Provo City Center Temple

Provo City Center Temple

Number

150

Dedication

20 March 2016 by
Dallin H. Oaks

Floor area

85,084 sq ft (7,905 m²)

Height

150 ft (46 m)

Preceded by

Tijuana Mexico Temple

Followed by

Sapporo Japan Temple

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Additional information
Announcement	1 October 2011
Groundbreaking	12 May 2012 by Jeffrey R. Holland
Open House	Friday, 15 January 2016-Saturday, 5 March 2016
Location	50 S. University Ave., Provo, Utah
Ordinance rooms	3 with Progressive/Movie sessions
Sealing rooms	5
Notes	Announced by Thomas S. Monson on October 1, 2011 LDS spokesperson reported that it will be called the Provo City Center Temple.

Coordinates: 40°13′56.9424″N 111°39′32.2992″W / 40.232484000°N 111.658972000°W / 40.232484000; -111.658972000

The Provo City Center Temple is a temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) on the same site as the former Provo Tabernacle in Provo, Utah. Completed in 2016, the temple utilizes much of the external shell of the tabernacle, all that remained of the original building after a fire in December 2010.

The intent to construct the temple was announced by church president Thomas S. Monson on October 1, 2011, during the church's semi-annual general conference. The temple was announced concurrently with those to be built in Barranquilla, Colombia; Durban, South Africa; Kinshasa, DR Congo; and Star Valley, Wyoming, along with the temple in Paris, France which had been previously announced. At the time, this brought the total number of temples worldwide (either completed, under construction or announced) to 166 and the number of temples in Utah to 16. Provo thus became the second city in the LDS Church to have two temples, the first being South Jordan, Utah, with the Jordan River and Oquirrh Mountain temples. It is the second tabernacle in Utah to be converted to a temple, the first being the Vernal Utah Temple, and the fourth LDS temple converted from an existing building. (The three previous being the Vernal Utah Temple, the Copenhagen Denmark Temple, and the Manhattan New York Temple.) It is one of only two LDS temples not to include the name of the state/province or country in which the temple is located (the other being the Salt Lake Temple).

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