Temple Open House Begins

Manti Utah Temple

Media day on March 11th
Open House through April 5th 

(Long lines on the weekends)


Because of the Staircases between the ordinance rooms, wheelchairs can’t be accommodated in these rooms. 

It appears that the temple in Ephraim will primarily serve those patrons


Interior Photos

New curtains and Film screens with hanging projectors added to the ordinance rooms
Cushions added to the old benches
Large television screens added to the Terrestrial Room. 



Rooms

Chapel with a 1906 a copy of Benard Plockhorst’s Jesus Blessing the Children – Baby Jesus with a man face
Hallway – Isaac Morely framed green apron. 
Baptistry: Robert Shepard

Scenes from Baptism of Jesus, Oliver and Joseph, and the waters of Mormon 
Dove painted on the ceiling above the font. 
Scriptural verses from:

Matthew 3: 13-15
III Nephi 19:12-14
Pearl of Great Price 56:70

Not the first edition 






Creation Room: C.C.A Christensen mural from 1886

Danish Convert in 1850 who studied at the Royal Art Institute of Copenhagen
Murals preserved despite being painted onto plaster. Layers of dirt, grime and plaster were removed.  
Attempted to visualize the creation accounts in Genesis 
Dinosaurs in creation murals
Copied out of the book: The world before the deluge


Garden Room: Robert Shepherd mural from 1944

Features many animals and the trees from the garden of eden


 World Room Murals: Minerva Tiechert mural from 1947 – painted on canvas

First woman to be commissioned to paint a temple mural
Intimidated by the 60 ft long room, 24 ft high. 
Contracted for $4000, including cost of the paint
Being only 5’2, 117 lbs, she found it exhausting to climb scaffolding all day. 

She fell off and had to miss a few hours to see a doctor for her arm, but returned after a few hours.


She set a self imposed deadline of a month to finish, even though the church officials expected it to take a year. 
They had to take breaks when an endowment session moved through the room. 
With the help of some assistants, they finished the 120 figures and 4000 square feet in 23 working days.
She returned on some trips during the following year ot make touchups. 
Back Wall: Tower of Babel
South Wall (Windows) – Biblical history in four parts

 Abraham in Cannon 
Joseph in Egypt
Moses, golden calf, and tablets
Pilgrims sailing 


North Wall – Large Scene of the Gentiles

Easu 
The Orient 
Crusaders 
Columbus 
Shadowy figures


Front Wall – Both sides entering into the American Continent

“Indian Brave” with arms outstretched 
Zion in the Nexus – grid of Manti City 




Celestial room connected to a sealing room that once served as the Holy of Holies. 
Spiral Staircases and Assembly room 


Waterproofing the walls and foundation of the building was the priority of the renovation 

Water from the hillside had been seeping into the walls and into the sealing rooms. 
Emily (H)utt thinks that not a lot changed from the inside of the temple




Urdaneta Philippines Temple

Media Day on March 12th
Open house through March 30th
Interior Photos

Golden sand granite exterior 
Elements of Asian and Spanish Design
National flower of the philippines: Sampaguita 






Temple Groundbreaking 

San Luis Potosí México

March 9th presided by Sean Douglas
One of 24 temples in Mexico
Temple will also serve members in Aguascalientes, Fresnillo, Zacatecas and León that currently travel to Mexico City or Guadalajara. 




Temple Site Announced 

Savai’i Samoa Temple

5.5-acre in Fataloa, a subarea of Salelologa village on the southeastern edge of the island of Savai’i.

This site showed up in the meetinghouse locator months ago


Single story temple of 29,630 square feet




Temple Presidents and Matrons for new Temples

San Pedro Sula Honduras Temple

From Tegucigalpa Honduras


Antofagasta Chile Temple

From Antofagasta




Local Media Coverage

Vancouver Washington Temple

Some neighbors not pleased


Modesto California Temple

Missionary couples available for visitors and cookies every wednesday for the workers. 




Kirtland temple reactions 

Mormonland interview 
Inside Out 
John C Hamer reaction 
COC zoom meeting – gospel tangents 

Forgot to mention last podcast: Nauvoo Property Map




Area News 

Church Acquires land to build a Central Africa Area Office in Nairobi 
Venezuela will be realigned to the Caribbean Area, moving from the South America Northwest Area. 

Number of stakes will nearly double in the Caribbean area.  
Only area of the church without a temple announced or under construction 




General Conference Temple Predictions 

Temple Bracket
Matt Martinich’s map

Temple Prediction Matrix


My Top Predictions 

Cincinnati Ohio – Property acquired last year in Mason on Montgomery Rd 
Flagstaff AZ
Herriman UT or Lehi UT or Spanish Fork UT
Price UT
Evanston WY
El Paso TX
Honolulu Hawaii
Santiago Dominican Republic
Sana Ana El Salvador
Florianopolis/Sao Jose Brazil
Rosario Argentina
Punta Arenas Chile
Lima Peru #3
Medellin Colombia
Kampala Uganda
Glasgow Scotland
Taichung Taiwan
Hobart Australia
Wildcard: Maracaibo Venezuela





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