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...|frame|<span style="color:#0D8ED3">The north side of the Provo City Center Temple. (Church Newsroom)]] The '''Provo City Center Temple''' is the 150th temple in operation belonging to [http://comeuntochrist.org The Church of Jesus Ch

...ers were sent to the area. In 1849, thirty-three families established Fort Utah, and in 1850, the fort—and the eventual city—were named for Etienne Pro ...ies to live in, according to statistics.[https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/provo-ranked-amongst-top-10-cities-for-best-sober-living-in-united-states-survey-

...pg|500px|thumb|<div align="left"><span style="color:#0D8ED3">The Orem Utah Temple. ©2023 by Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved.</span></div>]] ...rem, Utah. At the time of the announcement, Utah had 17 operating temples. Utah has 30 temples announced, under construction, under renovation, or in opera

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...|450px|thumb|<div align="left"><span style="color:#0D8ED3">Red Cliffs Utah Temple. ©2023 by Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved.</span></div>]] ...icated in 1877, is the [[St. George Utah Temple]] — the oldest operating temple of the Church.

...New_Provo_MTC_Building.jpg|285px|thumb|<center><span style="color:#0000FF">Provo Missionary Training Center</span></center>|right]] ...ning Center campus of the Church, teaches more than 50 languages. It ranks second among the nation’s largest on-site language schools, behind only the U.S.

...d of 120 wagons and 317 people. His company arrived in September 1847, the second group of [[pioneers]] to arrive in the Salt Lake Valley. He led other pione In Utah, Smoot briefly owned slaves, however, they were given freedom after two yea

...|450px|thumb|<center><span style="color:#0D8ED3">The Saratoga Springs Utah Temple. ©2023 by Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved.</span></center>| The '''Saratoga Springs Utah Temple''' was announced by then-Church President [[Thomas S. Monson]] on [https://

...Maeser]] (January 16,[[1828]] – February 15,[[1901]]) was a prominent [[Utah]] educator and a member of [http://comeuntochrist.org The Church of Jesus C ...Lake City: Covenant Communications, 2007) p. 62</ref> Maeser arrived in [[Utah]] Territory on September 1, 1860.

...congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000644] He was president of both Provo Commercial & Savings Bank and the Smoot Investment Company. He also served ...ing the state of Utah. Smoot was introduced to the United States Senate by Utah's other Republican U.S. Senator Thomas Kearns, a catholic who was elected i

Elder Talmage moved with his family to [[Provo, Utah]] in 1877. In Provo he studied the Normal Course at [[Brigham Young Academy]], having as one of ...almage married Mary May Booth on the June 14, [[1888]] in the [[Manti Utah Temple]]. They had a total of eight children.<ref>Daniel H. Ludlow, ed., ''Encyclo

==The Second Coming== When the MTC was built in Provo, beautiful green athletic fields were planted so the missionaries would hav

...1890. The largest and most famous is the Salt Lake Tabernacle located on [[Temple Square]]. ...5). The last tabernacle built by the Church was the [[Ogden Tabernacle|the second tabernacle to be built on what was known as Ogden's Tabernacle Square]]. Of

...urg, Idaho; and [[LDS Business College|Ensign College]] in Salt Lake City, Utah. This education system also serves hundreds of thousands in continuing educ ...rinceton-review-list][https://www.deseret.com/faith/2022/8/23/23318593/byu-utah-princeton-review-list-sober-college-education] BYU also stands alone atop P

...o was touring the Holy Land. Someone had found it and noticed it was from Utah. The person easily identified a group of BYU students because of their glo ...t lifestyle, don’t go to your doctor, and whatever you do, don’t go to Provo!”

:* Rejoice in the blessings of the temple, understand our divine destiny, and strive for exaltation. ...vice; and welfare; in addition to Sunday doctrinal discussions held on the second and fourth Sundays of each month. While each program is under the directio

[[Image:Brigham Young.jpg|200px|thumb|Brigham Young, second prophet of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, &#169; 2002 Bri [[Brigham Young]], second [[Mormon president|President]] of [[The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da

...center><span style="color:#0000FF"> [[Salt Lake Temple|Salt Lake City Utah Temple]]</span></center>|right]] ...dent Monson also said 85 percent of the Church lives within 200 miles of a temple.

...ra at Temple Square|Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square and the Orchestra at Temple Square. © 2006 by Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved.]] ...ld are going to be proud that the Tabernacle Choir is not just a Choir for Utah and Salt Lake City but it’s a Choir representing the whole world.”[http

...ration Building; and the [[Brigham Young Academy]] in Provo, Utah (now the Provo City Library). ...eneral landscape design for Temple Square. The completion of the Salt Lake Temple in 1893 signaled the end of the office of Church Architect.

...es 24/7 are Provo MTC instructors, sister missionaries at Salt Lake City's Temple Square, and others in Mexico City and the Philippines.[https://www.deseret. :By early 2013, six missions in Utah and Arizona began pilot programs of not only using online platforms for pro

...eland2.jpg|300px|thumb|right|frame|The Icelandic Memorial in Spanish Fork, Utah]] ...he rest of the Latter-day Saints. They originally settled in Spanish Fork, Utah, the oldest continuous Icelandic settlement in North America.

...ers]], and taking all who would travel, plus his own families, he made the second journey. ...e settlement was abandoned at great financial loss with the onset of the [[Utah War]] in 1857.

...time, talents, and resources to build up the kingdom and prepare for the [[Second Coming]] of Christ. ...kingdom of God--to further the missionary effort and the genealogical and temple work; to raise our children up as fruitful servants unto the Lord; to bless

...edia of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints'' (Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret Book and A. Jenson Historical Co., 1901–1936) '''1''':121.</ref> ...d K. Garr, [[Donald Q. Cannon]], and [[Richard O. Cowan]] (Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret Book, 2000) pp. 1379–1380.</ref>

...ed States Congress because he valued the covenants he made in the [[Temple|temple]] more than the desires of society. ...eral reappearances, he finally disappeared completely."<ref> University of Utah Library, B.H.Roberts Papers.</ref> Ann Dustin was granted a divorce in 1884

...rated to the United States with his mother and brother. They made it to [[Utah]] Territory in mid-November.<ref>Parrish. ''Widtsoe''. p. 28</ref> Widtsoe ...p. v</ref> He served as the head of the agricultural experiment station at Utah State Agricultural College. He married Leah Dunford, a granddaughter of Br

...in Clay'' when he was twelve years old and it won first prize at the 1909 Utah State Fair, but the judge refused to award him the medal, explaining that t ..., and the Grand Salon in Paris. He and his father were forced to return to Utah in 1914 with the outbreak of World War I.

...a_peru_mormon_temple.jpg|thumb|250px|alt=Lima Peru Mormon Temple|Lima Peru Temple © Intellectual Reserve]] ...e, so many people in the world have seen the outside of a Latter-day Saint temple. Temples are designed and dedicated by the power of the [[Priesthood Author

...er of the Church in Utah County and the first president of the [[Salt Lake Temple]] who was not an apostle. ...uncil of the Utah Stake (named such because at that time it took in all of Utah County).

[[Image:Laie-Hawaii-Temple1.jpg|right|450px|thumb|alt=Laie Hawaii Mormon Temple|frame|<span style="color:#0D8ED3"> Laie Hawaii Temple]]

...as a writer, editor, and advocate for women’s rights and achievements in Utah. She founded the ''Young Woman’s Journal'', which eventually became the o Gates was the second daughter of [[Brigham Young]] and his wife Lucy Bigelow Young. She entered

Belle was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, to John Gibson Smith and Hester Sims Smith on 8 October 1895, the youngest ...ed her talents to direct social service programs for the Relief Society in Utah, Arizona, and Nevada. Among the services Belle oversaw were programs for u

...ritus Professor of Religious Studies at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. Dr. Holzapfel taught classes in ancient and modern scripture—including t Richard and Jeni currently reside in Springville, Utah. They have five adult children, Nathan, Zachary, Zanna, Marin, and Bailey.

..., and moved to Gilbert, Arizona, when she was eight. She resided in Provo, Utah, when she was a student at [[Brigham Young University]] to study filmmaking In 2013 Lindsey was a guest artist performing with the [[Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square]] and at the Church's [[Conference Center]] at in Salt Lake City for

...d as members of the [[Quorum of the Twelve Apostles]] on April 7, 1984. As second in seniority, Oaks would be designated [[President of the Quorum of the Twe Dallin H. Oaks was born in Provo, Utah, on August 12, 1932. His father died of tuberculosis when he was only eight

...e Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]. Elder Jensen served in the Second Quorum of the Seventy until April 1, 1995, when he was sustained to the Fir ...Mapleton, Utah. He married Lona Lee Child on 1 November 1963 in the Manti Temple. They had six children.

...also earned her master’s degree at BYU and her PhD at the University of Utah, where she specialized in Shakespeare. She presented papers on Shakespeare ...on Joseph Smith, Jr., were set to music by Murray Boren and performed on [[Temple Square]].

...f Willard Davis Hawkins and Wilma Stolworthy Hawkins. He grew up in Provo, Utah. He served as a radio operator in the Army Air Corps, stationed in the Paci ...arl married his high school sweetheart, Nelma Jean Jones, in the Salt Lake Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

...arned a bachelor’s degree in elementary education from the University of Utah and a master’s degree in curriculum development from [[Brigham Young Univ ...lso wrote and instructed in a series of television programs created by the Utah Education Network.

...ist.org The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]. He served as the second counselor to Bishop [[Edward Partridge]] from 1837 to 1840 when he was rele ...Temple]] as a stonemason and carpenter. Later he helped build the [[Nauvoo Temple]]. He was ordained a high priest by Edward Partridge and [[Isaac Morley]].

...The Art of James Christensen'', was printed in 1994 to great acclaim. His second, ''Voyage of the Basset'' (with Renwick St. James and Alan Dean Foster (Art ...t Brigham Young University in the late 1990s. Christensen resided in Orem, Utah. Two daughters, [[Cassandra Barney]] and [[Emily McPhie]], are also profess

...of the [[Presidency of the Seventy]] and as president of the [[Provo Utah Temple]]. ...i, Utah. He earned a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Utah and a doctorate in economics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He

...ure. His skills also prompted Church officials to ask him to translate the temple ceremony into Portuguese—a task he considered the most important teaching ...ne.byu.edu/article/a-lingering-influence/] He was honored in 1959 with the second [[Karl G. Maeser]] Distinguished Teaching Award.

...nd hauled converts to the church, hauled freight for building the [[Nauvoo Temple]], and preached from the deck of his ship. ...ttled in [[Manti, Utah|Manti]] and was elected mayor in 1851. He began his second mission to Wales, this time without his family, in 1852. He served until 18

...etroit_michigan_lds_temple.jpg|300px|right|alt=The Detroit Michigan Mormon Temple]] ...there were 42,319 church members in the state, and the [[Detroit Michigan Temple]], which was dedicated in 1999.

...September, my family stayed at our cabin at Vivian Park in Provo Canyon in Utah. ...kept the matches, and we needed to clear that field. Without so much as a second thought, I ran to our cabin and grabbed a few matchsticks, making certain n

She was born on September 13, 1904, in Provo, Utah. She suffered from hypoglycemia as a child and consequently spent much time ...: her first marriage was annulled soon after she returned from Africa. Her second marriage lasted from 1951 until his death in 1957; her third from 1959 unti

...f the Utah Provo Mission. He served as president of the [[Bern Switzerland Temple]] from 2005 to 2008. ...pon finishing his Air Force tour of duty in 1960 at Hill Air Force Base in Utah, he practiced law for six years in Phoenix, Arizona. He then worked in Midl

...on from National Louis University in Illinois. She has taught English as a second language and has also worked as a nurse's aid. ...ell as the Primary, and has been an early-morning [[Seminary]] teacher and temple worker. In 2018, Sister Bingham conducted the General Women’s Session of

...ce in July 2024. In the April 2024 general conference, he was sustained as second counselor in the [[Sunday School]] General Presidency, effective August 1, ...Heather Reid was watching when President Russell M. Nelson announced a new temple for Pago Pago, American Samoa.

...he second president of the Church's [[Merida Mexico Temple|Mérida México Temple]]<ref>[http://www.ldschurchnews.com/articles/45188/Yucatan-pioneers-led-way ...egree from [[Brigham Young University]] (BYU), and has resided in [[Provo, Utah]] at various times.