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After a four-year hiatus, the Mesa Arizona Latter Day Saints Temple Christmas lights returned last year, so I decided to visit the temple grounds (11/27/2022) while in Arizona during the Thanksgiving weekend. Favorite, share and comment!
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After a four-year hiatus, the Mesa Arizona Latter Day Saints Temple Christmas lights returned last year, so I decided to visit the temple grounds (11/27/2022) while in Arizona during the Thanksgiving weekend. Favorite, share and comment!
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The Gilgal Sculpture Garden is a small public city park located in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. The park, which is filled with unusual symbolic statuary associated with Mormonism, notably to the Sphinx with Joseph Smith's head, was a labor of love designed and created by LDS businessman Thomas Battersby Child, Jr. (1888-1963) in his spare time. The park contains 12 original sculptures and over 70 stones engraved with scriptures, poems and literary texts. Gilgal Sculpture Garden is the only designated "visionary art environment" in the state of Utah.
Another view of the temple, showing the enormity of the structure. Visitors are not allowed in the temple itself.
Photographic view of an unbeliever
Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Zollikofen (Bern Switzerland Temple, built in 1955)
Architect: Edward O. Anderson (1891-1977)
Canton Bern, Switzerland 14.09.2015
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bern_Switzerland_Temple
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5za5PH7zT4
Der Klang der Posaune
Fotografische Betrachtung eines Ungläubigen
Tempel der Kirche Jesu Christi der Heiligen der Letzten Tage in Zollikofen (Bern-Termpel, Baujahr 1955)
Architekt: Edward O. Anderson (1891-1977)
Kanton Bern, Schweiz 14.09.2015
Salt Lake Temple on Temple Square in Salt Lake City, Utah. I took this picture early in the morning yesterday for friend who needed it for a brochure. There was construction going on all over the Square, and they were already putting up zillions of Christmas tree lights in the two big Horse chestnut you see in front of the temple (I had to retouch out the lift cranes)!
Background info on the Temple: The Salt Lake Temple is the largest (of more than 120 around the world) and best-known temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It is the sixth temple built by the church overall, and the fourth operating temple built since the Mormon exodus from Nauvoo, Illinois. Construction of the Salt Lake Temple began in 1853, and the capstone was laid on April 6, 1892. Dedication of the temple was on April 6, 1893, exactly forty years after the cornerstone was laid. The stone used for the temple is quartz monzonite, which has the appearance of granite. The granite came from Little Cottonwood Canyon, located twenty miles (32 km) southeast of the temple site. Oxen transported the granite initially, but as the Transcontinental Railroad neared completion in 1869 the remaining stones were carried by rail at a much faster rate.
Reflections in the glass wall of Welcome Center created a unique imagery which I captured.
Jesus Christ (Creator of Sun, Moon and Heavens)
In the Book of Mormon, about the year 124 B.C. an angel speaks to the Nephite king Benjamin, "And he shall be called Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the Father of heaven and earth, the Creator of all things from the beginning; and his mother shall be called Mary."[9] Regarded as the Creator of the earth, sun, moon, and stars etc. he is at times referred to as the father of heaven and earth. This is one sense in which he shares the title "Father" with his father. The church also teaches that those who accept Christ and are baptized are symbolically born again and become the children of Christ.[32] The church teaches that Jesus Christ is central to his father's plan of happiness and emphasizes that Christ's divinity enabled him to take upon himself the penalty for sin and to endure the consequential suffering in Gethsemane and on the cross that paid for the sins of humanity. This Atonement however is also believed to cover not only sin, but all pain, suffering, heart ache, or hardship experienced in this life.[33]. Latter-day Saints believe that Jesus' status as the son of a mortal woman gave him the ability to suffer temptations and experience physical death; while his status as the Son of God gave him the power to lay down and take up his life again at will. The church also believes in the physical resurrection of Jesus' body: that his physical body and spirit body were reunited, never again to be separated. Because of its emphasis on Jesus' resurrection and his status as the living head of the church, the church does not use the symbol of the Christian cross except on the uniforms of military chaplains. Instead, the church tends to focus on the belief that Jesus overcame suffering and death and that he lives today.
The Portland Oregon Mormon Temple sits on 7 acres of lush green land in Lake Oswego, Oregon. It is indeed a spectacular sight with its six white spires reaching toward the sky. The white marble exterior is accented with green marble trim and topped with a green slate roof. This is one of the larger temples with 65,000 square feet. Each Mormon temple that is built portrays features both inside and out which are symbolic of the true meaning that temples hold. The three east spires on the temple represent the Melchezidek Priesthood and the three west spires represent the Aaronic Priesthood; the sun, moon and earth represent the varying degrees of glory.
When the Temple was completed, there seemed to be a change of attitude in the community. Hearts were softened as almost three hundred thousand people attended the open house.
On August 19, 1989, the Portland Oregon Mormon Temple was dedicated by then prophet, President Ezra Taft Benson. He pronounced that the Temple is, “a place of peace and holiness, a refuge from [the] storms of life…the Temple is going to have a great mission, and some day you will find it.”
Source: Mormon Temple Portland Oregon
After a four-year hiatus, the Mesa Arizona Latter Day Saints Temple Christmas lights returned last year, so I decided to visit the temple grounds (11/27/2022) while in Arizona during the Thanksgiving weekend. Favorite, share and comment!
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Lehi was a Hebrew prophet (and likely a merchant as well) and contemporary of Jeremiah. Following a dream from God, Lehi took his family to the wilderness and eventually made his way with them to the Promised Land somewhere in the Western Hemisphere.
The prophet Lehi is referred to several times as having visions and prophecies, usually centered on the destruction of Jerusalem, the coming Messiah, and his own descendants. He was obviously close to his Father in Heaven and earned His trust, at least sufficient to be saved from Jerusalem’s destruction in order to begin a new branch of God’s chosen people in a faraway country where they could preserve God’s truth and covenants.
Source: Modern Prophets
The Gilbert Arizona temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is a very impressive structure and a local architectural landmark. It stands at 195 feet tall and encompasses over 85,000 square feet. It was built over a period of three years and was opened in 2014.
The evening I photographed this it was pretty cold for Arizona standards, but I would take that any day over 100 degrees in the sun!
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Before leaving Kensington, we decided to drive up to the LDS Temple for a close up view. We did not go into the visitor center (another trip for sure) but did a walk around the beautiful grounds. We also want to go back when the grounds are lit up for Christmas.