The Shift in LDS Temple Building: What You Need to Know
Descrição
LDS temple construction has changed more in five years than in the previous fifty. Factory-built modules, standard floor plans and a deliberate slowdown are reshaping how temples rise around the world.
This video follows the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' temple building program as it stands in September 2026, with 386 temples dedicated, under construction or announced. We look at the Helena Montana Temple, the first modular LDS temple, built as 25 modules in Bessemer, Alabama and assembled on site in about two weeks. We cover how the Church's standard temple floor plans scale from roughly 10,000 square feet in Beira, Mozambique to about 80,000 in Spanish Fork, Utah, and how regional design gives each temple a local face. We also cover the Salt Lake Temple renovation and its base isolation system, built to withstand a magnitude 7.3 earthquake ahead of the April 2027 open house. Then we explain why President Dallin H. Oaks slowed temple announcements in October 2025,
and what that means for the 108 temples still in planning. If you have wondered how long it takes to build an LDS temple now, this is the answer.
Sources: Church Newsroom, Church News, Deseret News, KSL, LDS Living, ChurchofJesusChristTemples.org, Coeur d'Alene Press. Full list pinned below.
Chapters
00:00 Three Temples, One System
01:33 A Temple Built in a Factory
03:30 Standard Temple Floor Plans
04:45 Local Design, Standard Bones
05:47 Salt Lake Temple Seismic Retrofit
07:02 Why Oaks Slowed Temple Announcements
08:04 Who Decides Temple Design
09:23 What to Watch at Conference
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Sources:
• Church Newsroom: Temple open house and dedication dates (386 total temples).
• Church Newsroom: See 50 Years of Temple Growth in 4 Charts (Jan 7, 2026).
• Church News: 6 maps show locations of Church's 383 temples (Jan 5, 2026).
• Church Newsroom: The Church Is Using a New Way to Build Temples (May 15, 2023).
• Deseret News: Helena Montana Temple is the first modular Latter-day Saint temple (May 15, 2023).
• LDS Living: Modular temples? (May 17, 2023).
• Church News: Technology making the Helena temple construction fast, efficient (May 16, 2023).
• ChurchofJesusChristTemples.org: Helena Montana Temple news (cornerstone statement); Temple Designs library (2020s standard plans); Salt Lake Temple news; Temple Construction News (Managua, Wichita, San Luis Potosí open houses). Independent tracker.
• Wikipedia: List of temples (LDS Church) (Kimball and Hinckley standard designs).
• ABC4 / Yahoo News: Spanish Fork Utah Temple location and Beira Mozambique Temple size
(2026).
• Coeur d'Alene Press: New LDS temple to seek design approval (Mar 25, 2026).
• Deseret News: Salt Lake Temple public open house to last six months in 2027 (Feb 14, 2025).
• KSL: Salt Lake Temple to hold open house in 2027; Church leaders opt to 'slow down' temple
announcements (Oct 5, 2025).
• Deseret News: New temples announced under President Oaks (May 29, 2026).
• Temples.org: Dallin H. Oaks and the New Temple Announcement Era (May 29, 2026).
• Wikipedia: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah (32 temples; 2,206,370 members, 2025).
This video follows the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' temple building program as it stands in September 2026, with 386 temples dedicated, under construction or announced. We look at the Helena Montana Temple, the first modular LDS temple, built as 25 modules in Bessemer, Alabama and assembled on site in about two weeks. We cover how the Church's standard temple floor plans scale from roughly 10,000 square feet in Beira, Mozambique to about 80,000 in Spanish Fork, Utah, and how regional design gives each temple a local face. We also cover the Salt Lake Temple renovation and its base isolation system, built to withstand a magnitude 7.3 earthquake ahead of the April 2027 open house. Then we explain why President Dallin H. Oaks slowed temple announcements in October 2025,
and what that means for the 108 temples still in planning. If you have wondered how long it takes to build an LDS temple now, this is the answer.
Sources: Church Newsroom, Church News, Deseret News, KSL, LDS Living, ChurchofJesusChristTemples.org, Coeur d'Alene Press. Full list pinned below.
Chapters
00:00 Three Temples, One System
01:33 A Temple Built in a Factory
03:30 Standard Temple Floor Plans
04:45 Local Design, Standard Bones
05:47 Salt Lake Temple Seismic Retrofit
07:02 Why Oaks Slowed Temple Announcements
08:04 Who Decides Temple Design
09:23 What to Watch at Conference
More in the playlist: LDS Church Explained
New institutional analysis every week. Subscribe if that is your kind of video.
#ldstemples #templeconstruction #latterdaysaints
Sources:
• Church Newsroom: Temple open house and dedication dates (386 total temples).
• Church Newsroom: See 50 Years of Temple Growth in 4 Charts (Jan 7, 2026).
• Church News: 6 maps show locations of Church's 383 temples (Jan 5, 2026).
• Church Newsroom: The Church Is Using a New Way to Build Temples (May 15, 2023).
• Deseret News: Helena Montana Temple is the first modular Latter-day Saint temple (May 15, 2023).
• LDS Living: Modular temples? (May 17, 2023).
• Church News: Technology making the Helena temple construction fast, efficient (May 16, 2023).
• ChurchofJesusChristTemples.org: Helena Montana Temple news (cornerstone statement); Temple Designs library (2020s standard plans); Salt Lake Temple news; Temple Construction News (Managua, Wichita, San Luis Potosí open houses). Independent tracker.
• Wikipedia: List of temples (LDS Church) (Kimball and Hinckley standard designs).
• ABC4 / Yahoo News: Spanish Fork Utah Temple location and Beira Mozambique Temple size
(2026).
• Coeur d'Alene Press: New LDS temple to seek design approval (Mar 25, 2026).
• Deseret News: Salt Lake Temple public open house to last six months in 2027 (Feb 14, 2025).
• KSL: Salt Lake Temple to hold open house in 2027; Church leaders opt to 'slow down' temple
announcements (Oct 5, 2025).
• Deseret News: New temples announced under President Oaks (May 29, 2026).
• Temples.org: Dallin H. Oaks and the New Temple Announcement Era (May 29, 2026).
• Wikipedia: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah (32 temples; 2,206,370 members, 2025).
Palavra-chave: beira mozambique
Comentários da comunidade
@scriptureuncovered-z6a YouTube · 08/10/2026
One detail that didn't fit in the video: at the Helena open house, Church leaders said there are no large or small temples, and no modular or brick-and-mortar temples, because the ordinances inside are identical. The Church still doesn't publish what any individual temple costs to build. With 108 temples in planning at the start of the year, do you think the slowdown in announcements ends at conference next weekend, or is this the new normal?