Amazon sells a lot of stuff, don't they! 😊 Will it become a temple?
" ... [Mormons] just bought a 186,455-square-foot Amazon warehouse in the London suburb of Wembley for more than $89 million in U.S. currency.
“The purchase … furthers our efforts to make prudent, long-term investments,” Dale Bills, spokesperson for the church-affiliated buyer, told the Evening Standard. “Earnings from our investments are expected to support the religious and charitable work of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the United Kingdom.”
The church’s Covent Garden IP clinched the deal. It is registered as a charity that seeks to “promote and further the religious and other charitable work”of the church in the United Kingdom “by investing in and holding commercial property” for the faith’s benefit. ...
The U.K. is home to nearly 187,000 Latter-day Saints, more than 300 congregations and two operating temples (London and Preston) with plans for a third (Birmingham)." (The Salt Lake Tribune
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