The 48,480-square-foot Sapporo Japan Temple sits on 9.8 acres and has a statue of the angel Moroni on top of its single spire. It is the biggest of the Mormon temples in Japan but small when ...

Other temples in Japan are the Fukuoka Japan Temple, the Sapporo Japan Temple, and the Tokyo Japan Temple. According to the LDS Church, Japan has 130,340 church members with 261 congregations.

The sites are Brigham City, Utah; Concepcion, Chile; Fortaleza, Brazil; Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; and Sapporo, Japan. This brings the total number of new temples announced or under construction to 21.

President Thomas S. Monson of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced plans to build five new temples at the Saturday morning session of the Church's 179th Semiannual General ...