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The temple has a total floor area of 115,507 square feet (10,731.0 m 2) with 4 ordinance rooms, 11 sealing rooms (used to perform marriages), and one baptistry. [6] Because the upper room occupies the entire floor, 6 trusses were used across the width of the building to secure it.
Originally built with one ordinance room and three sealing rooms, the temple was remodeled in 1992 to update of the interiors and add ordinance and sealing rooms. The temple now has four ordinance rooms and seven sealing rooms. It has a floor area of 35,545 sq ft (3,302.2 m 2). In 2005, an angel Moroni statue was added to the spire in ...
The first building to have ordinance rooms, designed to conduct the Endowment, was Joseph Smith's store in Nauvoo, Illinois, in 1842.Using canvas, Smith divided the store's large, second-floor room into "departments," which represented "the interior of a temple as much as circumstances would permit" (Anderson & Bergera, Quorum of Anointed, 2).
The design includes a single ordinance room that acts as the Creation Room, Garden Room, World Room, and Terrestrial Room, leading to the adjacent Celestial Room. A sealing room and small baptistry are also included. Most temples built, beginning with the Monticello Utah Temple, share the same floorplan.
A temple sealing for a living couple has the man and woman kneel on opposite sides of an altar in a temple sealing room while wearing ceremonial temple robes. [3] They grasp each other's right hand while facing double mirrors that create an infinite reflection.
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The temple includes six ordinance rooms and 11 sealing rooms. The temple was the first to have six ordinance rooms. It remains one of only four temples to have six ordinance rooms; the others being the Provo Utah, Jordan River, and Washington D.C. temples.