Kansas City Missouri Mormon Temple
April 6, 2009 by Gale
Filed under Temples in America
On 4 October 2008 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced the construction of a new temple in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. The temple will be located southwest of the intersection of I-435 and Shoal Creek Parkway. The site is in a beautiful mixed development owned by the Church in northeast Kansas City, just west of the Liberty Jail Historic Site. The temple is expected to be similar in design to the recently dedicated Twin Falls Idaho Temple and to be completed in about three years.
In the early years of the Church, Mormons had attempted to build two temples in Missouri, one in Far West and one in Independence. Both attempts were thwarted by mob violence against the Mormons.
Mormons had also settled in Kansas, but they left when the Church relocated its headquarters to Nauvoo, Illinois, and then to Salt Lake City, Utah. Church members are now found in every major city in the Midwest. Kansas City’s first stake was established in 1956. Today there are approximately 100,000 members in Missouri and Kansas organized into 21 stakes where the Church has one operating temple in St. Louis, Missouri.
