The groundbreaking ceremony will be held on Saturday, March 19, Elder Hugo E. Martinez, Africa West Area president, will preside at the event. Attendance at the site will be by invitation only. The Freetown Sierra Leone Temple will be built on a 2. Plans call for a single-story temple of approximately 18, square feet with a two-story ancillary building that will contain an arrival center, patron housing, presidency apartments, ordinance worker apartments and utility buildings.
This will be the eighteenth temple in Africa. There are more than 21, Latter-day Saints in the Freetown Sierra Leone Temple district, with approximately 70 congregations. All are welcome to attend Sunday worship services and other weekday activities at local meetinghouses.
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