Temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Open House and Dedication

A public open house for the newly constructed Deseret Peak Utah Temple has been announced for Thursday, September 26, through Saturday, October 19, 2024, excluding Sundays and Saturday, October 5, for general conference. A media day will be held on Monday, September 23, followed by two days of tours for invited guests. The temple will be dedicated on Sunday, November 10, 2024. The dedicatory sessions will be broadcast to all units in the temple district.¹

Groundbreaking Ceremony

A beautiful spirit descended upon Utah's Tooele Valley this morning at the groundbreaking service for the Deseret Peak Utah Temple. Elder Brook P. Hales of the Quorum of the Seventy presided at the event. In his site dedicatory prayer, he asked: "Please bless all that will live in this temple district that they will feel the godly power of this sacred edifice." About two hundred Church members and invited guests attended at the temple site on Saturday morning under blue skies. The three-story temple will be approximately 70,000 square feet. A 20,000-square-foot meetinghouse will also be built on site in the northwestern section of Tooele. Elder Hales prayed, "Help us that through the Atonement of our Savior, Jesus Christ, we might be prepared and worthy to enter Thy sacred house to receive the blessings of exaltation available for ourselves and for our ancestors."²

Temple Rendering

On April 7, 2020, an official exterior rendering was released for the Deseret Peak Utah Temple. On April 28, 2020, a series of interior renderings were released. The three-story temple will be approximately 70,000 square feet. Plans also call for the construction of an adjacent 20,000-square-foot meetinghouse. The exterior of the temple will be clad in cast stone with copper shingles. Inspiration for the architectural details was drawn from nearby historic tabernacles. Several flowers native to the Tooele Valley will be featured in the art glass and throughout interior and exterior including cliffrose and silvery lupine.³

Temple Site

On January 19, 2021, the new name and location for the Deseret Peak Utah Temple was announced. The temple will be constructed in the community of Tooele, west of the intersection of 2400 North 400 West.⁴

Temple Announcement

Utah's twenty-first temple was announced for Tooele Valley on April 7, 2019, at the Sunday Afternoon Session of General Conference by President Russell M. Nelson. There are twelve stakes organized in the valley with stake centers located in the communities of Tooele, Stansbury Park, Grantsville, Lake Point, and Erda. In recent years, Church membership has grown steadily in the county with members driving over 30 miles to participate in temple worship at the Salt Lake Temple.⁵

Temple Facts

The Deseret Peak Utah Temple will be the twenty-third temple built in Utah and the first built in Tooele County.

Temple Design

Exterior

The Deseret Peak Utah Temple is clad in gypsum fiber reinforced concrete, fabricated by Unlimited Designs in Salt Lake City, Utah, and installed by Allens Masonry. A dolomite aggregate from the Tooele Valley is being used in the admixture.

Design motifs include salt grass and lupine flower incorporated in exterior stone, font bowl and millwork; cliff rose incorporated in millwork, rugs, decorative paint, font railing and glass art; and lupine flower incorporated in exterior stone, paint, lighting, millwork and art glass.

The temple’s exterior art glass was designed by FFKR Architects and was fabricated by Holdman Studios in Lehi, Utah. The glass features lupine, cliff rose and grasses native to the region.

The ornamental fence is a Western Fence Company aluminum tube fence painted black.

Interior

• Flooring:
  • Carpet: Bentley Mills general broadloom carpet, with carpet tiles in dressing areas
  • Rugs: Rugs International nylon rugs
• Lighting: Cast brass, glass and crystals
• Stone: Burdur Beige, Emperador Light (Spain), White Cliffs, Aquarella Macuba, Thassos White
• Millwork: African mahogany (khaya)
• Font Railings: Aluminum railing painted with LP1304 Liquapearl pearlescent coating, with glass panels and quarter-sawn khaya mahogany top rail
• Doors and Hardware: Khaya veneer with birch solids

Decorative Painting

• Walls:
  • Paint: Sherwin Williams: SW 7531 Canvas Tan, SW 7571 Casa Blanca, SW 7557 Summer White, SW 7103 Whitetail, SW 7573 Eaglet Beige, SW 7566 Westhighland White
  • Wallcovering: Seabrook / KP 50507 / Emory, MDC / Tussah / TFC1196-4165 / Sugarcane, MDC / All About Linen / BBAL17-4165 / Calming Cream, MDC / Mix This / DG1271-4165 / Free Zone, MDC / Cayman / MCY2512-4165 / Champagne, Astek / RD341 / Painted SW 7573 Eaglet Beige
• Art Glass Design: The interior art glass features lupine, cliff rose and grasses native to the region.

Fabricators and Installers

• Paint: Accent Painting (Salt Lake City, UT)
• Decorative Paint: David G. Horne (Sandy, UT)
• Decorative Lighting: Ciana Lighting (Heber, UT)
• Crystal Chandeliers and Sconces: Ciana Lighting (Heber, UT)
• Millwork: JLR Contractors (Lehi, UT); The Wood and Iron Factory (Tijuana, Mexico)
• Art Glass: Holdman Studios (Lehi, UT)
• Stone: US Superior Stone and Tile (San Leandro, CA)
• Tile: Daltile (Dallas, TX)
• Area Rugs: Rugs International (Calhoun, GA)
• Carpet: Bentley Mills (City of Industry, CA)
• Hardware: ASSA ABLOY (Murray, UT)
• Font Railings: Metals Manufacturing (West Valley City, UT); JLR Contractors (Lehi, UT)
• Mirrors: Wallis Brothers’ Framing Inc. (Nibley, UT)
• Furniture:
  • Theodore Alexander (Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam)
  • Kindel (Grand Rapids, MI)
  • Hickory Chair (Hickory, NC)
  • Pearson Furniture (Hickory, NC)
  • Hancock and Moore (Hickory, NC)
  • Keilhauer (Toronto, Canada)
  • Craftsman Upholstery (Orem, UT)
  • MTC Studio Designs (Woods Cross, UT)
  • Artistic Frame (Kannapolis, NC)
  • Ferrell Mittman (High Point, NC)
  • Jeffrey Cobabe (Salt Lake City, UT)
  • Jonathan Charles (Vietnam)
  • Johannus (Netherlands)
  • St. Timothy-Cabot Wrenn (Hickory, NC)
  • Falcon (Newport, TN)
  • Steelcase (Grand Rapids, MI)
  • Century Furniture (Hickory, NC)
  • Pottery Barn (San Francisco, CA)
  • Nemschoff Chairs (Sheboygan, WI)
  • JSI (Jasper, Indiana)
  • Gianni (Cicero, IL)
  • Friedman Brothers (Medley, FL)
  • Spec Seats (Gardena, CA)
• Ceilings: Pete King (American Fork, UT); Design West Acoustics (Springville, UT)
• Exterior Doors: Steel Encounters (Salt Lake City, UT)
• Interior Doors: Architectural Building Supply (Salt Lake City, UT), manufactured by Masonite, USA, installed by JLR Contractors (Lehi, UT)