October 20, 2025, 2:12pm MDT
Exterior renderings have been released for the Tulsa Oklahoma Temple, the Lord’s second home in Oklahoma, and the Savai’i Samoa Temple, the Lord’s second home in Samoa.
These renderings were first published in an Oct. 20 news release on ChurchofJesusChrist.org.
On October 1, 2023, the late President of the Church Russell M. Nelson announced Houses of the Lord in both Tulsa and Savais in general conference. This is the second time President Nelson has announced the locations of 20 temples, making it the most identified at one time.
Tulsa Oklahoma Temple
As previously announced, the Tulsa Temple will be a one-story building measuring approximately 29,600 square feet. It will be built on a 25.7-acre site at the northwest corner of 51st Street and 136th East Street in Tulsa, Tulsa County, Oklahoma.
The Oklahoma City Oklahoma Temple, the first of two temples in the state, was dedicated on July 30, 2000 by President James E. Faust, Second Counselor in the First Presidency. After extensive renovations, it was rededicated on May 19, 2019 by then-President Henry B. Eyring, Second Counselor in the First Presidency.
Oklahoma’s first Latter-day Saint congregation was founded in 1921 in Gore, Oklahoma, about 90 miles southeast of Tulsa. The state’s first church meetinghouse was built in 1892 in Manard, Cherokee County.
The first stakes in Oklahoma were established in 1960, one in Tulsa on May 1 and the other in Oklahoma City on October 23. The Oklahoma Mission was established on June 10, 1970.
Tulsa is the second most populous city in Oklahoma, home to more than 53,000 members in 94 congregations.
Savai’i Samoan Temple
Planned as a one-story building measuring approximately 29,630 square feet, Sabai’i Temple will be built on a 4.6-acre site. The master’s house, the first of its kind on the island, will be located on plots 1098 to 1105 in Fataroa, a sub-area of Salelologa village on the southeastern tip of Savai’i Island.
One of the currently operating temples in Samoa is the Apia Samoa Temple, which was dedicated on August 5, 1983 by President Gordon B. Hinckley, then Second Counselor in the First Presidency. It was the church’s 22nd operating temple. Later, after a fire necessitated rebuilding, the Presidency rededicated the temple on September 4, 2005.
Another master’s home is under construction on Tutuila Island, part of American Samoa, about 125 miles southeast of Apia. A groundbreaking ceremony for the Pago Pago American Samoa Temple was held on October 30, 2021, presided over by Elder K. Brett Nattress, a General Authority Seventy and first counselor in the Church’s Pacific Area Presidency at the time.
The Independent State of Samoa consists of two main islands, the large islands of Savai’i and Upolu, two smaller inhabited islands, and several smaller uninhabited islands.
Missionaries first taught the restored gospel of Jesus Christ in the Samoan Islands in 1863, and a formal mission was organized in 1888. In 1962 Samoa became one of the first countries to have stakes organized outside the United States. Twelve years later, it became the first nation to be organized entirely in stakes, without small districts.
Samoa has nearly 90,000 Latter-day Saints in more than 165 congregations.
