The Washington County Utah Temple, which was announced in October 2018 by Church President Russell M. Nelson, will be build on a 14-acre site located northeast of 3000 East 1580 South in St. George, Utah. Plans call for the three-story temple of approximately 90,00 square feet. This will be the city's second temple. The St. George Utah Temple, which was dedicated in 1877, closed November 4, 2019 for an extensive renovation and is expected to reopen sometime in 2022.
We are excited to see what this new temple will look like. And it has been so interesting to watch them renovation happening on our other temple. We have seen the back taken off to expose some of the original area of the temple that had been built over back in the 70's. In the process you have been able to see some of the red rock underlying the white that has covered up the red sandstone that the temple is built from. We have a little bit of a connection because Paul did work on the Sons of Utah Pioneers monuments for the red stone quarry where they got the rock for the temple all those years ago. We just went and hiked that little trail a few days ago. We have also hike the black basalt base rock quarry many times and Paul has done presentations to show how they cut the rock with shims and wedges.
We will be excited to have both of these temples open soon. We have enjoyed going to the Cedar City Temple while we are waiting. Here's what St. George Temple is going to look like when it's done!
And here it is the first time they were working on it and then when they got it done!
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