Oquirrh Mountain Utah Temple

Oquirrh Mountain Utah Temple
Oquirrh Mountain Utah Temple in May 2009.
Number	130
Dedicated	August 23, 2009 (August 23, 2009) by Thomas S. Monson
Site	11 acres (4.5 hectares)
Floor area	60,000 sq ft (5,600 m2)
Height	183 ft (56 m)
Preceded by	Draper Utah Temple
Followed by	Vancouver British Columbia Temple
Official website • News & images
showAdditional information Announced October 1, 2005 Groundbreaking December 16, 2006 by Gordon B. Hinckley Open House June 1, 2009 to August 1, 2009 Designed by Naylor Wentworth Location 11022 South 4000 West South Jordan, Utah 84095 United States Exterior finish light beige granite Ordinance rooms 4 (Movie, two-stage progressive sessions) Sealing rooms 6 Clothing rental No Cafeteria No Visitors' center No Notes 13th temple in Utah and 130th LDS temple.

Coordinates: 40°33′4.121999″N 111°59′15.03600″W / 40.55114499972°N 111.9875100000°W / 40.55114499972; -111.9875100000

Oquirrh Mountain Temple nearly complete

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.

History[]

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]

Located on an 11-acre (45,000 m²) site, the temple sits at the foot of the Oquirrh Mountains that form the western edge of the Salt Lake Valley and faces east toward a panoramic view of the Wasatch Mountains. From the site, visitors can see the other three temples in the valley: the Draper, Jordan River and Salt Lake temples.

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 21–23, 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]

See also[]

• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah
• Comparison of temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
• List of temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
• List of temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by geographic region
• Temple architecture (Latter-day Saints)

References[]

Additional reading[]

• "Groundbreaking Held for Oquirrh Mountain Utah Temple". Newsroom. LDS Church. December 16, 2006. Archived from the original on January 4, 2007. Retrieved December 19, 2006.
• Page, Jared; Moore, Carrie (December 1, 2006). "S. Jordan planners OK temple". Deseret Morning News. Retrieved August 18, 2019.

External links[]

• Media related to Oquirrh Mountain Utah Temple at Wikimedia Commons
• Oquirrh Mountain Utah Temple Official site
• Oquirrh Mountain Utah Temple at ChurchofJesusChristTemples.org