In May 1963,
Gordon B. Hinckley, then a member of the
Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, along with Jay A Quealy,
president of the Southern Far East
Mission, visited Singapore and found three
Latter-day Saints from the British military residing there. Members from
Hong Kong also began holding church meetings in Singapore and by 1964, the number attending had grown to eleven. Missionaries began visiting in the mid 1960s and the first assigned full-time
missionaries arrived in March 1968. On October 12 of the same year, the church established its first
congregation in Singapore, with John McSweeney as
president. The Southeast Asia Mission, which included Singapore, was created in November 1969. In 1970, when approximately 100 Latter-day Saints lived in Singapore, government officials restricted preaching and visas for missionaries. Progress continued through the efforts of local members and the Singapore Mission was created in 1974, with
G. Carlos Smith as the
mission president. By 1976, church membership in Singapore totaled 309. Singapore was re-opened to full-time missionaries in January 1980. Five years later, church membership in Singapore was 960. By 1990, the church had constructed three meetinghouses, which served approximately 1,300 members. In August 1992,
Jon Huntsman, Jr., a Latter-day Saint who had served as a missionary in
Taiwan, was sworn into office as the
United States Ambassador to Singapore. By mid-1993, church membership in Singapore totaled 1,750 in seven congregations. In 2021,
church president Russell M. Nelson announced that a
temple would be built in Singapore. ==Stake and Congregations==