Church announces open house dates for Taylorsville Temple

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• Building a Retaining Wall Around the Taylorsville Utah Temple
• Here’s Your First Look Inside the Cobán Guatemala Temple
• Temple Open Houses and Dedications
• Temples
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• Taylorsville Temple is the latest in a string of open houses and dedications planned across the state.

More temple open houses and dedications are planned across Utah. The temples to be built in Lehi and West Jordan, Utah, were announced just weeks ago during the Church's April conference. The temple will hold its dedication in two session on Sunday, June 2, with Elder Gerrit W. Gong of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles conducting the ceremony.

Building a Retaining Wall Around the Taylorsville Utah Temple

It was the third — and finally successful — groundbreaking date set for the Salta temple, in the country’s northwest area. COVID-19 concerns had postponed previously scheduled dates in mid-August and early October of 2020. Dates of free public open houses and dedications or rededications are listed below.

Here’s Your First Look Inside the Cobán Guatemala Temple

The third ordinance rezoned the temple property from Single Family Residential to Site Specific Development – Institutional – Temple. The resolution approved a development agreement with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for construction of the temple. Latter-day Saint temples are a sacred place for Church members to visit and make sacred promises with God, like keep His commandments or marriage promises. The Yorba Linda California Temple will be the ninth temple built in California and the second built in Orange County, following the Newport Beach California Temple (2005).

Temple Open Houses and Dedications

The public open house will run from Saturday, April 13, through Saturday, May 18, excluding Sundays. One of the focal points of the temple is its single octagonal tower. Its ornamental structure with stained glass detailing and is designed to create a spiritually uplifting atmosphere within the temple. The temple's layout includes four instruction rooms used for the endowment ceremony, four sealing rooms, and a baptistry, each designed for specific ceremonial functions. Media attended a news conference and tour of the house of the Lord on Tuesday, April 9, 2024.

The three will be dedicated on successive Sundays in June — the Taylorsville temple on June 2, the Cobán temple on June 9 and the Salta temple on June 16. The latter is the same day as the dedication of the Layton Utah Temple. Open house tours and activities hosted daily (except Sundays). Click here for more detailed information about the open house. More detailed information about the open house is coming soon. Click here for more detailed information about the open house.

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A media day is scheduled for Monday, April 22, with invited guests to visit the temple Tuesday and Wednesday, April 23-24. After a temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is built or has undergone an extensive renovation, it is opened for public tours prior to being dedicated or rededicated. After the dedication or rededication, Church members with temple recommends can enter to perform sacred ordinances. A second St. George temple, the newly built Red Cliffs edifice, will welcome public tours from Feb. 1 through March 2 before a scheduled March 24 dedication. The Layton Temple is scheduled for a June 16 dedication after an April 19-June 1 open house. Visitors of all ages are invited to a free public open house held for most new or renovated temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Light-Gauge Steel Framing Underway at the Taylorsville Utah Temple

Less than 10 weeks later, the First Presidency identified the site location, centrally located within the Salt Lake Valley just west of Interstate 215 and southwest of the Belt Route’s 4700 South interchange. ChurchofJesusChristTemples.org shares construction news, photographs, maps, and interesting facts about the temples of the restored Church of Jesus Christ. The Taylorsville temple is one of 28 total temples in operation, under construction or under renovation in Utah, home to more than 2.1 million Latter-day Saints spread throughout some 5,400 congregations. The Taylorsville temple was announced by Church President Russell M. Nelson during the women’s session of the October 2019 general conference. In advance of attending the open house, attendees are invited to watch an introductory video about temples, available online.

Taylorsville Temple is the latest in a string of open houses and dedications planned across the state.

Second, they attend temples to love others by doing temple ordinances for deceased ancestors as a free-will offering those ancestors may accept or reject. The house of the Lord is a three-story, 73,492-square-foot building with a center spire, on a 7.5-acre site at 2603 W. Previously on the site sat a Church meetinghouse and a recreational field. The Taylorsville temple was announced by President Nelson during the women’s session of the October 2019 general conference.

Taylorsville Utah Temple open house begins Saturday: See the first photos

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The open house includes a video (see left) and a walk-through tour of the temple. After Tuesday’s media day events, tours for invited guests will continue through Friday, April 12, with a public open house is scheduled for Saturday, April 13, through Saturday, May 18, excluding Sundays. The church will host news media and other invited guests from Tuesday, April 9, 2024, through Friday, April 12, 2024, before the public open house begins. Elder Benjamín De Hoyos, a General Authority Seventy and then the South America South Area president, presided at the Nov. 4, 2020, groundbreaking ceremony.

The open house includes a video and a walk-through tour of the temple. After the temple is formally dedicated, entrance is reserved for faithful members of the Church. SALT LAKE CITY — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has announced dates for a public open house at the temple in Taylorsville. The church invites visitors of all ages to tour the temple before it is dedicated in June.

Walking tours of the temple will be offered daily except for Sundays. The temple will be dedicated on Sunday, 19 May 2024 in multiple sessions. Walking tours of the temple will be offered daily except for Sundays and Saturday, April 6. There are 2.1 million members of the church in Utah, church leaders said in the press release announcing the dates. The temple will be dedicated by Elder Gerrit W. Gong of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in two sessions, which will be broadcast to members who live within the temple's district. The Cobán temple will be the third dedicated house of the Lord in Guatemala, joining the Guatemala City Guatemala Temple (dedicated in 1984) and the Quetzaltenango Guatemala Temple (2011).

The open house will run from April 13 to May 18, with invited guests attending starting April 9. During the open house dates, anyone is invited to tour the temple between Monday and Saturday. TAYLORSVILLE — The Taylorsville Utah Temple will be open for public tours starting in April before its dedication on June 2, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced Tuesday. A fourth temple — the Miraflores Guatemala City Guatemala Temple — has been under construction since its December 2022 groundbreaking. A temple in Huehuetenango has its site released, and another in Retalhuleu is in planning.

Distribution center is on site or nearby to purchase temple garments and clothing. In Salt Lake City, meanwhile, work continues on the massive overhaul and seismic upgrade of the faith’s most iconic building, a six-spired structure that took 40 years to construct. Large crowds are expected when it opens to the general public for the first time since just before its 1893 dedication. Salt Lake Temple — Closed since the end of 2019 for seismic upgrades and extensive renovations, the temple had its projected completion date recently amended to 2026.

The Taylorsville Utah Temple is made with structural steel and stone cladding. It stands on the former site of a Church meetinghouse and recreational field. The architect derived much inspiration from local pioneer tabernacles. Built of structural steel and stone cladding, the temple features a pioneer-era Gothic architectural style, with the arches and motifs inspired by local pioneer-era tabernacles in communities along Utah’s Wasatch Front. The pioneer-era Salt Lake and Manti (the latter is set for dedication April 21 after a March 14-April 5 open house) temples are undergoing renovation.