Brigham City Utah Temple

That a new Mormon temple would be built in Brigham City, Utah, was announced by President and Prophet Thomas S. Monson at the Saturday morning session of the 179th General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, on October 3, 2009.

The temple was built on the property at 250 S. Main St., directly west of and across the street from the church’s Brigham City Tabernacle at 251 S. Main. It is the 14th Mormon temple in Utah. Two more temples have been announced for Utah -- the Payson Utah Temple, and the Provo Center Temple, which will bring the number to 16.

The city block — known to locals as Central Square — once was home to Brigham City’s Central Elementary School. After the school was razed, a professional plaza-type development was projected for the property. A sign on Central Square announced the property had been sold.

The block is bordered in both directions along Main Street by retail businesses and to the west by private residences. The Box Elder Tabernacle, completed in 1890, was gutted by fire in February 1896 and rebuilt and rededicated a year later. It was closed in 1986 for major restoration and reopened and rededicated in April 1987.

With its steeple being one of the community’s most visible landmarks for miles, the tabernacle is still used for LDS conferences, concerts and other community meetings. It was included on the National Register of Historical Places in 1971 — one of the state’s first such designated sites.

A groundbreaking ceremony was announced for July 31, 2010, at 9:00 a.m. The public was invited to attend. The event was broadcast to stake centers in the temple district.

Patterned after classic designs found at the Logan, Manti and Salt Lake Mormon temples, the Brigham City temple has a limestone exterior and faces east toward the tabernacle. The temple has two spires. The angel Moroni statue atop one of the spires reaches several feet higher than the highest point of the tabernacle. The temple has four floors and occupies approximately 36,000 square feet. Parking consists of 123 surface stalls and 130 underground stalls. The two-tiered parking structure enables the temple and parking to fit on 3 acres of ground. Fencing surrounds the temple grounds, which includes a water fountain and fruit trees. [1]

Updates

The Brigham City Utah Temple was announced to be open for public tours during a special temple open house from Aug. 18 through Sept. 15. Open house tours are never conducted on Sundays or on Sept. 8.

Tickets for the open house became available beginning July 30, 2012, at www.BrighamCityMormonTemple.org.

After the open house ends, the temple will be formally dedicated in three sessions (broadcast by closed circuit television to local congregations) on September 23, 2012. There will be a cultural celebration featuring music, song, and dance performed by local Latter-day Saints the day before the dedication. Once the Brigham City Utah Temple is dedicated, it will be open to members of the church who have been recommended by their ecclesiastical leaders. The temple district includes some 40,000 Latter-day Saints living in 13 stakes of the Church of Jesus Christ in northern Utah and southeastern Idaho. [2]