Tithing buildings of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Tithing buildings of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are storehouses related to tithing by members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. These are places where Mormons delivered tithes, often in form of agricultural products.

There were at least 28 in Utah and at least one in Idaho, which functioned between 1850 and 1910 or so. These facilities served for church members to be able to collect, store, and distribute the farm products donated as tithing, for at the time, agricultural products comprised most of what many people worked for and earned. Serving as nodes for economic activity and welfare, some of these were vital buildings for many of the early inhabitants of Utah who were members of the LDS church.

Locations A number of tithing buildings, also called tithing granaries, survive and are registered as historic sites listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). These include:

in Utah Clarkston Tithing Granary (1905), Clarkston, Utah, NRHP-listed Farmington Tithing Office (1907-1909), Farmington, Utah, NRHP-listed Fairview Tithing Office/Bishop's Storehouse, Fairview, Utah, NRHP-listed Huntington Tithing Granary, Huntington, Utah, NRHP-listed Hyrum Stake Tithing Office, Hyrum, Utah, NRHP-listed Kanosh Tithing Office, Kanosh, Utah, NRHP-listed Lakeview Tithing Office (1899), Provo, Utah, NRHP-listed, built originally as a creamery and acquired by the local LDS church to serve as a tithing office in 1904 or after. Leeds Tithing Office, Leeds, Utah, NRHP-listed Lehi Ward Tithing Barn-Centennial Hall, Lehi, Utah, NRHP-listed Lewiston Tithing Office and Granary, Lewiston, Utah, NRHP-listed Loa Tithing Office, Loa, Utah, NRHP-listed Meadow Tithing Granary, Meadow, Utah, NRHP-listed Paradise Tithing Office, Paradise, Utah, NRHP-listed Pine Valley Chapel and Tithing Office, Pine Valley, Washington County, Utah, NRHP-listed Pleasant Grove Tithing Office, Pleasant Grove, Utah, NRHP-listed Sandy Tithing Office, Sandy, Utah, NRHP-listed Santa Clara Tithing Company, Santa Clara, Utah, NRHP-listed Smithfield Tithing Office, Smithfield, Utah, NRHP-listed Richmond Tithing Office, Richmond, Utah, NRHP-listed Teasdale Tithing Granary, Teasdale, Utah, NRHP-listed Vernal Tithing Office, Vernal, Utah, NRHP-listed

in Idaho Old LDS Tithing/Paris Post Building, Paris, Idaho, NRHP-listed

See also Tithe barn, common in Northern Europe

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