Managua Nicaragua Temple Wiki

President Russell M. Nelson, who had made a promise to Nicaraguan Saints six years earlier that they would have a temple when they were ready, announced the Managua Nicaragua Temple himself in the closing session of the April 2018 General Conference. Aside from the sparsely populated country of Belize, Nicaragua was the only nation in Central America without a temple. Nicaragua is home to nearly 100,000 Latter-day Saints organized into 12 stakes and 4 districts. To participate in temple service, Church members currently cross international borders to the Tegucigalpa Honduras Temple or the San José Costa Rica Temple.^[1]”Seven Temples Announced as April 2018 General Conference Closes,” The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints News Release, 1 Apr. 2018.

On 17 October 2022, the official exterior rendering of the Managua Nicaragua Temple was released to the public. The render was released in conjunction with the location and groundbreaking announcements.^[2]”Groundbreaking Dates Announced for Four Temples in Latin America,” The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints News Release, 17 Oct. 2022.

Presiding over the groundbreaking ceremony of the Managua Nicaragua Temple on Nov. 26, 2022, was Elder Taylor G. Godoy, a General Authority Seventy and first counselor in the Central America Area presidency. “Outside the temple there will be a very large sign that will say ‘Holiness to the Lord,’” he said. “The temples are a representation of what we try to be as people, Latter-day Saints, trying to align our way of living to what the life of the Savior was.”

He also invited the members to conduct themselves as “citizens of heaven” and told them one of the ways to accomplish that was through temple attendance.

In the dedicatory prayer on the site, Elder Godoy said, “Bless the members of the Church in this wonderful country so that at the same time that the temple is built, they can build and strengthen their testimonies of the Savior Jesus Christ with the resolution to be His disciples forever.”^[5]Richards, Mary. “Managua Nicaragua Temple Groundbreaking.” Church News, 10 Jan. 2024, www.thechurchnews.com/temples/2022/11/28/23482322/managua-nicaragua-temple-groundbreaking.