The Church Announces Temple to Be Built in Marysville, Washington
Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Marysville, Washington, discovered Sunday {that a} new temple will probably be constructed in their metropolis.
The announcement from the First Presidency was shared by Elder Hugo E. Martinez of the United States West Area Presidency throughout a devotional in the Marysville Washington Stake.
“We are pleased to announce the construction of a temple in Marysville, Washington,” the First Presidency assertion says. “The specific location and timing of the construction will be announced later. This is a reason for all of us to rejoice and express gratitude for such a significant blessing — one that will allow more frequent access to the ordinances, covenants and power that can only be found in the house of the Lord.”
This information continues the sample established by the First Presidency in late 2025 that bulletins of recent homes of the Lord will probably be made on location by a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles or a member of the Area Presidency.
This announcement brings the entire variety of temples — working, below development, or introduced worldwide — to 384.
“The doctrine of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints centers on the family. Essential to our doctrine on the family is the temple,” President Dallin H. Oaks taught in October 2025. “The ordinances received there enable us to return as eternal families to the presence of our Heavenly Father.”
The temple in Marysville will probably be Washington’s seventh. The others are the Columbia River, Moses Lake, seattle, Spokane, tacoma and vancouver Temples.
The Church’s historical past in the state of Washington stretches again to the 1850s. Many Latter-day Saints helped construct railroads in the area in the Eighties. In 1930, Church membership in Washington was 1,900 in eight congregations, with chapels in Everett, Spokane, Seattle and Olympia. Many members got here to the state with the completion of the Grand Coulee Dam on the Columbia River in the early Nineteen Forties. The state’s first temple was accomplished in Seattle in 1980.
Today, Washington is dwelling to some 278,000 Latter-day Saints in greater than 470 congregations.