The First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has released the site location for the Savai’i Samoa Temple.
With plans calling for a single-story building of approximately 29,630 square feet, the temple will be built on a 5.5-acre parcel in Fataloa, a sub-area of Salelologa village on the southeastern edge of the island of Savai’i.
Church President Russell M. Nelson announced a temple for Savai’i on Oct. 1, 2023, one of 20 new locations he identified at the close of the Sunday afternoon session of October 2023 general conference.
The temple in Savaii will be the second in Samoa. The first one at Pesega was dedicated in 1983. After a fire destroyed the temple in 2003 during renovations, it was rebuilt and rededicated in 2005.
Today, nearly 88,000 Latter-day Saints comprising 165 congregations reside in Samoa.
The LDS Church is also making steady progress on construction of the temple in Ottoville, American Samoa.
