“Dedications Bring Operating Temples Worldwide to 122,” Liahona, Oct. 2005, N4–N6

Dedications Bring Operating Temples Worldwide to 122

With the recent dedications of the San Antonio Texas, Aba Nigeria, and Newport Beach California Temples, the total number of operating temples around the world has now reached 122.

Since President Gordon B. Hinckley was called to lead the Church in 1995, the Lord has directed temple construction in a way few expected. In the last 10 years, 84 temples have been announced or dedicated—nearly double the 47 temples dedicated in the previous 118 years.

President Hinckley has said that the temple is a place where we can learn more about life after death and the purpose of this life.

“Every temple that this Church has built has in effect stood as a monument to our belief in the immortality of the human soul, that this phase of mortal life through which we pass is part of a continuous upward climb, so to speak, and that as certain as there is life here, there will be life there,” he said. “That is our firm belief. It comes about through the Atonement of the Savior, and the temple becomes, as I have indicated, the bridge from this life to the next” (“Words of the Living Prophet,” Liahona, May 2001, 16).

The 122 operating temples include the Apia Samoa Temple, which was rededicated on September 4, 2005, after the original structure was destroyed by fire in 2003. An additional nine temples are under construction or have been announced.

Temples around the World

Operating Temples	Dedication Date
1 St. George Utah	April 6, 1877
2 Logan Utah	May 17, 1884
3 Manti Utah	May 21, 1888
4 Salt Lake	April 6, 1893
5 Laie Hawaii	November 27, 1919
6 Cardston Alberta	August 26, 1923
7 Mesa Arizona	October 23, 1927
8 Idaho Falls Idaho	September 23, 1945
9 Bern Switzerland	September 11, 1955
10 Los Angeles California	March 11, 1956
11 Hamilton New Zealand	April 20, 1958
12 London England	September 7, 1958
13 Oakland California	November 19, 1964
14 Ogden Utah	January 18, 1972
15 Provo Utah	February 9, 1972
16 Washington D.C.	November 19, 1974
17 São Paulo Brazil	October 30, 1978
18 Tokyo Japan	October 27, 1980
19 Seattle Washington	November 17, 1980
20 Jordan River Utah	November 16, 1981
21 Atlanta Georgia	June 1, 1983
22 Apia Samoa	August 5, 1983
23 Nuku‘alofa Tonga	August 9, 1983
24 Santiago Chile	September 15, 1983
25 Papeete Tahiti	October 27, 1983
26 Mexico City Mexico	December 2, 1983
27 Boise Idaho	May 25, 1984
28 Sydney Australia	September 20, 1984
29 Manila Philippines	September 25, 1984
30 Dallas Texas	October 19, 1984
31 Taipei Taiwan	November 17, 1984
32 Guatemala City Guatemala	December 14, 1984
33 Freiberg Germany	June 29, 1985
34 Stockholm Sweden	July 2, 1985
35 Chicago Illinois	August 9, 1985
36 Johannesburg South Africa	August 24, 1985
37 Seoul Korea	December 14, 1985
38 Lima Peru	January 10, 1986
39 Buenos Aires Argentina	January 17, 1986
40 Denver Colorado	October 24, 1986
41 Frankfurt Germany	August 28, 1987
42 Portland Oregon	August 19, 1989
43 Las Vegas Nevada	December 16, 1989
44 Toronto Ontario	August 25, 1990
45 San Diego California	April 25, 1993
46 Orlando Florida	October 9, 1994
47 Bountiful Utah	January 8, 1995
48 Hong Kong China	May 26, 1996
49 Mount Timpanogos Utah	October 13, 1996
50 St. Louis Missouri	June 1, 1997
51 Vernal Utah	November 2, 1997
52 Preston England	June 7, 1998
53 Monticello Utah	July 26, 1998
54 Anchorage Alaska	January 9, 1999
55 Colonia Juárez Chihuahua Mexico	March 6, 1999
56 Madrid Spain	March 19, 1999
57 Bogotá Colombia	April 24, 1999
58 Guayaquil Ecuador	August 1, 1999
59 Spokane Washington	August 21, 1999
60 Columbus Ohio	September 4, 1999
61 Bismarck North Dakota	September 19, 1999
62 Columbia South Carolina	October 16, 1999
63 Detroit Michigan	October 23, 1999
64 Halifax Nova Scotia	November 14, 1999
65 Regina Saskatchewan	November 14, 1999
66 Billings Montana	November 20, 1999
67 Edmonton Alberta	December 11, 1999
68 Raleigh North Carolina	December 18, 1999
69 St. Paul Minnesota	January 9, 2000
70 Kona Hawaii	January 23, 2000
71 Ciudad Juárez Mexico	February 26, 2000
72 Hermosillo Sonora Mexico	February 27, 2000
73 Albuquerque New Mexico	March 5, 2000
74 Oaxaca Mexico	March 11, 2000
75 Tuxtla Gutiérrez Mexico	March 12, 2000
76 Louisville Kentucky	March 19, 2000
77 Palmyra New York	April 6, 2000
78 Fresno California	April 9, 2000
79 Medford Oregon	April 16, 2000
80 Memphis Tennessee	April 23, 2000
81 Reno Nevada	April 23, 2000
82 Cochabamba Bolivia	April 30, 2000
83 Tampico Mexico	May 20, 2000
84 Nashville Tennessee	May 21, 2000
85 Villahermosa Mexico	May 21, 2000
86 Montréal Québec	June 4, 2000
87 San José Costa Rica	June 4, 2000
88 Fukuoka Japan	June 11, 2000
89 Adelaide Australia	June 15, 2000
90 Melbourne Australia	June 16, 2000
91 Suva Fiji	June 18, 2000
92 Mérida Mexico	July 8, 2000
93 Veracruz Mexico	July 9, 2000
94 Baton Rouge Louisiana	July 16, 2000
95 Oklahoma City Oklahoma	July 30, 2000
96 Caracas Venezuela	August 20, 2000
97 Houston Texas	August 26, 2000
98 Birmingham Alabama	September 3, 2000
99 Santo Domingo Dominican Republic	September 17, 2000
100 Boston Massachusetts	October 1, 2000
101 Recife Brazil	December 15, 2000
102 Porto Alegre Brazil	December 17, 2000
103 Montevideo Uruguay	March 18, 2001
104 Winter Quarters Nebraska	April 22, 2001
105 Guadalajara Mexico	April 29, 2001
106 Perth Australia	May 20, 2001
107 Columbia River Washington	November 18, 2001
108 Snowflake Arizona	March 3, 2002
109 Lubbock Texas	April 21, 2002
110 Monterrey Mexico	April 28, 2002
111 Campinas Brazil	May 17, 2002
112 Asunción Paraguay	May 19, 2002
113 Nauvoo Illinois	June 27, 2002
114 The Hague Netherlands	September 8, 2002
115 Brisbane Australia	June 15, 2003
116 Redlands California	September 14, 2003
117 Accra Ghana	January 11, 2004
118 Copenhagen Denmark	May 23, 2004
119 Manhattan New York	June 13, 2004
120 San Antonio Texas	May 22, 2005
121 Aba Nigeria	August 7, 2005
122 Newport Beach California	August 28, 2005

Announced or under Construction

Temple	Announcement Date
A1 Harrison New York	September 30, 1995
A2 Kiev Ukraine	July 20, 1998
A3 Helsinki Finland	April 2, 2000
A4 Sacramento California	April 21, 2001
A5 Curitiba Brazil	August 23, 2002
A6 Panamá City Panamá	August 23, 2002
A7 Rexburg Idaho	December 20, 2003
A8 Draper Utah	October 2, 2004
A9 Twin Falls Idaho	October 2, 2004

Temples by the Numbers

1877	Year the St. George Utah Temple was dedicated, the oldest currently operating temple.
16	Temples dedicated in the following 100 years, ending with the São Paulo Brazil Temple in 1978.
26	Temples dedicated during the 1980s, the most in any decade until 2000—including the 25 dedicated in the 1990s.
37	Temples dedicated in 2000, the most in any year.
4	Temples dedicated by President Gordon B. Hinckley in an eight-day period from June 11–18, 2000, the most ever in that time span.
6	Countries with at least one dedicated temple in 1978.
40	Countries with at least one dedicated or announced temple in 2005.
40	Years the Salt Lake Temple was under construction.
4	Calendar years since 1980 during which no temple was dedicated: 1982, 1988, 1991, and 1992.
26	Years between the dedication of the Salt Lake Temple and the Laie Hawaii Temple, the longest span between dedications among currently operating temples.
4	Times two temples have been dedicated on the same day since the small temple building program was announced.
253,015	Square footage (23,500 m²) of the Salt Lake Temple (including annex), the largest temple in the Church.
280	Height, in feet (85 m), of the Washington D.C. Temple, the tallest in the Church.