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The LDS Church’s historic temple-building spree is fracturing communities across the country

From Nevada to Wyoming to Texas, small towns have become neighborhood battlegrounds as feuds break out about the buildings’ height and light.

(Rachel Aston | Special to The Tribune) The proposed site of a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints temple in northwest Las Vegas, Monday, May 6, 2024. From Cody, Wyo., to the outskirts of Dallas, communities are in uproar over proposed temples they say have no business being built in their small towns and neighborhoods.