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The Salt Lake Temple is a temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Temple Square in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. At 253,015 square feet (23,505.9 m 2 ), it is the largest Latter-day Saint temple by floor area.
Salt Lake Temple [119] Closed for renovation 382,207 sq ft (35,508 m 2) 10 acres (40,469 m 2) April 6, 1893 Wilford Woodruff: edit: 15 Provo Utah Temple: Closed for renovation 128,325 sq ft (11,922 m 2) 17 acres (68,797 m 2) February 9, 1972 Joseph Fielding Smith: edit: 34 Stockholm Sweden Temple: Closed for renovation 31,000 sq ft (2,880 m 2)
Closed for renovation 72,000 sq ft 6,700 m 2: San Jose California Temple: ... Salt Lake Temple: edit: Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S. Closed for renovation 382,207 sq ft
The Salt Lake Temple, operated by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is the church's best-known temple. Located in Salt Lake City, Utah, it is the centerpiece of the 10-acre (40,000 m 2) Temple Square. In the Latter Day Saint movement, a temple is a building dedicated to being a house of God and is reserved for special forms of ...
The monument was later moved to a location just south of the Salt Lake Temple, near the eastern wall of Temple Square. [1] In 2006, it was placed next to Fairbanks' Restoration of the Melchizedek Priesthood sculpture in an area between the temple and South Visitors Center. It has since been moved as part of the 2020s redevelopment of Temple Square.
The Salt Lake Temple, the first of the castellated temples to be started yet last to be finished, is made with a sandstone foundation. The walls are quartz monzonite (which has the appearance of granite) from Little Cottonwood Canyon, located twenty miles (thirty-two kilometres) southeast of the temple. It is the largest temple in the church ...
Temple Square is a 10-acre (4.0 ha) complex, owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), in the center of Salt Lake City, Utah.The usage of the name has gradually changed to include several other church facilities that are immediately adjacent to Temple Square.
The church's top leadership, known as general authorities, hold a weekly meeting in the nearby Salt Lake Temple. During the 2020s, when the temple was closed due to a large-scale renovation project, the eighth floor of the Joseph Smith Memorial Building underwent an estimated $2,000,000 remodel, after which it was dedicated as a sacred meeting ...