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‘Where heaven and earth intersect’: Tooele Valley Latter-day Saints break ground for Deseret Peak Utah Temple
See photos of the groundbreaking and illustrations of the interior and exterior of the temple to be built in Tooele, Utah
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Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News
With seagulls calling in the spring sky and a majestic backdrop that included running horses and all 11,000 feet of snow-capped Deseret Peak itself, church members and leaders also turned the final page on a year that included a decision to move the planned temple to Tooele from the original site in Erda, a seven-minute drive away.
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TOOELE Tooele Valley residents turned more than soil Saturday as they ceremoniously broke ground for construction of the Deseret Peak Utah Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Tooele, Utah.
With seagulls calling in the spring sky and a majestic backdrop that included running horses and all 11,000 feet of snow-capped Deseret Peak itself, church members and leaders also turned the final page on a year that included a decision to move the planned temple to Tooele from the original site in Erda, a seven-minute drive away.
How a tiny Utah community fought off an LDS Church housing project and lost a temple
Erda residents balked at plans for a high-density development, and the faith ended up relocating and renaming a planned temple to neighboring Tooele.
(Image courtesy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) An artist s rendering of the exterior of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to-be-constructed Deseret Peak Temple. It was originally going to be built in Erda. It has since been shifted to neighboring Tooele City.
| Feb. 28, 2021, 1:00 p.m.
Erda • It seemed like a fairly typical development dispute between a big-time landowner and existing neighbors over high-density housing in a corner of Utah seeing lots of growing pains these days.
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