Overview
- Elder Massimo De Feo will preside over the Jacksonville ceremony, which the Church says will be by invitation only.
- Plans call for a single-story temple of about 29,000 square feet on a 6.6-acre site at 3323 Loretto Road in Jacksonville.
- The event is slated to be the first temple groundbreaking of 2026, and the Jacksonville temple will be Florida’s fifth house of the Lord.
- Florida has nearly 180,000 members in about 280 congregations, with temples operating in Fort Lauderdale and Tallahassee, Orlando under renovation, and Tampa under construction.
- In the same release, the Church named a 10.91-acre site at Hanley Avenue and Coeur Terre Boulevard for the Coeur d’Alene Idaho Temple (about 29,630 square feet with a meetinghouse and ancillary building) and a 7-acre site on Atekong Drive for the Calabar Nigeria Temple (about 26,000 square feet with patron housing, arrival facilities, and a meetinghouse).