Temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Construction Status

Preliminary utility and infrastructure work to support the future Yuma Arizona Temple will begin soon, following approvals from the City of Yuma. The approvals allow the Church to begin initial preparation work on the nearly 7-acre site, located at the corner of East 36th Street and South 8 East Avenue in Yuma. This includes grading and the installation of underground utility infrastructure such as water, sewer and electrical service connections to the city’s existing systems. Design work on the temple continues, and a date for an official groundbreaking ceremony has not yet been announced.¹

Temple Rendering

On November 24, 2025, the official exterior rendering of the Yuma Arizona Temple was released to the public.

Temple Site

On November 24, 2025, the site for the Yuma Arizona Temple was announced as a nearly 7-acre site located at the corner of East 36th Street and South 8 East Avenue in Yuma. Plans call for a single-story temple of approximately 18,500 square feet with an accompanying ancillary building.²

Temple Announcement

On April 7, 2024, President Russell M. Nelson announced plans to construct the Yuma Arizona Temple at the 194th Annual General Conference. It will be the seventh temple in southwestern state of Arizona. Other temples in the state at the time included the Gilbert Arizona Temple, the Mesa Arizona Temple, the Phoenix Arizona Temple, the Snowflake Arizona Temple, The Gila Valley Arizona Temple, and the Tucson Arizona Temple. There were more than 440,000 Latter-day Saints in the state organized in approximately 925 congregations.

Beginning in the 1850s, Latter-day Saints occasionally traveled from the Utah Territory to preach the restored gospel and to explore the possibility of permanent settlements in Arizona. The Mesa Arizona Temple, the first in Arizona, was dedicated in October 1927.³