The land for the Los Angeles California Temple was purchased from Harold Lloyd Motion Picture Company on March 23, 1937. (The other six temples are the Manti Utah Temple, the Salt Lake Temple, the Laie Hawaii Temple, the Cardston Alberta Temple, the Idaho Falls Idaho Temple, and the Nauvoo Illinois Temple.) The Los Angeles California Temple is one of only seven temples where patrons progress through four ordinance rooms before passing into the Celestial Room.
The corner pillars in the Logan Utah Temple Celestial Room portray a heavenly landscape, too.)
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(Only two other temples feature full Celestial Room murals: the Idaho Falls Idaho Temple and the Hamilton New Zealand Temple. The Los Angeles California Temple features beautiful hand-painted murals on the walls of its progressive-style ordinance rooms: Creation Room, Garden Room, World Room, Terrestrial Room (no murals), and Celestial Room. The Los Angeles California Temple was the last temple designed for live-acting presentation of the endowment. (The Salt Lake Temple later reclaimed the title with its additions and annexations.) The spacious assembly room seats about 2,000 and features three pulpits on each end.Īt the time of its construction, the Los Angeles California Temple was the largest temple of the Church. The Los Angeles California Temple was the first temple to include a priesthood assembly room and angel Moroni statue following the Salt Lake Temple. The Los Angeles California Temple was the first temple built in California. The temple grounds are all aglow at Christmastime when thousands of multi-colored lights decorate the numerous trees and features. North of the temple, is a public visitors' center that showcases a representation of Thorvaldsen's Christus statue and also houses the popular Los Angeles Family History Library. Two fountains, a large reflection pool, and several family-themed statues further beautify the grounds. The spacious grounds are filled with a dazzling array of foliage including-to name a few-Canary Island Pine trees, several varieties of palm trees, Bird of Paradise trees, olive trees, and rare Chinese Ginkgo trees. The 257-foot high Los Angeles California Temple looms over famous Santa Monica Boulevard in Westwood. Ordinance Rooms: Four ordinance rooms (four-stage progressive) and ten sealing. The wainscot around the exterior is Rockville granite from Minnesota. McKayĮxterior Finish: Covered with 146,000 square feet of Mo-Sai stone facing, a mixture of crushed quartz and white Portland cement quarried in Utah and Nevada. Public Open House: 19 December 1955–18 February 1956ĭedication: 11–14 March 1956 by David O. Groundbreaking and Site Dedication: 22 September 1951 by David O.
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