| 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.”