Utah Temples
LDS Temple Architecture
LDS Temple Misc.
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This temple site had to be cleared of hundreds of rattlesnakes before construction could commence.
What is the Manti temple?
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This temple was the first constructed outside of the United States.
What is the Cardston Alberta Temple? (also first to be built without an assembly hall on the upper floor).
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This temple was originally constructed with a horizontal (flying) angel atop its tower.
What is the Nauvoo Illinois Temple?
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This was the first temple dedicated in the State of Utah.
What is the Ogden, Utah temple? (Utah gained statehood on January 4, 1896. Four temples, including SLC, had already been dedicated in the Utah Territory).
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This temple was the first constructed in Europe.
What is the Bern Switzerland Temple? (also first temple to not have English as the predominant language).
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The number of temples operating, under construction, and announced as of November 2, 2025.
What is 382?
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This is the number of temples in operation in Utah.
What is 22? (Additional 10 announced or under construction).
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This temple was built with two main spires as many of its predecessors, but it also included four smaller spires. The exterior of the temple was finished with marble chips in plaster giving the temple a fairytale like appearance.
What is San Diego California Temple?
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This temple was the first temple to be dedicated in a nation where Christianity was not the predominant religion.
What is the Tokyo Japan Temple? (In Japan the two main religions are Buddhism and Shinto.)
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In 1997 President Hinckley announced during General Conference that a new phase of temples were to be built. These temples would be smaller thus allowing more to be built. This temple was the first of the smaller temples to be built.
What is the Monticello Utah Temple?
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This temple was built in a place without a lot of normal building materials, instead the builders decided to use the natural volcanic rock and coral to make a type of concrete.
What is Laie Hawaii temple?
400
This was the first temple dedicated in the State of Utah.
What is the Suva Fiji Temple?
500
Endowments for the dead were performed for the first time in this Utah Temple.
What is the St. George, Utah Temple?
500
This Utah City was the first in the world to have two temples.
What is South Jordan, Utah? (Jordan River Temple and Oquirrh Mountain Temple).
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For this temple, city officials showed their support by renaming the street and the three blocks on which it was located to Temple Drive, Genealogist, and Chapel.
What is the Stockholm Sweden Temple?
