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Reservations are now available online to tour the renovated St. George Utah Temple during the public open house, via reservations.churchofjesuschrist.org. It is one of a half-dozen temples with either ongoing public open houses or ones that will start in the next month. In announcing 12 new temples at the October 2018 general conference, President Russell M. Nelson also said that the Salt Lake Temple and other pioneer-era temples will be renovated. The Saints overcame the problem of a swampy site in an ingenious way. They decided to bring lava rock to the site then made drains to get rid of much of the water.
Exterior
Lighting features and the baptismal font area are inspired by leaf shapes and area succulents, while stone and tile patterns suggest the layered structures of local mountains. The temple also features exterior arches as well as a vertical emphasis with deep pilasters — rectangular columns projecting from a wall. The pilasters are an architectural cue from the Church’s Wilshire Ward meetinghouse in Los Angeles, California.
‘It looks more like the historic temple.’ The public open house for the St. George Utah Temple begins next week
The natural colors of the almond blossom are used against a backdrop of yellow fading to blue. Richardson Design Partnership designed the art glass with assistance from Holdman Studios. The glass’s main design motif is the regionally significant almond blossom. The Red Cliffs temple is one of a dozen temple in Utah that will be dedicated or rededicated in the next several years. Utah is home of the Church’s world headquarters and nearly 2.2 million Latter-day Saints.
Interior features of the St. George temple
The public open house will run from Thursday, Feb. 1, through Saturday, March 2, excluding Sundays. The temple will be dedicated on Sunday, 13 October 2024 in multiple sessions. The temple will be dedicated on Sunday, 22 September 2024 in multiple sessions.
To make free reservations to tour the temple, visit reservations.churchofjesuschrist.org. The St. George temple is one of several with ongoing or pending public open houses. The windows of the St. George Utah Temple have always had clear glass, similar to other temples such as Nauvoo, Kirtland, and Salt Lake. The original 1877 wood windows were determined to be insufficient for needed thermal performance and were replaced by new wood windows made by Re-View Windows Inc. in Kansas City, Missouri.
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Pioneer-era temples and renovations
In areas where the existing plaster was failing or needed to be removed to accommodate new electrical, HVAC or plumbing, it was replaced with new plaster or drywall. Most of the temple is painted in its original white to match the historic interiors, but a few rooms have a light-colored paint, such as the celestial room and the large sealing rooms located in the annex. The tower has three tiers, with a base about 32 feet square, an octagonal second level, and a smaller octagonal third stage topped by a small dome. The tower is a wood structure rather than the red sand-stone of the exterior walls below. Because of aging and corrosion, the original wood dome exterior was replaced entirely with white fiberglass in the 1990s.
Repaving Around the St. George Utah Temple
The temple’s previous murals — suggesting a sequence of creation, garden and world — were removed in the 1980s and partially restored in the 1990s. With the recent renovations, three artists were commissioned — one each for the three instruction rooms — to create scenes of southwest Utah’s rugged natural beauty. The millwork throughout the temple — including altars, recommend desk and cabinets — reflect the design and detail from the 1870s. Doors are white-painted wood, with replacement bronze hardware based on historic precedents. The flooring is new wood, carpet and tile, with the wood similar to the historic flooring used in some areas of the north addition. The baptistry flooring is of red metaquartzite quarried near Las Vegas, Nevada.
Remains Lighting in New York City manufactured the metal decorative lighting fixtures, which are made of cast bronze with a two-tone finish to match the building’s hardware finishes. Other decorative fixtures are period antiques that have been refurbished and rewired for use in the temple. All lighting fixtures are historically consistent with those found in the late 1800s. The historic St. George Utah Temple, the Church’s longest-operating house of the Lord, was announced by Brigham Young in 1871, and the temple was dedicated in 1877. It has gone through previous renovations, including in 1917, 1938 and 1975.
St. George Utah Temple
The southern Utah pioneer-era temple — the oldest and longest-operating of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — has been under renovation since November 2019. The St. George temple has undergone multiple renovations since it was originally dedicated in 1877, according to the Church News. It will continue through Saturday, Nov. 11, excluding Sundays and Saturday, Sept. 30, due to general conference. The veil and celestial rooms historically featured murals that represented the room in the progressive sequence of creation, garden and world rooms. These murals were removed in the 1970s and partially restored in the 1990s. New murals were commissioned that capture the rugged natural beauty of the southwest Utah landscape.
There is also a new baptistry entrance on the south side of the temple and a bride’s exit on the northeast corner. The desert’s simplicity, symmetry and color are seen in both the exterior and interior of the temple. Following its extensive renovation over two-plus years, the St. George temple hosted its public open house beginning Sept. 15, 2023, and concluding Nov. 15, less than three months ago.
In October 2018 general conference, President Russell M. Nelson announced the Church’s intention to renovate its pioneer temples, with the St. George Utah Temple the first since to be completed. Renovation plans and exterior renderings were released in May 2019, with the temple closing in early November of the same year. Andy Kirby, director of the Church’s historic temple renovations, said of the renovations, “It has [an] all-new heating, air conditioning and cooling system .
Jason Cobb, an on-site foreman for Grant Mackay Demolition Company, has been doing this type of construction work for 14 years, but this job is different. As a member of the Church, he said working on the temple allows him to be a part of history. He said, "It feels amazing to me to have the opportunity to be able to work on temples . . . to be able to feel the love that the Lord has for His house and for each one of us." According to the Church's Newsroom site, the St. George Utah Temple, the first of four pioneer-era temples, closed on Monday, 4 November 2019, to undergo "extensive structural, mechanical, electrical, finish and plumbing work." In November 2005, the Los Angeles California Temple closed for a seismic overhaul and renovation of the baptistry, reopening July 11, 2006—the same year as the 50th anniversary of the dedication of the temple. During that time, the Church had difficulty locating suitable acreage on which to build a stake center.
The announcement to build the St. George temple was given on 9 November 1871, and a groundbreaking ceremony was held that same day. Brigham Young, the prophet and president of the Church at the time, personally chose a six-acre plot as the site for the temple. The afternoon of the groundbreaking ceremony the Saints immediately began construction for their new temple. Unfortunately, the Saints soon discovered that the site was swampy with numerous underground streams. They asked Brigham Young if perhaps they should move the site, but he remained firm that this was the site for the temple.
Walking tours of the temple will be offered daily except for Sundays and Saturday, April 6. St. George’s newest house of the Lord originally was referred to as the Washington County Utah Temple when President Russell M. Nelson announced plans in October 2018 general conference for a second temple in the area. The Washington County name was still referenced when the site location — northeast of 3000 East and 1580 South in southeastern St. George — and preliminary building size were published a year later, in November 2019. The two open houses and the rededication of the older temple and the dedication of the new one mark the first time that such milestone events for two houses of the Lord have been held so closely together in both time and location.
Before the Mesa Arizona Temple was constructed, Arizona members performed temple ordinances in the St. George Utah Temple. Because of the numerous bridal parties that traveled the wagon road between St. George and Arizona, the well-trod path became known as the Honeymoon Trail. Two other historic Utah temples — in Manti and Logan will also be renovated. The St. George Utah Temple serves Latter-day Saint communities in southwestern Utah and parts of Arizona and Nevada. Despite the closure, temple-going Latter-day Saints will be able to continue attending temple services at the Cedar City Utah Temple. After Cedar City, the nearest Latter-day Saint temple is the Las Vegas Nevada Temple.
The progressive-style ordinance rooms that were used to present 3 live-acting endowment sessions a day, were replaced with three motion-picture ordinance rooms that accommodated 14 sessions a day. The ceilings of the historic building were mostly replaced with new plaster and drywall because of the sagging wood floor structure above that required reinforcing. The ceilings of the north addition are painted drywall, with suspended ceiling tiles used in some areas, such as the dressing rooms. The profiles of crown moldings match historic moldings found in the temple.
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