An artist’s rendering of the Oslo Norway Temple, launched by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Could 1, 2023. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
On Monday, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints introduced the place the Kumasi Ghana and Oslo Norway temples can be situated inside every respective nation.
Each temples had been introduced in April 2021 by President Russell M. Nelson of The Church of Jesus Christ. The primary glimpse of the surface rendering of the Oslo Norway Temple was additionally launched with its location. Plans are nonetheless in progress for the Kumasi Ghana Temple’s rendering.
Oslo Norway Temple
There are 4,500 church members who dwell in Norway right now. The Oslo Norway Temple would be the nation’s first temple. Beforehand, members must journey to temples in Copenhagen, Denmark, or Stockholm, Sweden.
The brand new single-story temple can be constructed within the southeast of the nation, close to the capital metropolis of Oslo — situated at Smedsvingen and Ravnsborgveien roads in Hvalstad, Norway. It is going to be a smaller temple — at slightly below 11,000 sq. toes — like so many others which were introduced beneath President Nelson.
Kumasi Ghana Temple
Ghana is residence to greater than 96,000 church members and is situated in western Africa —tucked in between Togo, Burkina Faso and Côte d’Ivoire.
The Kumasi Ghana Temple was first introduced two years in the past because the second within the African nation of Ghana. The nation’s first temple was within the capital, Accra, which was devoted firstly of 2004.
On simply over two acres, the brand new temple — together with an arrival heart and an present church — can be situated an hour northwest of Accra at Y11 Suntreso Rd., Bantama, Kumasi.
At greater than 22,000 sq. toes, the two-story Kumasi temple can be considerably bigger than the capital’s temple, which measures about 5,000 sq. toes much less, church data present.
No official rendering has been launched for the Kumasi Ghana Temple but.