Oquirrh Mountain Utah Temple | ||||
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![]() Oquirrh Mountain Utah Temple in May 2009. | ||||
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Number | 130 | |||
Dedication | August 21, 2009, by Thomas S. Monson | |||
Site | 11 acres (4.5 ha) | |||
Floor area | 60,000 sq ft (5,600 m2) | |||
Height | 183 ft (56 m) | |||
Official website • News & images | ||||
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Additional information | ||||
Announced | October 1, 2005, by Gordon B. Hinckley | |||
Groundbreaking | December 16, 2006, by Gordon B. Hinckley | |||
Open house | June 1, 2009 to August 1, 2009 | |||
Current president | Dallan Layne Sohm | |||
Designed by | Naylor Wentworth | |||
Location | South Jordan, Utah, United States | |||
Geographic coordinates | 40°33′4.121999″N 111°59′15.03600″W / 40.55114499972°N 111.9875100000°W | |||
Exterior finish | light beige granite | |||
Baptistries | 1 | |||
Ordinance rooms | 4 (two-stage progressive) | |||
Sealing rooms | 6 | |||
Notes | 13th temple in Utah and 130th LDS temple. | |||
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The Oquirrh Mountain Utah Temple /ˈoʊkər/ is a temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints located in South Jordan, Utah, a suburb of Salt Lake City. South Jordan was the first city in the world to have two temples (it also has the Jordan River Temple). The temple was the fourth in the Salt Lake Valley and the 13th in the state of Utah.
The Oquirrh Mountain Utah Temple serves approximately 83,000 Latter-day Saints living in the western Salt Lake Valley. The building is faced with light beige granite quarried and milled in China.
The Oquirrh Mountain Utah Temple was built on a bluff on the edge of the Daybreak Community; [1] [2] the property was donated to the church by Kennecott Land, a portion of a company that mines copper and precious minerals from the Oquirrh Mountains, just a few miles west of the temple. The edifice features a single stone spire 193 feet (59 m) high, topped by a 9-foot (2.7 m) statue of the angel Moroni. Ground was broken for construction on December 16, 2006. [3] At the groundbreaking it was announced the structure would be named the "Oquirrh Mountain Utah Temple"; it had previously been known as the "South Jordan Utah Temple". [4]
On June 13, 2009, the spire was struck by lightning during a thunderstorm. The statue of the Angel Moroni was tarnished, and was replaced on August 11, 2009. [5] [6]
Prior to dedicatory services that took place on August 21 to 23, 2009, the public was invited to tour the new temple during an open house from June 1, 2009, to August 1, 2009. [7]
In 2020, like all the church's other temples, the Oquirrh Mountain Utah Temple was closed in response to the coronavirus pandemic. [8]
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