The temple will serve 8,000 Latter-day Saints living in two stakes in the Gulf states and a number of congregations in the Middle East, North Africa, Eastern Europe and western Asia. The area will ...

Mormons first arrived in Japan in 1901 as part of their first mission to Asia, before stopping missions ... It is the biggest of the Mormon temples in Japan but small when compared with its ...

The first counselor in the Church’s Asia area presidency ... additional scriptures from the Book of Mormon and Doctrine and Covenants, which mention temples on several occasions.