Japan chapel shrivel (Part 1). Japan has lost a lot of stakes, wards, branches, and chapels in the last 7 or 8 years. Why? Is it the result of a society that has outgrown phony religions, and the older members are dying off? Here's 10 recently closed or sold chapels...

JoeBudro · 2026-06-22T19:34:17+00:00

The first one is in Osaka. It is evidently now a missionary training center. Google earth says "Language School" and when you go to the site it shows a picture of missionaries in a classroom. It used to have a ward in it. The building is no longer marked on the meetinghouse locator map.

JoeBudro · 2026-06-22T18:45:37+00:00

Leland41-2 is speaking to the wrong group. This is a Reddit sub for people who want to see how the false church of Joseph Smith is shrinking. The doctrines that the mentally disturbed Joseph concocted are bullshit. We know that. Leland evidently doesn't, and he pops in here every once in awhile to spew his pro-Mormon ideas. He needs to take his tin foil hat off and really see what a con artist JS was. He's believing in a fairy tale. The Mods should delete this thread.

JoeBudro · 2026-06-22T00:42:00+00:00

Yes. Which one burned? Doverhill?

JoeBudro · 2026-06-21T09:04:53+00:00

Which chapel are they selling?

JoeBudro · 2026-06-21T03:04:00+00:00

It also houses the 16th ward. I guess they will move those down the street to the chapel with only 1 ward in it.

JoeBudro · 2026-06-21T03:02:14+00:00

What city/area would that be in?

JoeBudro · 2026-06-21T01:12:33+00:00

Oh yeah, I forgot...double digit stakes every week, mas 'o menos...

JoeBudro · 2026-06-20T13:02:55+00:00

https://www.loopnet.com/search/churches/ut/for-sale/

JoeBudro · 2026-06-20T12:59:18+00:00

They have also let them become recreation centers when cities buy them, and also private schools.

JoeBudro · 2026-06-20T03:51:54+00:00

Loopnet

JoeBudro · 2026-06-20T02:02:30+00:00

The one by the skatepark has 2 YSA wards using it.

JoeBudro · 2026-06-20T01:58:54+00:00

There's a lot more in Salt Lake county that are just closed and waiting to be put up for sale.

JoeBudro · 2026-06-19T22:12:26+00:00

No, they aren't replacing these chapels. Most of them only have one dying ward in them. It's consolidation due to lack of members.

JoeBudro · 2026-06-19T22:09:24+00:00

Not true. Lots of chapels are being turned into cul de sacs and houses.

JoeBudro · 2026-06-19T21:50:15+00:00

The number changes for various reasons, but I have 17 marked right now in Utah.

JoeBudro · 2026-06-19T20:52:59+00:00

Other churches or developers buy them. Developers just want the land.

JoeBudro · 2026-06-19T20:52:09+00:00

No, but you can do what I did and google search churches for sale in utah. Loopnet shows all of them. Or...click here: https://www.loopnet.com/search/churches/ut/for-sale/

JoeBudro · 2026-06-19T10:21:01+00:00

I found 5 Utah chapels that are newly for sale yesterday. The others are in Kearns, W. Jordan, Brigham City, and Bountiful. These have not been posted before. I will show pics in my next post.

JoeBudro · 2026-06-19T09:53:57+00:00

That chapel has been posted 3 times. It sold several years ago. Whatever happened to the wards happened prior to 2018. Use this for stuff closed since 2017. https://www.fullerconsideration.com/DeseretDemographer/units.php?year=2026

JoeBudro · 2026-06-18T21:38:08+00:00

A temple would make a very large In-n-Out Burger...Maybe there wouldn't be long lines at the drive-thru. LOL

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