The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has filed plans in Henrico County for its first temple in Virginia.

Leaders from the church, based in Salt Lake City and widely known as the Mormon church, submitted detailed plans to the county planning department for a 36,000-square-foot, two-story temple and a 16,000-square-foot meetinghouse on about 11 acres at Staples Mill and Mountain roads.

The plans include a 151-foot tower topped with a statue of the angel Moroni, an important religious figure and symbol of the church, as well as ample green space and landscaping, and about 240 parking spaces.

Church President Russell M. Nelson announced in April that the group — which last year began shunning the term “Mormon” — was planning to develop a temple on three parcels it bought for $2.3 million from 2015 to 2017. The land is near a pair of other large religious structures, the Hindu Center of Virginia and the Glen Allen Church of Christ.

Virginia is home to about 100,000 church members, according to the church’s news website, but the closest temple is in Kensington, Md., a Washington suburb.

There are more than 200 temples worldwide, with just over 80 in the U.S.