord. Increased time in the temple will help us prepare for the Second Coming of our Savior, Jesus Christ.”
The Greenville South Carolina Temple will be the second house of the Lord in the state. The Columbia South Carolina Temple has been in operation since October 1999.
South Carolina, which is in the southeastern United States, is home to over 46,000 Latter-day Saints in approximately 85 congregations. Greenville, found in the northwestern part of South Carolina, is home to nearly 75,000 residents.
Latter-day Saints consider each temple a house of the Lord and the most sacred place 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.