The dedication date for the Yorba Linda California Temple is June 7, the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has announced.
The 10 a.m. dedication session, which will be broadcast to all units in the temple area, will be rebroadcast the same day at 2 p.m. The leader who will chair the meeting has not yet been announced.
In the weeks leading up to the dedication, an open house for the House of the Lord will be held from April 30 to May 23, excluding Sundays. A media day will also be held on Monday, April 27, and invited guests will tour Yorba Linda Temple April 28-29.
These dates were first published in a Jan. 12 news release on ChurchofJesusChrist.org.
The Yorba Linda Temple will be dedicated on the same day as the Oregon Willamette Valley Temple.
This will be the first time in Church history that two temples will be dedicated on the same day and at the same time.
Previously, the closest this distinction came was on May 21, 2000, at the dedications of the Nashville Tennessee Temple and the Villahermosa Mexico Temple. The time zones are the same from November to March, but differ by one hour from March to November, when most of the United States observes daylight saving time.
About Yorba Linda Temple
The Yorba Linda Temple is currently scheduled to be the ninth dedicated House of the Lord in California, but the second temple in Orange County, California. It is connected to the Newport Beach California Temple, located approximately 32 miles south.
The Yorba Linda Temple is planned as a one-story, approximately 30,000-square-foot building on 5.4 acres at the intersection of Bastanchury Road and Osmond Street in Yorba Linda, California.
The late President Russell M. Nelson announced the Temple for Yorba Linda on April 4, 2021. It was one of 20 temple locations he identified in April 2021 general conference, the most temples he announced at the conference. President Nelson plans to announce another 20 temples in October 2023.
A groundbreaking ceremony was held on June 18, 2022 to begin the construction phase of the Yorba Linda Temple. Elder Mark A. Bragg, a General Authority Seventy and then president of the North America West Area, presided over the ceremony and offered the dedicatory prayer on site.
Citing Yorba Linda’s motto, “A Land of Gracious Living,” Elder Bragg said, “This house of the Lord will represent the very best in gracious living, and those who enter it will leave with a higher commitment to gracious living. . . . We are committed to being neighbors of gracious living.”
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California, one of the western states of the United States along the Pacific coast, currently has 12 announced master homes in operation, under construction or renovation.
Eight locations have already been built: Los Angeles (completed in 1956), Oakland (1964), San Diego (1993), Fresno (2000), Redlands (2003), Newport Beach (2005), Sacramento (2006), and Feather River (2023).
Of note, the San Diego Temple closed in July 2023 for major renovations and remains temporarily inoperable.
In addition to the Yorba Linda Temple, the Modesto California Temple is also currently under construction since groundbreaking in October 2023.
The final two Houses of the Lord, the Sunnyvale Temple and the Bakersfield Temple, are in the planning stages and both will be announced in April 2023.
Latter-day Saints first arrived in California, then Yerba Buena, on July 31, 1846. The company, with approximately 230 employees, tripled the population of Yerba Buena and helped create the prosperous city of San Francisco.
On July 6, 1851, the San Bernardino Stake was organized as the first stake in California. Eight California stakes were established in the 1930s, five in the 1940s, and 30 in the 1950s.
Currently, approximately 729,000 members of the Church live in approximately 1,100 congregations in California. This makes it the second-largest Latter-day Saint state in the United States after Utah.
California currently has 16 missions. On July 1, three more missions will be established across the province, headquartered in Oceanside and Victorville, Ont. These three cities are within a 90-mile radius of Yorba Linda.
