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The temple serves 39 stakes in Los Angeles, Ventura, Kern, Santa Barbara, and San Luis Obispo counties. The grounds include a visitors' center, which was renovated in 2010, the Los Angeles Regional Family History Center, both of which are open to the public, and the headquarters of the church's California Los Angeles Mission.
On January 21, 1923, the Los Angeles Stake became the first to be created in the state since the San Bernardino Stake had been dissolved. The Los Angeles Stake was divided on May 22, 1927 to form the Los Angeles and Hollywood stakes. On July 10, 1927, the San Francisco Stake was established. [11]
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) operates 449 missions [1] throughout the world, as of June 2024. Most are named after the location of the mission headquarters, usually a specific city.
Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church (48 P) Pages in category "Female Christian missionaries" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 469 total.
It includes Mormon missionaries that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Pages in category "Female Mormon missionaries" The following 66 pages are in this category, out of 66 total.
Moses Lake Washington Temple: Operating 28,933 sq ft (2,688 m 2) 17.2 acres (69,606 m 2) 17 September 2023 Quentin L. Cook [46] edit: 183 McAllen Texas Temple: Operating 27,897 sq ft (2,592 m 2) 10.61 acres (42,937 m 2) 8 October 2023 Dieter F. Uchtdorf: edit: 184 Feather River California Temple: Operating 41,665 sq ft (3,871 m 2) 9.24 acres ...
From 1999 to 2006, three LDS missionaries were murdered worldwide, while 22 died in accidents of some sort. [112] In 2008, three men from Port Shepstone, South Africa were convicted of raping and robbing two female LDS missionaries in June 2006. [113]
The LDS Church does not recognize trans women as women, but defines gender as the "biological sex at birth". [1] The church teaches that if a person is born intersex, the decision to determine the child's sex is left to the parents, with the guidance of medical professionals, and that such decisions can be made at birth or can be delayed until medically necessary.