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New database gives widest look ever at LDS Church landholdings. See what it owns and where.

Utah-based faith has at least 1.7M acres valued at $16B, making it the nation’s fifth largest private landowner.

(Tribune and wire photos) A collection of property across the United States owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, clockwise from top left: An apartment building adjacent to the Philadelphia Pennsylvania Temple; the Church Office Building in Salt Lake City; an office complex in Richardson, Texas; a meetinghouse in Laie, Hawaii; undeveloped land in Riverton; and farmland near St. Cloud, Fla.