The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Massachusetts

As of January 4, 2018, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints reported 27,576 members[1] in six stakes,[2] 58 congregations (42 wards[3] and 16 branches[3]), one mission, and one temple in Massachusetts.[4][5]

History

Massachusetts

The nightly preachings of George J. Adams brought an audience of some 1,200 in Charlestown, Massachusetts, in 1843. At that time, there were some 14 branches (small congregations) of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Boston area. Eleven years prior, the first missionaries for the Church arrived in Boston to organize congregations. Church President Joseph Smith passed through Boston on his way to Washington, D.C., in 1839. After President Smith was martyred in 1844, several members in Massachusetts joined the mass exodus west, and missionary work in the state slowed.

In 1894, one year after the area was reopened to missionaries, Church membership was 96. A decade later, missionaries encountered hostilities toward the Church during the highly publicized United States Senate hearings on Church leader and Senator-elect Reed Smoot, and police disallowed missionaries to hold open-air meetings. By 1930, membership was nearly 360, some of whom were recently returned missionaries studying at Harvard University. Cambridge, Massachusetts, became the headquarters for the New England States Mission. A Church building was dedicated in the area in 1956.

The Church completed and dedicated the Boston Massachusetts Temple in 2000, marking the 100th operating temple in the Church.<5>

In 2020, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints canceled services and other public gatherings indefinitely in response to the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.[6]

A brief history can be found at LDS Newsroom (Massachusetts) or Deseret News 2010 Church Almanac (Massachusetts)

Mission

Temple
Main article: Boston Massachusetts Temple

The Boston Massachusetts Temple was dedicated on October 1, 2000 by President Gordon B. Hinckley.

 100. Boston Massachusetts Temple

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Belmont, Massachusetts, United States
September 30, 1995
October 1, 2000 by Gordon B. Hinckley
69,600 sq ft (6,470 m2) and 139 ft (42 m) high on a 8 acre (3.2 ha) site
Classic modern, single-spire design - designed by Tsoi/Kobus & Associates and Church A&E Services

References
  1. "LDS Statistics and Church Facts | Total Church Membership". Mormon Newsroom. Retrieved 2019-01-04.
  2. "Stakes in Massachusetts". Google My Maps. Retrieved 2019-01-04.
  3. LDS Meetinghouse Locator. Nearby Congregations (Wards and Branches).
  4. "Facts and Statistics: Statistics by Country: USA-Massachusetts", Newsroom, LDS Church, 31 December 2011, retrieved 2012-11-10
  5. "United States information: Massachusetts", Church News Online Almanac, Deseret News, February 2, 2010, retrieved 2012-11-10
  6. Lovett, Ian. "Mormon Church Cancels Services World-Wide Amid Coronavirus Crisis", The Wall Street Journal, 12 March 2020. Retrieved on 31 March 2020.

5 - https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/facts-and-statistics/country/united-states/state/massachusetts

Further reading
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