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Site for the planned Payson Utah Temple
On 25th January 2010, President Thomas S. Monson, prophet of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, announced that a Mormon temple is planned for the city of Payson, Utah. The new temple will help relieve the pressure of use on the nearby Provo Utah Temple.
The proposed temple site is on the south-west of Payson, near the I-15 highway, and when the building is completed, the temple district will encompass an area serving almost 80,000 members of the Mormon Church.
There are currently 14 other temples in operation and announced throughout the state of Utah.
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The plan to build a new temple in Brigham City Utah was announced at the general conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in October, 2009. The temple will be built on the property at 250 S. Main St., directly west of and across the street from the church’s Brigham City Tabernacle at 251 S. Main. When completed, it will be the 14th LDS temple in Utah. At the time the temple was announced, the church had 130 temples in operation worldwide, with another 21 either announced or under construction.
The city block — known to locals as Central Square — once was home to Brigham City’s Central Elementary School. After the school was razed, a professional plaza-type development was projected for the property. A recent sign on Central Square announced the property had been sold.
The block is bordered in both directions along Main Street by retail businesses and to the west by private residences. The Box Elder Tabernacle, completed in 1890, was gutted by fire in February... Read the rest of this article »
On 4 October 2008 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced the construction of a new temple in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. It is assumed that the Church will follow the pattern it has established for temple building in downtown areas of large cities, such as Hong Kong and New York City, and that the temple will be a multi-level building with offices and a visitors’ center on the lower floors and ordinance rooms on the top floors.
This will be the first LDS temple to be built in Pennsylvania.
Several significant events in Church history took place in Pennsylvania including much of the translation of the Book of Mormon and the restoration of priesthood authority. The Church was first established in Pennsylvania in 1839—growing to 450 members by October 1840. Membership fell following the migration of the Saints to Salt Lake but grew again as Mormon European emigrants arrived. Eventually the first stake was organized in 1960 with 1,100 members located in congregations... Read the rest of this article »
On 4 October 2008 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced the construction of a new temple in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. The temple will be located southwest of the intersection of I-435 and Shoal Creek Parkway. The site is in a beautiful mixed development owned by the Church in northeast Kansas City, just west of the Liberty Jail Historic Site. The temple is expected to be similar in design to the recently dedicated Twin Falls Idaho Temple and to be completed in about three years.
In the early years of the Church, Mormons had attempted to build two temples in Missouri, one in Far West and one in Independence. Both attempts were thwarted by mob violence against the Mormons.
Mormons had also settled in Kansas, but they left when the Church relocated its headquarters to Nauvoo, Illinois, and then to Salt Lake City, Utah. Church members are now found in every major city in the Midwest. Kansas City’s first stake was established in 1956. Today there are approximately... Read the rest of this article »
Plans to build a new temple in Phoenix, Arizona, USA, were announced by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon Church) on 24 May 2008. Though preliminary plans for the architecture of this temple have been drawn up, no location has been formally announced. However, local wards conjecture that the chosen location is in northwest Phoenix, on Pinnacle Peak Road, where the Church has purchased property.
The announcement came less than a month following the announcement that temples would be built in Gilbert, Arizona, and in Arizona’s Gila Valley. A temple in Phoenix will decrease travel time for members in the northern and western areas of Phoenix, who currently attend the Mesa Arizona Temple, which serves 74 stakes throughout much of the state. The Mesa temple is attended by more patrons than any other temple outside of Utah.
In late summer 2010, The Church announced redesign plans for the temple. The new design lowers the building by 6 feet, meaning the temple will... Read the rest of this article »
The announcement that a new temple will be constructed by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Gilbert, Arizona, USA, was made on 26 April 2008. The temple should open in 2010, and will be located at the Southeast corner of Greenfield Road and Pecos Road, Gilbert, on a 10-acre parcel of land.
The design of the temple is expected to be similar to that of the Twin Falls, Idaho temple. Discussions are now taking place as to what sort of land use will surround the temple, since prior plans included recreational facilities not in keeping with the sacred nature of the temple. The Church prefers residential or peaceful commercial zoning.
This temple, and the one under construction in Gila Valley, are meant to take the pressure off the two temples already existing in Arizona, in Mesa and Snowflake.
Located in the fast-growing Southeast Valley of the Phoenix metropolitan area—just south of Mesa—Gilbert and its surrounding communities enjoy a high concentration of Church members,... Read the rest of this article »
The Gila Valley Arizona Mormon Temple was announced on 26 April 2008, and the groundbreaking took place on 14 February 2009. The temple is located at 5291 West Highway 70, Central, Arizona, United States.
The site is 17 acres and includes an adjacent meetinghouse and recreational area. The exterior finish of the temple will be architectural precast stone. The temple is a classic modern, single-spire design. It has two ordinance rooms and two sealing rooms and comprises 18,561 square feet.
This is Arizona’s third temple, and a fourth and fifth have been announced, to be built in Phoenix and Gilbert. Arizona has a large, active Mormon population, and has since the early days of the Church. The Gila Valley Arizona Temple serves the faithful Saints of southeastern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico, who traveled some 150 miles or more to attend the Mesa Arizona Temple or the Albuquerque New Mexico Temple. The temple serves approximately 32,000 members from seven... Read the rest of this article »
Ground was broken for the Oquirrh Mountain Utah Temple on Saturday morning, December 16, 2006, by President Gordon B. Hinckley in a service attended by hundreds of faithful members. The new temple opened its doors for public tours on June 1, 2009. The free open house required reservations and ran through August 1, 2009. Around 600,000 people attended the temple open house. Twelve dedicatory sessions were planned from August 22 through August 23, 2009. Local priesthood leaders distributed tickets for the dedication. The Sunday, August 23rd dedicatory sessions were broadcast through closed-circuit television to stake centers in the state. The temple opened for ordinance work after the dedication, on August 25th. The temple is the 130th operating temple in the world and the 13th in Utah.
The temple is a 60,000 square-foot edifice situated on a 12-acre plot in southwest Salt Lake Valley. Oquirrh (pronounced “oh-ker”) is a Goshute Indian word meaning “shining mountains,” a fitting... Read the rest of this article »
The Twin Falls Idaho Temple is the 128th announced temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
On October 2, 2004, the First Presidency of the Mormon Church announced plans to build a temple in Twin Falls, Idaho. The 9.1-acre site for the temple is at Eastland Dr. North. The Church purchased the land formerly used for Candleridge Golf Course.
Twin Falls Mormon Temple 20 June 2007
With its completion, the temple is now the fourth Mormon temple in Idaho and will serve more than 50,000 members in 14 stakes.
On November 8, 2005, the Twin Falls Planning and Zoning Commission approved the permits needed to go forward with the building of the temple. A special permit was given which allows the temple to exceed the city’s 35-foot maximum height limit. The design for the temple was unveiled on October 6, 2005, at a press conference. The temple design is inspired by the nearby Shoshone Falls, and the temple comprises 27,850 square feet and is 159 feet tall. On the 9.1 acre site,... Read the rest of this article »
On May 17, 1877, the building of the Logan Utah Mormon temple was announced. The day before, the site had been dedicated, and construction began quickly. The site of the Logan Temple had been held in reserve for many years. It was used as a park and public grounds before being dedicated as the site for the temple.
A call was sent out for workers. Brigham Young asked that all of the people that worked on the temple volunteer their time or other aid. “We require the brethren to go with their might and erect a temple and from the architect to the boy who carries the drinking water and the men who work on the building, we wish them to understand that wages are entirely out of the question. We are going to build a house for ourselves and we shall expect the brethren and sisters, neighborhood after neighborhood, ward after ward, to turn out their proportion of men to come here and labor as they shall be notified.” He also encouraged the saints to have the temple done in three and a half years.
25,000... Read the rest of this article »
