The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints recently released an exterior rendering of the Jakarta Indonesia Temple, to be the Southeast Asian country’s first Latter-day Saint temple.
Site plans released in March 2024 state the milestone temple will cover an area of approximately 50,000 square feet and stand on a nearly 1.5-acre site located at Synthesis Square, Jalan Gatot, Subroto No. 177a, Tebet District, City of South Jakarta, Special Capital Region of Jakarta.
Accompanying the three-story temple to be built on the site will also be an ancillary building with arrival facilities, a meetinghouse and patron housing.
“Jesus Christ is the reason we build temples,” said then-church President Russell M. Nelson, just prior to announcing the Jakarta temple and 14 others in April 2023.
Each temple is “his holy house,” President Nelson taught, then adding that “making covenants and receiving essential ordinances in the temple, as well as seeking to draw closer to him there, will bless your life in ways no other kind of worship can.”
To be the first temple in Indonesia, the Jakarta temple will serve the nearly 8,000 Latter-day Saints that worship in about 25 congregations. Until the temple is built and dedicated, Latter-day Saints in Jakarta will continue to worship in the Bangkok Thailand Temple, located an approximately 1,400 miles away.
