Visiting the Provo City Center Temple

My wife and I had the opportunity, tonight, to tour the new Provo City Center Temple prior its fully-public pre-dedication open house.  The building is magnificently well done.  A beautiful homage to the people who built the original tabernacle in the nineteenth century.

By all means, if you’re in the area, go.

(For free tickets, go to this site.)

And you might enjoy looking at this item on “Mormon Newsroom,” which includes both the Church’s seven-minute video about the new temple, going back to the fire that destroyed the tabernacle and including interior shots of the elegant sanctuary that has replaced it, and a one-minute set of time-lapse photographs showing the remarkable construction process that created a temple from the ruins of a charred tabernacle.  (I still marvel at the sight of the exterior walls of the building suspended two stories in the air by what seemed a structure of pick-up sticks.)