885 Temple Ticker – 14 New Statues at Temple Square and Number 13 Might Kill You

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• Temple Dedication Announced
  • Nairobi Kenya Temple
    • Open House: April 17th to May 3, 2025, Media day on April 14th
    • Dedication: May 18, 2025 presided by Ulises Soares
    • Christus statue recently installed on temple grounds.
• Temple Renderings Released – 37 released in 2024
  • Cuernavaca Mexico Temple
    • Cream Color, Spanish Mission Style, curvy lines, terracotta cupula, corinthian columns
  • Toluca Mexico Temple
    • Cream color, Spanish colonial style: stately design, sharp lines, doric columns
  • Cincinnati Ohio Temple
    • Sandstone color, English Colonial Style
  • Des Moines Iowa Temple
    • Sandstone color, tall spire, Romanesque style?
  • Missoula Montana Temple
    • White color, brown cupula, doric columns
  • Tacoma Washington Temple
    • Two story-gray color with bronze triangular steeple
  • Brussels Belgium Temple
    • 7+ Story built from existing building
    • Includes a meetinghouse and arrival facilities
    • 1970s Modern design with wishbone columns a lot of glass
    • slender gold spire mostly on side of building
    • Inspiration from the WTC Twin towers? Or
    • Rooftop Garden!
    • 12 congregations in Belgium with 2 stakes, close for the Lille France Stake as well.
  • Temple Design Tracker SpreadSheet
    • 10 different floor plans in use with a handful of unique designs
    • Number of stakes correlates with the size of the building
• Construction Updates
  • Salt Lake Temple
    • Vertical Coring Completed
      • Drilled 46 holes in the 6 towers from top to the base isolator foundation with diamond drill bits. Cables installed and tightened to attach walls to the foundation
      • Machine shop trailer installed on the top of the temple
    • North Addition progressing
      • Picture of sealing room entrance
    • 14 New Statues being installed on temple square
      • 1 First Vision
      • 2 Come Follow Me
      • Others will follow in 2025 and 2026
  • Provo Rock Canyon Temple
    • Foundations for Two Baptistries
  • Stockholm Sweden Temple
    • Site Leveling work to get rid of slope on site
  • San Diego Temple
    • Landscaping work progressing
    • Temple closed 18 months ago for an 18 month renovation
  • Modesto California Temple
    • Highest Steel beam installed on top of building
  • Wichita Kansas Temple
    • Modules being Installed in snowy weather
  • Port Vila Vanuatu
    • Modules installation after earthquake
  • Los Angeles California Temple
    • Pictures with fires burning circulating the socials
  • Queen Creek Arizona Temple
    • Possible Site location?
      • News story taken since taken down
      • Reported church ownership of a 4 acre site on Riggs road across from the Fat Cats.
      • More likely the site of a future meetinghouse
  • Bakersfield California Temple
    • Environmental review beings
    • Neighborhood group still unhappy about steeple
      • Pointed out examples of Yorba Linda and Fairview, Texas temples getting a shorter steeple.
  • Cody Wyoming Temple
    • Modules being installed, temple contractor responsive
    • $41 million valuation on city permits
  • Auckland New Zealand Temple
    • What is the massive fortress in South Auckland?
    • $36.9 Million government evaluation
• Bonus
  • 2024 Units Changes
    • +59 Stakes Created (17 in Utah)
    • -15 Stakes Discontinued (11 in Utah)
    • 28 Districts Created
    • -14 Districts Discontinued

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