| Updated: 11:05 p.m.
Ground was broken for a new “House of the Lord” in Tooele on Saturday.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced that work has officially begun on the new Deseret Peak Temple, a three-story, 70,000-square-foot structure that will be a half-hour from Salt Lake City at 2400 N. 400 West. A 20,000-square-foot meetinghouse will also be built at the site.
General authority Seventy Brook Hales presided over a groundbreaking ceremony attended by about 200 Latter-day Saint leaders and guests.
“Help us that through the atonement of our Savior, Jesus Christ, we might be prepared and worthy to enter thy sacred house to receive the blessings of exaltation available for ourselves and for our ancestors,” Hales prayed at the ceremony, according to a news release. “Please bless all that will live in this temple district that they will feel the godly power of this sacred edifice.”
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Church leaders announced over the weekend that the Manti temple will be preserved, and a new temple in nearby Ephraim will be built.
New renovation plans for the historic Manti temple will preserve its cherished murals, according to
a recent announcement from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
“We have been impressed to modify our earlier plans for the Manti, Utah temple so that the pioneer craftsmanship, artwork and character will be preserved including the painted murals loved by so many,” President Russell M. Nelson said in a virtual address to residents of the area Saturday.
Some Sanpete County residents and Church members wrote letters and
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