New MTC expansion plans revealed by LDS Church

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints released this preliminary site plan for expansion of its Missionary Training Center in Provo, Utah, on Monday, April 28, 2014. The rendering depicts four new buildings in the lower left hand quadrant, which is south of the current MTC.

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PROVO The LDS Church released preliminary plans Monday for the expansion of its flagship Missionary Training Center in Provo.

Eventually those plans call for a new drive where families will drop off missionaries.

Construction on new, six-story buildings is scheduled to begin in the summer of 2015 and take two years, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced on its website.

The release does not say how many buildings are planned, but the rendering shows four new buildings in place of BYU's laundry and auxiliary maintenance facilities, which are being demolished.

A massive surge in the 18 months since the church lowered the age requirement has boosted the number of missionaries from 58,000 to 85,039.

Once the expansion is complete, the MTC will be able to accommodate 4,500 missionaries at a time, enough for all the missionary training activity expected in Provo.

The MTC currently is designed to hold 3,000 missionaries, but temporary changes like adding more missionaries to each room has increased capacity.

The surge also led the church to open a temporary facility a mile away from the MTC. The temporary facility opened 11 months ago along Freedom Boulevard and was expected to house an additional 1,700 missionaries in some of BYU's Wyview student apartments and at the privately owned Raintree Commons apartment complex.

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