According to the 2014 Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life survey, roughly 1% of Tennesseans self-identified most closely with the LDS Church.

[4] David W. Patten and Warren Parish arrived in Tennessee shortly before 11 October 1834 and soon baptized 31 people: organizing a branch by the end of the year.

When Warren Parrish was called as a Seventy in July 1835, he ordained Woodruff as an elder and placed him in charge of the work in Tennessee.

[7] The worst massacre of church members in the South, however, occurred on August 10, 1884, when a mob shot to death missionaries William S. Berry and John H. Gibbs and local members W. Martin Conder and John Riley Hutson during LDS Church services at the home of W. James Conder on Cane Creek in Lewis County.

[8][9] Brigham H. Roberts, then serving as the mission president donned a disguise, traveled to the tense area and retrieved the bodies of the slain missionaries.

On March 15–16, 1997, more than 6500 people attended a meeting where church president Gordon B. Hinckley spoke in the Knoxville Civic Coliseum.

Following Hurricane Katrina in 2005, several thousand Latter-day Saint volunteers, from a seven-state area (including Tennessee), went to Louisiana and Mississippi.

[15] In September 2008, Latter-day Saints from both of the Memphis stakes went to the Baton Rouge area to aid cleanup efforts following Hurricane Gustav.

As of January 2024, the following stakes were located in Tennessee:[16][17][18][19] The Southern States Mission was formally organized in 1875 with its headquarters in Nashville.

On April 3, 2022, church president Russell M. Nelson announced plans to build a temple in the Knoxville area.

= Operating = Under construction = Announced D. Todd Christofferson, called to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles on April 5, 2008, was senior vice president and general counsel for Commerce Union Bank of Tennessee in Nashville.