The open house has been announced for the Gila Valley Arizona Temple, which was announced in General Conference just two years ago. The open house will start on Friday, April 23rd, and run through Saturday, May 15th. The dedication will take place on Sunday, May 23rd, 2010.
Val Brinkerhoff is an associate professor of photography in BYU’s Visual Arts Department, and over the last decade has focused his studies on sacred architecture, particularly of temples. He’s authored or co-authored a number of books, the three most recent being about finding the meaning of symbolism in sacred architecture. Yesterday he gave a lecture [...]
Not to be outdone by yesterday’s 360° Panoramas of Temple Square, Dr. Hamblin has produced probably the highest resolution photograph of the Salt Lake Temple ever made. It is 0.41 gigapixels, which amounts to 410 megapixels. Compared with most modern digital cameras which are capable of 2-8 megapixels, this is a super high resolution image. [...]
Have you ever wondered what goes into the design of new temples? How much is planned ahead of time? To what extent do they know what the temple will look like when it is finished? What level of detail is thought about even before construction begins? I have thought those things many times before, and [...]
There is an article this morning in the Mormon Times about the symbolism in the architecture of the Salt Lake Temple. It is written by Lynn Arave who used as a reference Dean R. Zimmerman’s article in the New Era entitled “The Salt Lake Temple” from June 1978. The article cites a brief description and [...]
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