Which months, dates have had the most temple dedications?

Have you ever wondered which month and which calendar date has had the most dedications of temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints?

The Church has 208 dedicated houses of the Lord worldwide — with the 209th, the Elko Nevada Temple, to be dedicated later today, Sunday, Oct. 12, and five other temples scheduled for dedication between now and March 1, 2026.

Dedication dates by month

Considering those 214 dedications and scheduled dedications, nearly two-thirds — or more precisely, 66.4% — have occurred in one of six months: May, June, August, September, October or November. Each month has had anywhere from 21 to 27 dedications or has scheduled dedications, with June having the most at 27.

Listed in calendar order, the months below have had or will have had the following total of dedications, past or scheduled:

• January — 13
• February — 5
• March — 16
• April — 18
• May — 24
• June — 27
• July — 6
• August — 24
• September — 22
• October — 24
• November — 21
• December — 14

Dates with multiple temple dedications

As for individual dates, a total of four temples have been dedicated on as many specific dates — May 17, Aug. 21, Sept. 17 and Nov. 20 — for a total of 16 temples across those dates. Three temples each have been dedicated on seven different dates, and another 40 dates have been shared by two temple dedications.

The dedication dates don’t include the dedications of the Kirtland and original Nauvoo temples, the two houses of the Lord in the Church’s early days in the 1830s and 1840s but were eventually left behind in the Latter-day Saints’ migration first to Missouri and later to the Salt Lake Valley. The dates do include upcoming announced dedications for six temples — Elko Nevada (Oct. 12), Grand Junction Colorado (Oct. 19), Bahía Blanca Argentina (Nov. 23), Burley Idaho (Jan. 11, 2026), Alabang Philippines (Jan. 18, 2026) and Harare Zimbabwe (March 1, 2026).

Of the four dates with four temple dedications each, Sept. 17 is one of note. Besides the Santo Domingo Dominican Republic Temple dedication in 2000, the other three temples — Brasília Brazil, Bentonville Arkansas and Moses Lake Washington — were all dedicated on Sept. 17, 2023, the first and only time so far that three houses of the Lord were dedicated on the same day.

The four temples dedicated on a May 17 span more than 120 years — Logan Utah in 1884, Manti Utah in 1888, Campinas Brazil in 2002 and Córdoba Argentina in 2015.

The other two dates with four temple dedications each had the events within a quarter-century span:

• Aug. 21, with Spokane Washington (1999), Oquirrh Mountain Utah (2009), San Salvador El Salvador (2011) and Sapporo Japan (2016).
• Nov. 20, with Billings Montana (1999), Hartford Connecticut (2016), Belém Brazil (2022) and Quito Ecuador (2022).

Of the seven dates with three temple dedications each, three dates are of note:

• April 6 is both the date of the 1830 formal organization of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and the dedication day of three key houses of the Lord: the St. George Utah Temple (1877), the Church’s oldest operating house of the Lord; the Salt Lake Temple (1893), the iconic temple at Church headquarters; and the Palmyra New York Temple (2000) at the location of the Church’s organization in upstate New York.
• June 15 and June 16, with the two consecutive dates having three temple dedications each — June 15 with the Adelaide Australia (2000), Brisbane Australia (2003) and Antofagasta Chile (2025) temples, and June 16 with the Melbourne Australia (2000), Salta Argentina (2024) and Layton Utah (2024) temples.

And looking at a week’s span of temple dedication dates, 16 temples have been dedicated on a date from May 17 through May 23, with 14 dedicated on a date from Nov. 14 through Nov. 20.

Temple dedications listed by date

Want to see what temple dedication dates align with a birthday, an anniversary or another special date? Below is a date-by-date look at all 214 past and scheduled temple dedications, as of Oct. 12, 2025. The temple names are followed by the year of dedication, with upcoming dedications noted by an asterisk (*) by the temple name.

January dedications

February dedications

March dedications

April dedications

May dedications

June dedications

July dedications

August dedications

September dedications

October dedications

November dedications

December dedications