1986
Temples in Operation
May 1986


“Temples in Operation,” Ensign, May 1986, 109

Temples in Operation

Temples in Operation

1981

19

1982

19

1983

25

1984

31

1985

37

Endowments for the Living

1981

49,800

1982

48,800

1983

52,116

1984

53,998

1985

54,554

Endowments for the Dead

1981

4,101,000

1982

4,418,000

1983

4,364,928

1984

4,395,424

1985

4,857,052

During the past five years, the number of sacred houses available to members of the Church has doubled under a temple-building program given impetus by President Spencer W. Kimball and continuing under President Ezra Taft Benson. Some 259,268 Church members received their own endowments in the five-year period beginning with 1981 and ending at the close of 1985. During that same period, endowments were performed for 22,136,404 people who had formerly lived in mortality.