Coeur d’Alene Idaho Temple
The Coeur d’Alene Idaho Temple was the only temple announced in October 2024 that was not on my temple predictions map, although this site was suggested by many blog readers. I had determined Coeur d’Alene too unlikely to have a temple announced given its close proximity to the Spokane Washington Temple (services 13 stakes), albeit this temple is one of the most heavily used temples in the Church due to significant growth in the area for the Church in the past couple decades combined with a small square footage for the building. Thus, it had seemed more likely that the Spokane Washington Temple would be remodeled to expand its size rather than have a second temple announced for the Spokane/Coeur d’Alene metropolitan area. The new temple will be the Church's 10th temple in Idaho following the Idaho Falls Idaho Temple (dedicated in 1945), the Boise Idaho Temple
(dedicated in 1984), the Rexburg Idaho Temple (dedicated in 2008), the
Twin Falls Idaho Temple (dedicated in 2008), the Meridian Idaho Temple
(dedicated in 2017), the Pocatello Idaho Temple (dedicated in 2021), the
Burley Idaho Temple (announced in 2021), the Teton River Idaho
Temple (announced in 2021), and the Montpelier Idaho Temple (announced in 2022). The new temple will likely be a small temple that services four stakes in extreme northern Idaho (three of which are in the Coeur d’Alene area and were organized in 1962, 1999, and 2022) which currently attend the Spokane Washington Temple. These stakes experience steady growth, and additional stakes may be organized if this growth continues in the coming years. The Church has experienced steady moderate growth in this area of Idaho in recent years. As of year-end 2023, there were 476,118 Latter-day Saints meeting in 1,228 congregations. Currently, there are 142 stakes and three missions in Idaho.
Queen Creek Arizona Temple
The Queen Creek Arizona Temple will be the Church's eighth temple in Arizona following the Mesa Arizona Temple (dedicated in 1927), the Snowflake Arizona Temple (dedicated in 2002), The Gila Valley Arizona Temple (dedicated in 2010), the Gilbert Arizona Temple (dedicated in 2014), the Phoenix Arizona Temple (dedicated in 2014), the Tuscon Arizona Temple (dedicated in 2017), and the Yuma Arizona Temple (announced in April 2024). The new temple will likely be a medium to large temple that services 12-15 stakes in the Queen Creek area and surrounding communities to the south which attend the Gilbert Arizona Temple - a temple which has had its temple district grow to 37 stakes. The Church has historically experienced moderate growth rates in Arizona until the mid-2010s and has since experienced very slow growth rates. As of year-end 2023, there were 442,879 Latter-day Saints who met in 924 congregations. There are currently 117 stakes and six missions in Arizona. Queen Creek was listed on my temple predictions map as a less likely location to have a temple announced.
El Paso Texas Temple
The El Paso Texas Temple will be the Church's 10th temple in Texas following the Dallas Texas
Temple (dedicated in 1984), the Houston Texas Temple (dedicated in
2000), the Lubbock Texas Temple (dedicated in 2002), the San Antonio
Texas Temple (dedicated in 2005), the McAllen Texas Temple (dedicated in
2023), the Fort Worth Texas Temple (announced in 2021), the Austin
Texas Temple (announced in April 2022), the McKinney Texas Temple
(announced in October 2022), and the Houston Texas South Temple (announced in April 2024). El Paso has been on my list of more likely locations to have a temple announced for many years due to difficulty for American members to cross the Mexican border to attend the Ciudad Juárez Mexico Temple and distance to the nearest temple within the United States. The new temple will likely be a small temple that services four stakes (three in El Paso, one in Las Cruces, New Mexico) and one district (the Fort Stockton Texas District). The first stake was created in El Paso in 1952 followed by two more stakes in 1982 and 2016. The Church in El Paso has experienced slow growth for many decades, especially compared to the other largest cities in Texas. As of year-end 2023, there were 385,600 Latter-day Saints who met in 751 congregations. There are currently 80 stakes, 12 missions, and two districts in Texas.
Huntsville Alabama Temple
The Huntsville Alabama Temple will be the Church's second temple in Alabama following the Birmingham Alabama Temple (dedicated in 2000). Alabama will be the first state in the traditionally defined region of the "Deep South" to have two temples. The new temple will likely be a small temple that services the two stakes in the Huntsville area (organized in 1968 and 2011) as well as possibly stakes in Gadsden, Alabama (organized in 2019) and Chattanooga, Tennessee (organized in 1978). Stakes in northern Alabama currently attend the Birmingham Alabama Temple. The Church has experienced slow and steady growth in Alabama for many years. Huntsville was listed on my temple predictions map as a less likely location to have a temple announced.
Milwaukee Wisconsin Temple
The Milwaukee Wisconsin Temple will be the Church's first temple in Wisconsin. Prior to the announcement, Wisconsin was the state with the second most Latter-day Saints without a temple within its geographical boundaries. The new temple will likely be a small temple and include all six stakes in Wisconsin which are currently assigned to the Chicago Illinois Temple and the Minneapolis Minnesota Temple. There are two stakes in Milwaukee which were organized in 1963 and 2002. The Church has experienced slow and steady membership growth in Wisconsin for many years. Only one in every 208 people was a Latter-day Saint in Wisconsin as of 2023. The Church reported 28,430 members, 69 congregations, and one mission as of year-end 2023. Milwaukee was listed on my temple predictions map as a less likely location to have a temple announced.
Summit New Jersey Temple
The Summit New Jersey Temple will be the Church's first temple in New Jersey. Prior to the announcement, New Jersey was the state with the most Latter-day Saints without a temple within its geographical boundaries. Currently stakes in New Jersey are assigned to the Manhattan New York Temple and the Philadelphia Pennsylvania Temple. The new temple will likely be a small temple that services five stakes in northern New Jersey. Church growth in New Jersey has been slow but steady for many years. There were 35,453 Latter-day Saints who met in 62 congregations as of year-end 2023. There is one mission in New Jersey. New Jersey has one of the lowest percentages of Latter-day Saints in the population, as there was one Latter-day Saint per every 262 people in 2023. The oldest stake in New Jersey is the Morristown New Jersey Stake which was organized in 1960. The most recently organized stake in New Jersey is the Liberty Park New Jersey Stake (organized in 2015). Scotch Plains, New Jersey (about five miles away from Summit) was listed on my temple predictions map as a less likely location to have a temple announced to service stakes in northern New Jersey.
Price Utah Temple
The Price Utah Temple will be the Church's 31st temple in Utah
following the St.
George Utah Temple (announced in 1871, dedicated in 1877), the Logan
Utah Temple (announced in 1876, dedicated in 1884), the Manti Utah
Temple (announced in 1875, dedicated in 1888), the Salt Lake Temple
(announced in 1847, dedicated in 1893), the Ogden Utah Temple (announced
in 1967, dedicated in 1972), the Provo Utah Temple (announced in 1967,
dedicated in 1972), the Jordan River Utah Temple (announced in 1978,
dedicated in 1981), the Bountiful Utah Temple (announced in 1990,
dedicated in 1995), the Mount Timpanogos Utah Temple (announced in 1992,
dedicated in 1996), the Vernal Utah Temple (announced in 1994,
dedicated in 1997), the Monticello Utah Temple (announced in 1997,
dedicated in 1998), the Draper Utah Temple (announced in 2004, dedicated
in 2009), the Oquirrh Mountain Utah Temple (announced in 2005,
dedicated in 2009), the Brigham City Utah Temple (announced in 2009,
dedicated in 2012), the Payson Utah Temple (announced in 2010, dedicated
in 2015), the Provo City Center Temple (announced in 2011, dedicated in
2016), Cedar City Utah Temple (announced in 2013, dedicated in 2017),
the Saratoga Springs Utah Temple (announced in 2017, dedicated in 2023),
the Layton Utah
Temple (announced in 2018, dedicated in 2024), the Red
Cliffs Utah Temple (announced in 2018, dedicated in 2024), the Deseret
Peak Utah Temple (announced in 2019, scheduled for dedicated in 2024), the Orem Utah Temple (announced in
2019, dedicated in 2024),
the Taylorsville Utah Temple (announced in 2019, dedicated in 2024), the Syracuse Utah
Temple (announced in 2020), the Lindon Utah Temple (announced in 2020),
the Smithfield Utah Temple (announced in 2021), the Ephraim Utah
Temple (announced in 2021), the Heber City Utah Temple (announced in
2021), the West Jordan Utah Temple (announced in April 2024), and the Lehi Utah Temple (announced in April 2024). Price has long been on my list of most likely locations to have a temple announced due to its remote location with five stakes in the immediate Price area as well as three stakes south of Price that are within relatively close proximity (Castle Dale, Ferron, and Huntington). There are three stakes in Price - the oldest of which was organized in 1910. The new temple will likely be a small temple that services eight stakes in Carbon and Emery counties - all of which currently pertain to the Manti Utah Temple district. The Church has experienced stagnant growth in the Price area for many years, and the size of the overall population of this area of Utah has been relatively unchanged for decades. There were 2.19 million Latter-day Saints and 5,417 congregations in Utah as of year-end 2023. There are currently 644 stakes, 13 missions, and six districts in Utah.
25 comments:
Thanks for the updated report. The United States is covering down on its parts with huge distances for members to more conveniently attend the temple, which works out for members who attend, plus of course the patrons who serve there regularly. A noble work, for sure.
I would like to repeat as I have before, there are many counties in our fair country that have no Church of Jesus Christ groups or units. This may gradually change, but it is hard. Also, I wish that more missionary work could be done in the native American reservations. And, the inner cities have been difficult places to crack with Gospel works, but of the three, I would assess this part has been more effective than rural reservations and counties.
A fascinating article/report would be breaking down a state, showing which counties have no LDS Church presence, or where the Indian Reservations are, how the Church of Jesus Christ has outreach there. Also, showing how the wards or branches cover inside urban centers.
This would be more interesting and compelling to me than knowing about personal histories of general authorities. The latter is valuable, but I see these other geographical studies as more valuable for real growth. Dissecting places. Meetings are well and good, predicting speakers. But I would be more interested in places, languages, ethnic groups, missionary placements, movements.
South Dakota and West Virginia, not to mention Maine, are close to having temples, right? I think 2025 should be the time!
Canada sees slow growth, but what movement do we see in the 10 provinces and three territories? Which of Mexico's 30 plus states need the most growth?
Brazil? Peru? Chile? Colombia?
We need another 100,000 missionaries, that is for sure. I think.
Last note: it is amazing that Idaho and Arizona, and soon to be Texas, will have the numbers of temples like it used to be for me in Utah in the 1990s.
Amazing times.
Great info, thanks. You might want to change the first sentence of the entry for Price. I've long thought Price was a likely temple location; but assumed Spanish Fork would come first. I also expected Flagstaff this conference, with a potential of 6-7 stakes served. But queen creek will take pressure off of Gilbert. It seems to be a toss of the dice with regard to these smaller, remote versus larger temple locations. Nampa is another location that would ease the pressure from Meridian, which I'm told is very busy and hard to get in to.
Thanks for noticing this error - It has been fixed.
Went through and looked at how temple districts would be impacted by these most recent announcements (tried to factor in previous announcements of temples also not yet built for the temples affected by these announcements), in terms of number of stakes assigned:
Spokane - 13 to 9
Gilbert - 37 to 22
Ciudad Juarez - 12 to 9
Gila Valley - 6 to 5
Birmingham - 10 to 7
Atlanta - 17 to 16
St Paul MN - 9 to 8
Chicago - 13 to 7-8
Manhattan - 11 to 7
Philadelphia - 8 (after Harrisburg) to 7
Manti - 17 (after Ephraim is finished) to 9
Oaxaca - 6 to 5
Tuxtla Guttierez - 7 to 5
San Salvador - 22 to 13
Bogota - 19 (after Cali) to 15
Santo Domingo - 23 to 16
Concepcion - 26 to 19
Preston - 14 (after Edinburgh and Birmingham) to 12
Rome - 13 to 7
Aba - ~16 (after Calabar, Eket, Benin) to 12
Durban - 10 (after Maputo) to 6
Nairobi - 11 anticipated to 4
Coeur d'Alene will likely be assigned six stakes as there two stakes south of it in Moscow and Lewiston.
This posted on Newsroom site earlier today. The preliminary work started on the Lethbridge Alberta Temple site.
https://news-ca.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/preliminary-work-begins-on-lethbridge-alberta-temple-site
Where will Gila Valley lose a stake?
Moscow Stake is also splitting with a new Pullman Washington Stake. Perhaps both stakes will go to the new CDA Temple, or Pullman goes to Spokane, while Moscow goes to CDA.
Las Cruces NM Stake with 12 units is on the verge of splitting, so it wouldn't surprise me if the new El Paso Temple gets a temple similar in size to Farmington NM (25-30k sq ft) versus a smaller temple like Elko NV (10k sq ft)
This is great information, though I do have a small critique. I feel that this post could have been a good bit shorter if some of the temple lists were tweaked a bit to reduce what feels like bloat. For example, two-thirds of the section for the Price Utah Temple is just a long list of other temples in Utah. I recommend that lists only when below a certain threshold, perhaps five.
An example, instead of
"The new temple will be the Church's 10th temple in Idaho following the Idaho Falls Idaho Temple (dedicated in 1945), the Boise Idaho Temple (dedicated in 1984), the Rexburg Idaho Temple (dedicated in 2008), the Twin Falls Idaho Temple (dedicated in 2008), the Meridian Idaho Temple (dedicated in 2017), the Pocatello Idaho Temple (dedicated in 2021), the Burley Idaho Temple (announced in 2021), the Teton River Idaho Temple (announced in 2021), and the Montpelier Idaho Temple (announced in 2022)."
it would be
"The new temple will be the Church's 10th temple in Idaho."
I hope this reaches you well. It is your blog and ultimately your choice. I have no right to make demands.
One interesting thing is even though Price is assigned to Manti the temple that it takes the least time to drive to is Provo City Center. Payson Utah Temple is also closer to Price. The fastest way to go from Price to Manti involves driving up through Spanish Fork and then coming back south. If you go directly over the mountains further south the road bends back and forth so many times it actually takes longer than if you go up through Spanish Fork. At least this is what Google maps claims.
Based on Aba Temple's size I think even with no new stakes (which in Nigeria is not part of the consideration), the numbers demand at least Port Harcourt gets announced. I think Enugu is also likely.
At some point it would make sense to for Uth just list other temples in the same county, and for Canada to lost only those temples in the effected province and for Mexico and Brazil to list only those temples in the effected state. I have no idea what that point is.
Also I thought Maputo was assigned to Johanesburg, not Durban.
Anonymous, I assume the loss for Gila Valley is predicted to be Silver City to the El Paso temple. However, I am pretty sure that the stake is closer to the Gila Valley by an 30 minutes.
Also, sad to report, the Madera México District (606952), has been disorganized sometime since I last checked in July 2024.
https://maps.churchofjesuschrist.org/stakes/606952
It appears the Madera Branch has become under the leadership of the Mission.
https://maps.churchofjesuschrist.org/wards/174653
What are the requirements for CDOL? I am the Elders Quorum Secretary and apparently don't have access.
Missing the context on this comment:
"At some point it would make sense to for Uth just list other temples in the same county, and for Canada to lost only those temples in the effected province and for Mexico and Brazil to list only those temples in the effected state. I have no idea what that point is."
Plus, the misspellings and poor grammar/lack of clarity is perplexing.
Canada to "lose", no: "list" those temples in the "affected" province.
Mexico and Brazil lists. What are you referring to? Not only are you anonymous, but you are ambiguous/unctuous.
Sorry, just wanting some more clarity and context for cogency.
Looking at West Virginia: it only has three stakes in the main center? The eastern panhandle will report to Winchester, Virginia. The northern tip should go to Pittsburgh. Looks like the state in general may have too few members to support a temple.
Is this the case with South Dakota?
New England seems to suffer such maladies. Should we send more missionaries to these places?
How is the missionary support in India lately? How about Malaysia and Indonesia? Vietnam? Laos still would not have any, I think...
For Brazil and Mexico, I assume they are referring to breaking the lists down by state instead of the entire country. For example, only listing the Curitiba and Londrina temples for Parana state.
For West Virginia, Pittsburgh has the Clarksburg stake, Charleston stake to Columbus, and Huntington to the Louisville temple. Charleston and Huntington both have 6 wards and 5 branches, while Clarksburg has 8 wards and 4 branches. Charleston would be the most central location, with Clarksburg having the possibility of going either way.
Not 100% certain what you mean with South Dakota, but their 2 stakes are on opposite sides of the state, a 5 hour trip between. Rapid City has 8 wards and 7 branches, assigned to Bismarck just under 5 hours away, with Casper being about 40 minutes closer. Sioux Falls with 7 wards and 9 branches is assigned to Winter Quarters, being less than 3 hours away.
I don't think I would be able to answer your questions about missionary support. I think Manchester New Hampshire is very likely for the next New England temple with 3 stakes around the city. Augusta has 10 wards, so enough to split into a possible Portland stake, it should even be able to take a ward each from the Exeter and Bangor stakes, hopefully without diminishing their numbers too much. There are 3 wards closer to Augusta, but are assigned to the Bangor stake. This could also increase the likelihood of a temple in Augusta.
Laos, I think has a branch in the capital, but it's considered "sensitive." While not exclusively from Laos, there are a handful of Hmong congregations in the U.S., one of which meets in the same building I do. I count 3 wards (in Fresno, Minneapolis, and Sacramento) and 6 branches (in Anchorage, Fairfield, Oroville, Sacramento, Stockton, Yuba City). There is a Lao-speaking ward in Salt Lake. Based on that, there are indeed resources available should Laos open up for missionary work. I kind of skimmed this and while there doesn't seem to be any real restrictions for the Church in Laos, it appears the government requires approval for many things before any given church can implement them (including boundary changes, new congregations, building or converting places for worship, etc). For those who might be a bit more interested than I am, here's what I found:
https://www.state.gov/reports/2023-report-on-international-religious-freedom/laos/#:~:text=According%20to%20the%202015%20national,groups%20or%20did%20not%20state
I guess I missed the part where there have been many instances in the past couple of years of persecution of Christians in rural areas of Laos. That could certainly put a damper on things if a lot of people there are going to be hostile towards the Church.
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The Silver City stake I thought was assigned to the Albuquerque Temple. The Las Cruces Stake is assigned to Albuquerque for sure.
I know the temple was announced for El Paso, but the church already owns a good size lot in Mesilla, which is in Las Cruces. If the temple was built on that property, then for sure the temple district would be the three El Paso stakes, one district in Texas, the Las Cruces Stake (which is close to splitting) and the Silver City stake.
If the temple is built in El Paso, I don't know if Silver City will change temples.
The Las Cruces Stake has 14 units (11 wards, 3 branches). 1 ward is an University or singles ward. If 1 or 2 wards split, then the stake could also split. The most difficult part is that the area has a lot of transition due to university students moving in and then leaving after graduation, and military personnel movement. Married university students attend family wards, so it's not just the singles ward continually changing.
The property in Mesilla could easily fit a temple and new stake center. It is easy to get to from I-10. Mesilla does have some weird zoning considerations, so that could also be a factor for not building there.
Sorry, I meant the Las Cruces stake has 12 units. 9 wards and 3 branches.
Driving from Price to Manti, you turn off the highway to head South before going through the last canyon into Spanish Fork.
This area does get closed when there are bad snow storms, other times snow tires or chains are required.
Looks like Golden Valley Branch was upgraded to a ward in the other Kingman Stake as part of this split.
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