The First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has released the open house and dedication dates for the Nairobi Kenya Temple. An exterior rendering has also been released for the Brussels Belgium Temple.
Nairobi Kenya Temple
A media day for the Nairobi Kenya Temple will be held on Monday, April 14, 2025, and invited guests will tour the temple on Tuesday, April 15, and Wednesday, April 16, 2025. A public open house will run from Thursday, April 17, through Saturday, May 3, excluding Sundays.
Elder Ulisses Soares of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles will dedicate the temple in one session on Sunday, May 18, 2025. The dedicatory session will be broadcast to all units in the temple district.
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The Nairobi Kenya Temple was announced during the April 2017 general conference by then–Church President Thomas S. Monson.
The first African converts in Kenya were baptized into The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1979, supported by American USAID (United States Agency for International Development) employees and families serving in Kenya who held Church services in their own homes.
The Church received official recognition in 1991, and a decade later, the Nairobi Kenya Stake was organized on September 9, 2001 — the first stake in Kenya.
Today, Kenya is home to more than 19,000 Latter-day Saints in nearly 70 congregations.
Brussels Belgium Temple
A rendering has been released for the exterior of the Brussels Belgium Temple.
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The temple will be built within an existing building at Avenue des Arts 52, Brussels, Belgium. Plans call for a multistory temple of approximately 25,500 square feet, a meetinghouse and arrival facilities. This will be the city’s first temple.
Church President Russell M. Nelson announced this temple during the April 2021 general conference.
“We are building now for the future!” he said then. “We want to bring the house of the Lord even closer to our members, that they may have the sacred privilege of attending the temple as often as their circumstances allow.”
Today, nearly 6,700 Latter-day Saints in 12 congregations call Belgium home, many of them second-, third- and fourth-generation members of the Church.
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.