Salt Lake Temple Renderings revealed. Compare with before and after pictures!

I am super stoked that the Salt Lake Temple is being renovated. I love the Salt Lake Temple and I was married there on August 16th of this year (2019). Everyone would ask “what temple are you getting married in?” And when I would reply “Salt Lake” they would, like clockwork, say, “Ahh in before they close it for renovations.” It became our inside joke as I would start counting after I said Salt Lake waiting for the closing comments.

The church just-released four digital renderings for the remodel and renovation of the Salt Lake Temple. And prior to today, they had released pictures of the current interior. I want to help you understand the work they are doing by sharing before and after photos. With brief explanations of the purpose of each room.

The Creation Room.

The Creation Room is the first room of the Temple Endowment. Here we learn about the creation of the world by God the Father through His Son Jesus Christ (Jehovah) and Michael (Adam).

The Garden Room.

In the Garden Room, we learn about the fall of Adam and Eve. We also learn of God’s first covenants with mankind.

The Telestial (World) Room.

The Telestial Room is symbolic of the lone and dreary waste that Adam and Eve lived after they were cast out of the Garden of Eden. It is symbolic of the world we live in.

The Terrestrial Room.

The Terrestrial Room is symbolic of earth life as disciples of Christ.

The Celestial Room.

The Celestial Room is symbolic of Heaven with God our Father. It is separated from the Terrestrial Room by a veil (death) that all of us must pass through.

Other Rooms of the Temple.

The Lower Grand Staircase. The Creation room is the doorway on the imidate left. Further down the hallway to the left is the doorway that you exit the Garden Room from (you enter the Garden from the Creation Room). And the far end is the stairs to the Terrestrial Room.

The Baptismal font in the Salt Lake Temple rests on the back of twelve oxen. Following the pattern of the Molton Sea at the Temple of Soloman (see 1 Kings 7:23-26)

The Assembly Hall in the Salt Lake Temple is used to address Temple workers or for other occasions (located on the top floor).

The Salt Lake Temple has many various sealing rooms of various sizes. In these rooms, couples are married for time and all eternity.

The Holy of Holies in the Salt Lake Temple in the early 1900s. (As printed in the book “The House of the Lord” by James E Talmage. Who included the picture with permission of the Prophet Joseph Fielding Smith) Just like in the Bible the Holy of Holies is dedicated as a place for the Lord to appear to His servants. (Seeing the Lord is referred to as receiving the Second Comforter, the Holy Ghost is the First Comforter.).

If you have enjoyed this article I invite you to read one of the other articles I’ve written about the temple. (click the picture)