SALT LAKE CITY — The Bountiful Utah Temple and all five Australian temples are closed, according to a new update by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
They were among 13 new temple closures announced Sunday night, bringing the total to 88. That means that more than half of the church’s 168 temples around the world are now closed as the church continues to follow recommendations by government and health agencies in the effort to reduce the spread of COVID-19.
The Bountiful closure marked the first in Utah. The other latest closures included the Baton Rouge Louisiana Temple, the Columbus Ohio Temple, the Halifax Nova Scotia Temple, the Kinshasa DR Congo Temple, the Regina Saskatchewan Temple, the Santiago Chile Temple and the St. Louis Missouri Temple.
The Australian temples closed in Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney.
Most of the temples that remain open are performing living ordinances only. The church announced Wednesday that those temples will not schedule living ordinances for members traveling from another state, province or region during the pandemic.
That means members living in states, provinces or regions where all temples are closed may need to postpone temple weddings, known as sealings, effective immediately. The same is true for live endowments, with one exception for missionaries entering the mission field.
Now, men and women with a mission call who live in a state, province or region where all temples are closed may enter the mission field without receiving their endowment if they are going to an area where a temple can provide living endowments.
The church suspended all proxy work at its temples on March 16.
Here is the full list of temples that have closed.
- Aba Nigeria Temple
- Accra Ghana Temple
- Adelaide Australia Temple
- Apia Samoa Temple
- Arequipa Peru Temple
- Asunción Paraguay Temple
- Barranquilla Colombia Temple
- Baton Rouge Louisiana Temple
- Bern Switzerland Temple
- Bogotá Colombia Temple
- Bountiful Utah Temple
- Brisbane Australia Temple
- Buenos Aires Argentina Temple
- Campinas Brazil Temple
- Caracas Venezuela Temple
- Cebu City Philippines Temple
- Chicago Illinois Temple
- Cochabamba Bolivia Temple
- Columbia River Washington Temple
- Columbus Ohio Temple
- Copenhagen Denmark Temple
- Córdoba Argentina Temple
- Curitiba Brazil Temple
- Detroit Michigan Temple
- Fortaleza Brazil Temple
- Frankfurt Germany Temple
- Freiberg Germany Temple
- Fresno California Temple
- Fukuoka Japan Temple
- Guadalajara Mexico Temple
- Guatemala City Guatemala Temple
- Guayaquil Ecuador Temple
- Halifax Nova Scotia Temple
- Hartford Connecticut Temple
- Helsinki Finland Temple
- Kansas City Missouri Temple
- Kinshasa DR Congo Temple
- Kyiv Ukraine Temple
- Las Vegas Nevada Temple
- Lima Peru Temple
- Lisbon Portugal Temple
- London England Temple
- Los Angeles California Temple
- Louisville Kentucky Temple
- Madrid Spain Temple
- Manaus Brazil Temple
- Manhattan New York Temple
- Manila Philippines Temple
- Melbourne Australia Temple
- Montreal Quebec Temple
- Nauvoo Illinois Temple
- Newport Beach California Temple
- Oakland California Temple
- Palmyra New York Temple
- Panama City Panama Temple
- Papeete Tahiti Temple
- Paris France Temple
- Perth Australia Temple
- Philadelphia Pennsylvania Temple
- Porto Alegre Brazil Temple
- Port-au-Prince Haiti Temple
- Portland Oregon Temple
- Preston England Temple
- Quetzaltenango Guatemala Temple
- Recife Brazil Temple
- Redlands California Temple
- Regina Saskatchewan Temple
- Reno Nevada Temple
- Rexburg Idaho Temple
- Rome Italy Temple
- Sacramento California Temple
- San Diego California Temple
- San Salvador El Salvador Temple
- Santiago Chile Temple
- Santo Domingo Dominican Republic Temple
- São Paulo Brazil Temple
- Sapporo Japan Temple
- Seattle Washington Temple
- Seoul Korea Temple
- St. Louis Missouri Temple
- Stockholm Sweden Temple
- Sydney Australia Temple
- Taipei Taiwan Temple
- Tegucigalpa Honduras Temple
- The Hague Netherlands Temple
- Toronto Ontario Temple
- Trujillo Peru Temple
- Tucson Arizona Temple