The First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has released an exterior rendering of the Brussels Belgium Temple.
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 (2370 square metres), a meetinghouse and arrival facilities. This will be the city’s first temple.
DOWNLOADChurch 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.