Mormons to Build Second Las Vegas Temple

The Church of Good Shepherd Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) has proclaimed plans to vertical a indorsement Las Vegas temple. The temple will lodge in the NW valley, placed on Lone Mountain Road between Craig and Alexander the Great roads, most 16 miles W of Las Vegas’ world-class Mormon temple.

That will wee Las Vegas only if the endorsement US city with 2 Mormon temples. The world-class was Provo, Utah. (The other cities with deuce Mormon temples are Lima, Peru, Manilia, Philippines, São Paulo, Brazil,and United Mexican States City, Mexico.) Church chairperson Henry Norris Russell M. Nelson announced the unexampled temple on Sunday during the church’s twice-yearly conference inwards Salt Lake City, Utah. He did not say when it would start twist or open.

Nevada is home to 180,000 Mormons, or 6% of the state’s population, according to the church.

Las Vegas’ first-class honours degree Mormon temple opened inward 1989 at the home of Frenchman Mountain. When asked wherefore Las Vegas was selected as the situation for the 43rd LDS church, according to a church website, belatedly LDS chairwoman Gordon B. Hinckley replied: “I don’t cognize of any station inwards all the humanity that needs unity more. I don’t cognise of a localize inward the human race where you regard more clearly the direct contrast between immorality and unspoilt than you make inward this city. This set needs a temple.”

Vegas’ Mormon Roots

Members of the LDS church, founded in 1830 by Chief Joseph Smith, were the foremost grouping of Europeans known to feature settled inward Las Vegas. On June 14, 1855, missionaries from Salt Lake City arrived on orders from the church’s second president, Brigham Young, to constitute an outpost at which to convince the Paiute Indians to Mormonism. The expanse was chosen for Mormon enlargement because it was the midway pointedness betwixt the Mormon settlements inwards Southern Mormon State and San Bernardino, Calif.

The Mormons built an adobe closure along a spring-fed creek a mile from what is now downtown Las Vegas. (Remnants of it now centerpiece Old Las Vegas Mormon Fort Historic Park.) After less than two years, the settlers deserted their young rest home to facilitate fighting the UT War, a yearlong armed encounter betwixt the Mormon State Mormons and the armed forces of the US government.

In 1905, the San Pedro, Los Angeles, and Salt Lake railroad brought the Mormons back. Since then, they feature wielded outstanding financial and political work on the evolution of the region, portion to finance and O.K. building of many of the Strip’s casinos.

Former US Senate majority leader Harry Reid, who represented Nevada from 1987 to 2017, came from a small townsfolk 60 miles outside Las Vegas to become the to the highest degree visible and influential Mormon politico inwards the church’s history. Las Vegas’ McCarran Airport was renamed inwards his laurels next Reid’s decease lowest year.