Utah Temple Facts
This temple site had to be cleared of hundreds of rattlesnakes before construction could commence.
What is the Manti Temple?
Name the two individuals you must interview with before being permitted to enter the temple.
What is the Bishop and Stake President?
In ancient scripture this natural geographic feature is compared to the temple.
What is a mountain?
This temple is the only one that has five spires.
What is the Oakland California Temple?
In the temple we wear white to symbolize these attributes. Name one of the three.
What is purity, oneness, or equality?
This is the oldest temple where ordinances are still performed today.
What is the St. George temple?
The Priesthood used to administer the ordinances of the temple. Men must be ordained to this priesthood before receiving the initiatory and endowment ordinances.
What is the Melchizedek Priesthood?
This ancient version of the temple was made to be moveable as the Israelites wandered for 40 years.
What is the tabernacle?
This temple was the first in two ways: it was the first to be built outside of the United States, and it was the first to be built without an assembly hall on the upper floors.
What is the Cardston Alberta Temple?
The final room you enter in the endowment represents this place where God lives.
What is the Celestial Kingdom?
This is the number of temples in operation in Utah.
What is 18?
Name 2 of the commandments specially named in the interview as requirements to be worthy to enter the temple.
What is the Word of Wisdom, Law of Chastity, Tithing, Being Honest, or Keeping the Sabbath Day Holy?
The ruler for which came the name for the temple that Jesus taught in.
Who is Herod?
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 the San Diego California Temple?
The mirrors placed directly across from each other in the Sealing Rooms represent this length of time.
In 1997 President Gordon B. 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 temple to be built.
What is the Monticello Utah Temple?
This temple ordinance comprises washing, anointing, and clothing. It is preparatory to receiving your endowment and described in Exodus 29.
What is the initiatory?
This early temple was adorned with gold, silver, and many other precious materials. It also took seven years to construct.
What is the Temple of Solomon?
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 the Laie Hawaii Temple?
Moroni, while not required in temple design, is often included to symbolize this...
What is the Restoration of the Gospel of Jesus Christ?
President Young stated that this temple would be built with volunteer labor only "wages are entirely out of the question. Nevertheless, the temple can be built without any burden to ourselves." The temple is located in the Cache Valley.
What is the Logan Utah Temple?
Name 2 of the 5 covenants made in the Endowment.
What is Law of Obedience, Law of Sacrifice, Law of the Gospel, Law of Chastity, or Law of Consecration?
The 2nd temple built in Jerusalem. It was built following the return from Persia, smaller and simpler than other phases of the temple.
Zerubbabel's Temple
Name one of the three temples built to resemble Solomon's Temple.
What is the Laie Hawaii, Cardston Alberta Canada, or Mesa Arizona Temples?
The temple recommend represents this as described in the Washington D.C. open house video.
What is our readiness to make the covenants and meet God?