The Beehive State is home to 32 of the global faith’s 382 existing or planned temples.
(The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) An artistic rendering of the exterior of the West Jordan Temple.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints plans to build its West Jordan Temple in the global faith’s modern style, according to an exterior rendering released Monday.
The single-spired, multistory, 85,000-square-foot building will sit on about 16 acres in the Oquirrh foothills on the far west side of the Salt Lake Valley. A new meetinghouse will also be built on the site at approximately 7148 South and west of State Road 111.
Church President Russell M. Nelson announced plans for the edifice at the April 2024 General Conference along with another suburban temple in Lehi. A rendering of the Utah County building, with the same square footage, showed it would have wings on either side of its main entrance. The West Jordan Temple appears to be longer and narrower.
(The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) An exterior rendering of Utah’s Lehi Temple.
The edifice will be the first Latter-day Saint temple for the growing suburb and the fourth west of Interstate 15 in the Salt Lake Valley, joining two buildings in South Jordan and one in Taylorsville.
Nelson announced another new temple for the worldwide faith’s home state this month. The Spanish Fork Temple will be the church’s 32nd planned or existing such edifice in Utah. There are 382 temples operating or in the works around the globe.
Devout Latter-day Saints — whom church leaders deem worthy — go to temples to practice the faith’s holiest rituals such as eternal marriage.