Different Christian denominations in the Dominican Republic have spent over one billion pesos on church construction over the past ten years. According to the Listin Diario, the Mormons spent RD$300 million on their temple in Santo Domingo. The money came from tithes from their 100,000 members in the Dominican Republic. The Jehovah’s Witnesses’ structure on the San Isidro highway cost over US$2 million in 1994. The Mita in Aaron sect on the Charles De Gaulle Avenue is cited as another beautiful building, built from the “sweat of the faithful.” The actual cost is a secret, but there are over 2,000 square meters of construction on 33,000 meters of land. The Listin says that the Santo Domingo Archdioceses’ House of Brotherhood on 140,000 square meters of land alongside the Las Americas highway houses 2,000 people on a monthly basis and serves the entire country. The land was donated by the government. The Catholic Church also has the Christ the Redeemer Seminary on 60,000 square meters of land in the Villa Elena section of Los Rios. The buildings take up 20,000 square meters. The Evangelical Church has halted the construction of its three-story building. The reason for the new buildings is the same in all cases: membership growth.