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[All-American]

The corollaries between professional baseball and church are endless.

Baseball in general is endless.

[falafel]

Is it to save money?

Saving money is probably why the church is building 12 new temples across the globe

[Donuthole]

Saving money is probably why the church is building 12 new temples across the globe

New temple in WaCo, Utah. I predict it will get built and dedicated and then they will promptly shut down the St. G temple for a year to renovate.

[falafel]

New temple in WaCo, Utah. I predict it will get built and dedicated and then they will promptly shut down the St. G temple for a year to renovate.

Inside info?

[Bo Diddley]

Inside info?

Yes. Filled with the spirit of prophesy--the ultimate inside info.

[Donuthole]

Two hour church

Inside info?

I’ve heard rumblings for a couple years that they’ve been looking for an opportunity to shut down to address some electrical, HVAC, and other significant construction issues—too substantial to fully address during their summer cleaning period.

[Lost Student]

Inside info?

Do you mean besides Pres. Nelson outright stating today that the pioneer-era temples will all be updated?

[All-American]

I’ve heard rumblings for a couple years that they’ve been looking for an opportunity to shut down to address some electrical, HVAC, and other significant construction issues—too substantial to fully address during their summer cleaning period.

Apparently it was one of the factors driving the temples recently built along the Wasatch front.

[ByronMarchant]

1. How many of the 12 new temples are mini-temples?

2. Did they announce which meetinghouses will be put up for sale yet? Now they can put 4 wards in each meetinghouse. This will save one building for every 3 meetinghouses.

Some have used the number of new temples as an argument for Church growth. But I think it is important to distinguish between construction of a mini-temple and full-size temples. I hypothesize that the mini-temples are mostly being constructed to try to boost overall temple attendance (by making them proximal to the people), rather than to accommodate existing temple attendance.

There are 159 temples in the world.

In contrast, if you assume 3 wards per meetinghouse, there are 10,169 meetinghouses in the world.

If they put 4 wards into each meetinghouse, this will provide a reduction of 2,542 in the number of necessary meetinghouses.

If you assume that all of the 10,169 meetinghouses were constructed sometime in the last 40 years, then that's an average rate of 254 meetinghouses constructed per year.

Assuming no net increase in number of congregations over the next decade, the LDS Church will not need to build a new meetinghouse for a decade. (In other words, President Nelson will be 104 years old when the Church needs to build a new meetinghouse.)

This makes good financial sense.

[clackamascoug]

Regarding the SLC Temple - updates? Movies instead of live sessions?

[smokymountainrain]

Saving money is probably why the church is building 12 new temples across the globe

Burn! Sit down, BM.

[Moliere]

Two hour church

1. How many of the 12 new temples are mini-temples?

2. Did they announce which meetinghouses will be put up for sale yet? Now they can put 4 wards in each meetinghouse. This will save one building for every 3 meetinghouses.

Some have used the number of new temples as an argument for Church growth. But I think it is important to distinguish between construction of a mini-temple and full-size temples. I hypothesize that the mini-temples are mostly being constructed to try to boost overall temple attendance (by making them proximal to the people), rather than to accommodate existing temple attendance.

There are 159 temples in the world.

In contrast, if you assume 3 wards per meetinghouse, there are 10,169 meetinghouses in the world.

If they put 4 wards into each meetinghouse, this will provide a reduction of 2,542 in the number of necessary meetinghouses.

If you assume that all of the 10,169 meetinghouses were constructed sometime in the last 40 years, then that's an average rate of 254 meetinghouses constructed per year.

Assuming no net increase in number of congregations over the next decade, the LDS Church will not need to build a new meetinghouse for a decade. (In other words, President Nelson will be 104 years old when the Church needs to build a new meetinghouse.)

This makes good financial sense.

Yep, you aren’t in finance.

[Northwestcoug]

1. How many of the 12 new temples are mini-temples?

Anyone please correct me if I'm wrong. But I thought 'mini-temples' wasn't a thing anymore. Some might be smaller than others, but the few dozen or so that were built with the 'mini-temple' architecture and floor plan aren't being built now?

[falafel]

Do you mean besides Pres. Nelson outright stating today that the pioneer-era temples will all be updated?

[Lost Student]

I totally knew that!