As a result of the increasing number of temples worldwide, a uniform naming guideline for temples has been announced by the First Presidency.
The naming guideline applies to all of the 115 existing or planned temples.
The guideline provides for the temple names to primarily include the city and state or province, or the city and country in which they are located. In Mexico, however, to avoid confusion some of the temples are named after the city and country, while others are named after the city, state and country. For example, the temple in Colonia Juarez includes its state name, Chihuahua, while the temple in Ciudad Juarez, which is also in the state of Chihuahua, does not. Some of the temple names were also altered to give clarity because of local usage, such as Bogota D.C. Colombia Temple, Caracas D. F. Venezuela Temple and Mexico City D.F. Temple.
Two of the existing temples, Alberta and Arizona, were originally named after a province or state. Under the new naming system, these temples now become the Cardston Alberta Temple and the Mesa Arizona Temple. The Swiss and New Zealand temples were originally named after a country, but now become the Bern Switzerland Temple and Hamilton New Zealand Temple.
The Hong Kong Temple becomes the Hong Kong China Temple and the Jordan River Temple becomes the Jordan River Utah Temple.
Only the Salt Lake Temple retains its original name. The only other exception to having the name of a state, province or country attached to the temple name is the Winter Quarters Temple, which was named the Omaha Nebraska Temple when it was first announced.
In the announcement, the First Presidency also said the location of the New York temple, originally announced for White Plains, will be in Harrison, N.Y.
A similar naming system was applied to stakes in February 1974, when there were 631 stakes, and to missions in June 1974, when there were 109 missions. Today, there are more than 2,530 stakes and 333 missions.
The official temple names, with an asterisk marking those with name changes, are:
Accra Ghana
Adelaide Australia
Albuquerque New Mexico
Anchorage Alaska
Apia Samoa
Atlanta Georgia
Baton Rouge Louisiana
Bern Switzerland*
Billings Montana
Birmingham Alabama
Bismarck North Dakota
Bogota D.C. Colombia*
Boise Idaho
Boston Massachusetts
Bountiful Utah
Brisbane Australia
Buenos Aires Argentina
Campinas Brazil
Caracas D. F. Venezuela*
Cardston Alberta*
Chicago Illinois
Ciudad Juarez Mexico*
Cochabamba Bolivia
Colonia Juarez Chihuahua Mexico
Columbia South Carolina
Columbus Ohio
Copenhagen Denmark
Dallas Texas
Denver Colorado
Detroit Michigan
Edmonton Alberta
Frankfurt Germany
Freiberg Germany
Fresno California
Fukuoka Japan
Guadalajara Mexico
Guatemala City Guatemala*
Guayaquil Ecuador
Halifax Nova Scotia
Hamilton New Zealand*
Harrison New York*
Hermosillo Sonora Mexico*
Hong Kong China*
Houston Texas
Idaho Falls Idaho*
Johannesburg South Africa
Jordan River Utah*
Kiev Ukraine
Kona Hawaii
Laie Hawaii
Las Vegas Nevada
Lima Peru
Logan Utah*
London England*
Los Angeles California*
Louisville Kentucky
Madrid Spain
Manila Philippines
Manti Utah*
Medford Oregon
Melbourne Australia
Memphis Tennessee
Merida Yucatan Mexico
Mesa Arizona*
Mexico City D.F. Mexico*
Monterrey Mexico
Montevideo Uruguay
Monticello Utah
Montreal Quebec
Mount Timpanogos Utah
Nashville Tennessee
Nauvoo Illinois
Nuku'alofa Tonga
Oakland California*
Oaxaca Mexico*
Ogden Utah*
Oklahoma City Oklahoma
Orlando Florida
Palmyra New York
Papeete Tahiti
Perth Australia
Portland Oregon
Porto Alegre Brazil
Preston England
Provo Utah*
Raleigh North Carolina
Recife Brazil
Regina Saskatchewan
Reno Nevada
St. George Utah*
St. Louis Missouri
St. Paul Minnesota
Salt Lake
San Diego California
San Jose Costa Rica
Santiago Chile
Santo Domingo Dominican Republic
Sao Paulo Brazil*
Seattle Washington
Seoul South Korea*
Spokane Washington
Stockholm Sweden
Suva Fiji
Sydney Australia
Taipei Taiwan
Tampico Mexico*
The Hague Netherlands
Tokyo Japan*
Toronto Ontario
Tuxtla Gutierrez Mexico*
Veracruz Mexico*
Vernal Utah
Villahermosa Tabasco Mexico
Washington D.C.
Winter Quarters*
