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The celestial room in temples like the Salt Lake Temple shown here represents the highest level of heaven in LDS theology, and is reached after passing the testing portion of the endowment ceremony. In Mormonism, the endowment is a two-part ordinance (ceremony) designed for participants to become kings, queens, priests, and priestesses in the ...
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).
According to 19th-century journal entries and contemporary sources, the LDS second anointing ceremony consists of three parts: Prayer and Washing - First the couple and an officiator or two participate in a prayer circle (conducted by the husband) in a dedicated temple room, and then a male officiator washes only the husband's feet. [43]
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 ...
In the LDS Church's modern practices, the endowment ceremony directs new participants to take a number of solemn oaths or covenants such as an oath of consecration to the LDS Church. Also in the LDS Church's modern practices, completing the endowment ceremony is a prerequisite to both full-time missionary service and temple marriage.
Any LDS member wishing to spend time within the Temple would first stop in the two dressing rooms, we are told, there, changing from street clothes into long-sleeved, high-necked, long white ...
It is a key part of the temple endowment ceremony as well as the controversial Second Anointing ceremony practiced by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) and Mormon fundamentalists. It was also part of the female-only healing rituals among Latter-day Saints until at least the 1940s.
The temple is the fourth largest Latter-day Saint temple (but second-largest in Utah) and has a total of 148,236 square feet (13,771.6 m 2), one baptistry, one celestial room, six ordinance rooms which are used for the endowment ceremony, and sixteen sealing rooms (used for marriage ordinances). The interior features stained glass, dark wood ...