The Provo City Center Temple is a temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on the same site as the former Provo Tabernacle in Provo, Utah. The temple utilizes much of the external shell of the tabernacle, all that remained of the original building after a fire in December 2010.
The intent to construct the temple was announced by church president Thomas S. Monson on October 1, 2011, during the church’s semi-annual general conference. The temple was announced concurrently with those to be built in Barranquilla, Colombia; Durban, South Africa; Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo; and Star Valley, Wyoming, along with the temple in Paris, France which had been previously announced. At the time, this brought the total number of temples worldwide (either completed, under construction or announced) to 166 and the number of temples in Utah to sixteen. This will be the second city in the LDS Church to have two temples, the first being South Jordan, Utah with the Jordan River and Oquirrh Mountain temples. This will be the second tabernacle in Utah to be converted to a temple, the first being the Vernal Utah Temple. It is one of only two LDS temples not to include the name of the state/province or country in which the temple is located (the other being the Salt Lake Temple)
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