LDS Church announces Philadelphia temple site

The site of the future Philadelphia Pennsylvania Temple has been announced by the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

The temple will be located at 1739 Vine St. in downtown Philadelphia, on the northeast corner of Vine and North 18th streets. The site most recently has been a parking lot.

The temple was one of five announced by LDS Church President Thomas S. Monson at the church's October 2008 general conference and is one of 21 such temples that either have been announced or are under construction. The church has 130 temples in operation worldwide.

Just west of the Benjamin Franklin Bridge as the Vine Street Expressway (I-676) crosses the Delaware River, the temple site is located next to the Family Courts Building. On the other side of the expressway is historic Logan Square diagonally to the southwest, and the Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia and Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul to the south.

The Philadelphia temple has been reported to be a multistoried design similar in function to the LDS Church's multiple-use temples in Hong Kong and Manhattan, N.Y.

— Scott Taylor