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The Oquirrh Mountain Utah Temple is a temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints located in South Jordan, Utah, a suburb of Salt Lake City. South Jordan was the first city in the world to have two temples (it also has the Jordan River Temple). The temple was the fourth in the Salt Lake Valley and the 13th in the state of Utah.
The Oquirrh Mountain Utah Temple serves approximately 83,000 Latter-day Saints living in the western Salt Lake Valley. The building is faced with light beige granite quarried and milled in China.
History
The Oquirrh Mountain Utah Temple was built on a bluff on the edge of the Daybreak Community; the property was donated to the church by Kennecott Land, a portion of a company that mines copper and precious minerals from the Oquirrh Mountains, just a few miles west of the temple. The edifice features a single stone spire 193 feet (59 m) high, topped by a 9-foot (2.7 m) statue of the angel Moroni. Ground was broken for construction on December 16, 2006. At the groundbreaking it was announced the structure would be named the "Oquirrh Mountain Utah Temple"; it had previously been known as the "South Jordan Utah Temple".
On June 13, 2009, the spire was struck by lightning during a thunderstorm. The statue of the Angel Moroni was tarnished, and was replaced on August 11, 2009.
Prior to dedicatory services that took place on August 21 to 23, 2009, the public was invited to tour the new temple during an open house from June 1, 2009, to August 1, 2009.
In 2020, like all the church's other temples, the Oquirrh Mountain Utah Temple was closed in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
See also
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah
Comparison of temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
List of temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
List of temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by geographic region
Temple architecture (Latter-day Saints)
References
Additional reading
"Groundbreaking Held for Oquirrh Mountain Utah Temple". Newsroom. LDS Church. December 16, 2006. Archived from the original on January 4, 2007. Retrieved December 19, 2006.
Page, Jared; Moore, Carrie (December 1, 2006). "S. Jordan planners OK temple". Deseret Morning News. Archived from the original on September 18, 2012. Retrieved August 18, 2019.
External links
Media related to Oquirrh Mountain Utah Temple at Wikimedia Commons
Oquirrh Mountain Utah Temple Official site
Oquirrh Mountain Utah Temple at ChurchofJesusChristTemples.org