The Cincinnati Ohio Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has officially entered its construction phase, following a groundbreaking ceremony held Saturday, November 7, in Mason, the Church News reported.
Elder Alan T. Phillips, a General Authority Seventy, presided over the groundbreaking and offered the dedicatory prayer on the site and the construction process, according to the Church News. Local Latter-day Saints, faith and government leaders, and community members attended the ceremony, which was livestreamed, with photos and information published November 7 on ChurchofJesusChrist.org.
The temple will be a single-story building of approximately 29,630 square feet, the Church News reported. It is being built on a 35-acre site southwest of the intersection of Mason-Montgomery Road and Cedar Village Drive in Mason, a Warren County suburb about 20 miles northeast of downtown Cincinnati.
When it is completed and dedicated, the Cincinnati Ohio Temple will become the third operating temple in the state, the Church News reported. It will join the Columbus Ohio Temple, dedicated in September 1999, and the Cleveland Ohio Temple, dedicated in August 2026 — meaning Ohio will have gone from one temple for more than two decades to three in a span of a few years.
The groundbreaking also comes just months after Ohio’s second temple opened in Cleveland, making the Mason construction start the latest marker of the church’s growth across the state. For Warren County, the project brings a major multi-year construction effort — and, when finished, a landmark that will draw visitors from across the Cincinnati region — to the Mason-Montgomery Road corridor.
The Mason site sits in one of the fastest-growing corridors in Southwest Ohio, along Mason-Montgomery Road near Cedar Village Drive — a location the church selected to serve Latter-day Saint congregations across the northern Cincinnati suburbs and Warren County. A 35-acre site gives the project room for the temple itself, grounds, and parking in a part of the region where large parcels near major corridors have grown scarce.
No completion date was announced in the Church News report. Temples of this size typically move from groundbreaking through construction, an open house period, and dedication over a period of years; NewsForce247 will track the project’s milestones as the church announces them.