Reports from Latter-day Saints living in Tanzania indicate that the Church will organize its first stake in the East African nation of Tanzania this Sunday. The Dar es Salaam Tanzania Stake will be created from the Dar es Salaam Tanzania District, which was organized in 2005. Currently, there are 10 branches in the district, but it is unclear how many of these branches will become wards once the stake is organized.
Among countries with at least 2,000 Latter-day Saints, Tanzania provides a remarkable example of a nation that has experienced a dramatic shift from slow or stagnant growth to some of the most rapid growth rates in the worldwide Church over the past decade. From 2004 to 2018, there were only four branches in Dar es Salaam. It took nearly three decades for the Church to reach 2,000 members after its initial establishment in 1992. However, everything changed with the organization of the Tanzania Dar es Salaam Mission in 2020. Before this, the Kenya Nairobi Mission oversaw missionary efforts and Church administration in Tanzania, which meant limited resources were allocated to the nation’s 65.4 million people (2024 estimate).
Another major catalyst for growth was the Church’s decision in the 2010s to officially change the language used in Church administration and worship services from English to Swahili, enabling more effective missionary efforts. Church membership in Tanzania grew from 1,793 at the end of 2019 to 3,969 by the end of 2023. The number of branches in the country also increased significantly, from six in 2018 to 34 as of the end of 2024. Many of these new branches began as member groups to improve accessibility to worship services in major cities with an official Church presence.
Three additional districts were organized during this period of rapid growth: a second district in Dar es Salaam in 2022 (which reportedly will not be realigned or combined with the new stake) and the first districts in Arusha (2022) and Mwanza (2023). Given the higher member activity standards for new stake organization outside the United States, which were implemented in 2024, the creation of the first stake in Tanzania is an even greater accomplishment and a testament to the quality of this recent growth.
The creation of a second stake in Dar es Salaam also appears likely, as the Dar es Salaam Tanzania Chang'ombe District currently has eight branches and has experienced similarly impressive growth rates. Furthermore, the announcement of a temple in Dar es Salaam seems increasingly plausible given these developments, which establish a more self-sustaining center of strength for the Church in the area.
Despite this progress, the Church in Tanzania remains relatively small compared to the nation’s population. As of the end of 2023, only one in every 17,000 Tanzanians was a member on Church records, and only five cities have had branches organized.
For statistical data on the Church in Tanzania, click here.
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«Oldest ‹Older 401 – 404 of 404Wikipedia does not have an article on Hermes Mayamba, the stake president who is a member of the DR Congo national Parliament. Current rules in Wikipedia say all members of national parliaments (and next lower level legislatures/whatever else they are called) are default notable. This means as long as you can verify their office the article will be kept, even if no sources are reliable independent secondary sources. Most of the time you need the latter to keep the article. The thing is Wikipedia has articles on almost all current members of legislatures in most US states, but does not even come close to having articles on call current members of national legislatures in some countries. I am not sure that applying this rule to legislatures especially at the sub-national level is actually reasonable, Wikipedia has a lot of very low quality 1-2 sentence articles on Olympic competitors because they used yo be considered default notable. In about December 2021 it was decided that only Olympic medalists are default notable and in June 2022 it was decided all sports figures needed to have at least 1 reliable non-database source to have an article, but because of the sheer mass of Olymoic articles and hoe one editor literally turned our 10 plus an hour without even looking to try to build full biographies even on those who could have them, most of the low quality against policy Olympic bios still exist. So I would recommend is someone chooses to create an article on Hermes Mayamba they not only use the Church News and newsroom sources, but spend a good amount of time hunting for other sources, in English, French, and if you have skill in it also Lingala and Kikongo.
My initial search did not find anything reliable, just YouTube. I found this https://talatala.cd/deputes/824/ but do not know if it is reliable. Since I am currently under a religion topic ban on Wikupedia because of something that happened in August 2021 and in October 2022 when I asked for it to be lifted thry almost banned me from editing Wikipedia at all, I am not about to create the article. This may be a case where the rule about reliable sources is directly creating uneven coverage. If someone knows a way to find reliable sources in the DR Congo that would really help. That source, the Africa Newsroom article, and the announcement of new stake presidents today in the Church News could create something, but finding a few more sources would make it better.
I did not expect on one post to have more comments than there are Latter-Day Saint, Church of Jesus Christ temples. Wow. We need a new update, for sure.
Which will be the top baptizing nations this year, 2025?
US, Brazil, Mexico, Congo, Nigeria?
Which countries will lose the most? Ukraine, Russia?
Isaiah Ch 2:1-5
1 The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
2 And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.
3 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
4 And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
5 O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the Lord.
"The New Colossus"
by American poet Emma Lazarus (cast in bronze at the base of the Statue of Liberty):
"Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
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