1275. Update on the Renovation of the Salt Lake Temple! from Meridian Magazine
Search Newsroom Archive Resources Events Contact Headquarters (USA) - English 25 September 2020 - Salt Lake City News Story A Window Into Past, Present and Self: Salt Lake Temple Renovation Enters the Foundation-Strengthening Phase Sealing addition, north entrance, and underground facilities removed to make way for extensive excavation People passing through Main Street Plaza on Temple Square can now look through the construction project fence windows and see some 170 years into the past. The extensive renovation of the Salt Lake Temple, now in its ninth month, has laid bare much of the foundation stone first set by pioneering Latter-day Saints when the temple was in its infancy in 1853. “It’s special to see those stones. It makes me think of the times in which the stones were laid, the resources that the Saints had during those times and the struggles they were going through,” says Andy Kirby, director of historic temple renovations for the Church. “Compare it to