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The Provo Utah Temple (formerly the Provo Temple) was a temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints located in Provo, Utah, just north of Brigham Young University (BYU). The intent to build the temple was announced on August 14, 1967, by Hugh B. Brown and N. Eldon Tanner .
The Provo City Center Temple [5] is a temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), built on the site of the former Provo Tabernacle in Provo, Utah. Completed in 2016, the temple uses much of the external shell of the tabernacle that remained from the original building after a fire in December 2010.
LDS Church president Thomas S. Monson announced in general conference on October 1, 2011, that the Provo Tabernacle would be rebuilt to serve as a second temple in Provo, [21] making Provo the second city in the LDS Church to have two temples, following South Jordan, Utah, which has the Jordan River and Oquirrh Mountain temples.
The trend continued with the Provo Utah Temple (15), and eight years later with the Jordan River Utah Temple (20). Each temple was larger than the last (128,325 sq ft (11,921.8 m 2 ) and 148,236 sq ft (13,771.6 m 2 ), respectively), and added more sealing rooms: twelve for Provo and seventeen for Jordan River.
The Provo Utah Temple is at the base of Rock Canyon in Provo. This temple has been among the busiest in the LDS Church due to its proximity to BYU and the MTC. [49] The temple closed in February 2024, has been razed, and is currently being reconstructed. The temple, estimated for completion in 2027, will reopen as the Provo Utah Rock Canyon ...
Ogden Utah Temple: Operating 112,232 sq ft (10,427 m 2) 9.96 acres (40,307 m 2) January 18, 1972 Joseph Fielding Smith: 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: 16 Washington D.C. Temple: Operating 156,558 sq ft (14,545 m 2) 52 acres (210,437 ...
2023 December 12 – The Provo Utah Temple in Provo, Utah was vandalized by a man with a hammer. [249] [250] 2024 March 27 – At least three people attacked a meetinghouse in Henderson, Nevada by throwing an explosive into the meetinghouse while it was occupied; four people inside the meetinghouse were injured. [251] [252] [253]
Richard Olsen Cowan (born 1934) is a historian of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) and a former professor in the Church History Department of Brigham Young University (BYU). [1] He was one of the longest-serving BYU faculty and the longest-serving member of the Church History Department ever.