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A chart shows the annual total number of temples — dedicated, under construction and announced, distinguished by separate colors — of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints over the past 50 years, from 1976 to 2025. Graphic from Church News.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has been organized for nearly 200 years and has a total of just under 400 temples that are dedicated, under construction or in planning.
However, the simple math of dividing the total temples by the number of years doesn’t work here — one can’t assume the Church added a temple or two every year of its existence so far.
Dedications of temples have gone from infrequent events for houses of the Lord built near the main body of Saints through the 1800s to now 211 and counting dedicated houses of the Lord worldwide.
After its 1830 organization in New York, the Church ended the 19th century with four dedicated and operating temples, all in Utah — the St. George, Logan, Manti and Salt Lake temples. That was after leaving temples in Kirtland, Ohio, and Nauvoo, Illinois, before the pioneer exodus to the Salt Lake Valley.
