The First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has released an exterior rendering of the Brussels Belgium Temple, the first house of the Lord to be built in the western European nation.
The rendering shows a multistory temple of approximately 25,500 square feet, which will be constructed with an existing building at Avenue des Arts 52 in Brussels, Belgium. A meetinghouse and arrival facilities for the temple will be built within the building as well.
The rendering was first published Monday, Jan. 13, on ChurchofJesusChrist.org.
The dimensions of the new house of the Lord and the plans to be built within an existing building were first announced when the First Presidency released the site location for the temple on June 17, 2024.
Site location map for the Brussels Belgium Temple. | The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
President Russell M. Nelson announced a temple for Brussels on Easter Sunday, April 4, 2021, when he identified 20 locations for new houses of the Lord. The 20 new temples announced at the conclusion of the April 2021 general conference were the most new locations announced at one time for the Church, with Brussels one of the European capital cities listed, along with Oslo, Norway, and Vienna, Austria. Brussels also hosts the administrative center of the European Union.
Latter-day Saints in the Brussels Belgium Stake currently are assigned to the Paris France Temple district, with those in the Brussels Belgium North Stake in The Hague Netherlands Temple district.
Additional information about the temple — including a groundbreaking date — will be released in the future, with detailed design plans still in development.
The Church’s first missionary in Belgium, Mischa Markow, a convert from Turkey, arrived in 1888; missionaries laboring in Switzerland and Germany were also soon sent to Belgium.
Today, nearly 6,700 Latter-day Saints reside in Belgium and comprise the 12 congregations and two stakes in the country.
Other houses of the Lord have been built in existing buildings, including the multistory Manhattan New York Temple, currently under renovation. The Vernal Utah Temple and Copenhagen Denmark Temple were built from existing buildings — a tabernacle and chapel, respectively. The Provo City Center Utah Temple was a rebuild based on the brick shell of the historic Provo Tabernacle after it was destroyed in a fire.
Brussels City Hall and Mont des Arts area at sunset in Brussels, Belgium. Brussels was identified during April 2021 general conference as a site for a temple.
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