As of 2021, the LDS Church reported 102,862 members in 269 congregations in the DRC,[1] making it the third largest body of LDS Church members in Africa, behind Nigeria and Ghana.

Since establishing itself in the country, the LDS Church has played a large role in providing humanitarian aid services in the nation.

[10] By late 2019, the church had 22 stakes and one district as well as several branches directly under missions in the DRC.

On October 1, 2011 the Kinshasa Democratic Republic of the Congo Temple was announced by church president Thomas S. Monson.

On February 12, 2016 ground was broken for the temple in a ceremony conducted by Neil L. Andersen of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.