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PROVO —- A new meetinghouse planned for Provo will house 48 wards and four stakes of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The typical meetinghouse in Utah generally houses from one to three wards.
The new structure is planned for the corner of 900 East and 300 North in Provo. It is described as a dual-purpose "facility" that includes a site to hold stake conference meetings, and a four-pod configuration to house leadership and clerk offices and interview rooms for four stakes and 48 wards of BYU student and young single adult LDS members.
Terry Cano of the LDS Church's Meetinghouse Facilities Department told the Deseret News, "It's the very first one of its kind. We don't know if it will ever be built again."
The new facility will include 53,000 square feet. Its chapel can seat 500-plus, and with chairs in an overflow area the conference crowd can increase to more than 1,600. Another several hundred can watch a video broadcast from another room at the far end of the building.
Cano said the project is currently out to bid, with construction expected to start next month. It should be finished by summer of 2012.
Written with contributions from Scott Taylor.
