The Church Is Here

Madrid, Spain

Photograph by Fernando J. Calderón

In 1967, Spain’s government granted religious liberty in the country, and the first missionaries for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints arrived in 1969. Today the Church in Spain has:

• 63,500 members (approximately) 

• 15 stakes, 136 wards and branches, 3 missions 

• 1 temple in Madrid, 1 announced in Barcelona

The Peace of the Gospel

In Madrid the light of the gospel illuminates the González family at general conference time and year-round. Alisael González says, “The gospel is peace, it’s life, and it keeps us united.”

Photograph by Fernando J. Calderón

More about the Church in Spain

• A woman rejoices in connecting generations of her family all the way from Bountiful, Utah, USA, to a small village in Spain.

• Two missionaries in Spain serve a family in need and are blessed with a greater outpouring of love for those they serve.

• The Lord’s work progresses around the world: a missionary in France baptizes a man who becomes a mission president in Spain.

• The life of a man from Spain is changed when he humbles himself and asks God if the missionaries’ message could be true.

• Creative missionaries serving in Spain find a way to bring others to Christ—even from a sickbed.

• What is it like to serve a full-time proselyting mission? Check out this day in the life of missionaries serving in Spain.

Missionaries at the Madrid Spain Temple.

Young women in front of the Madrid Spain Temple.

Young single adults gather at a chapel in Madrid.

Madrid Spain Temple.

One of the venues on the Tabernacle Choir’s 1998 concert tour in Europe was the basilica at the Royal Site of San Lorenzo de El Escorial near Madrid.

Sister Reyna I. Aburto, former Second Counselor in the Relief Society General Presidency, spoke at a youth devotional in Madrid on March 12, 2022.