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.