Situated in Sanpete County, the Manti temple nonetheless stands as one of many nice Latter-day Saint pioneer temples Scott G Winterton, Deseret Information
Standing on the southeast nook of the Manti Utah Temple web site, Brigham Younger instructed Warren S. Snow, “Right here is the spot the place the Prophet Moroni stood and devoted this piece of land for a temple web site, and that's why the placement is made right here, and we will’t transfer it from this spot.”
How was the temple constructed?
The Manti temple was the fifth temple constructed by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. William H. Folsom, architect of the Salt Lake Tabernacle, designed the Manti temple, in response to the Ensign journal. Whereas the positioning was introduced on June 25, 1875, and devoted on April 25, 1877, President Wilford Woodruff devoted the temple itself in a non-public ceremony on Might 17, 1888.
In line with the Ensign, this temple incorporates murals from C.C.A. Christensen, Minerva Teichert, John Hafen, J.B. Fairbanks and Dan Weggeland.
This temple has a wealthy historical past. Throughout the first winter within the Sanpete Valley, Mormon pioneers skilled excessive chilly and moved to “temple hill” to courageous the climate. Glen R. Stubbs confirmed that this similar hill was the place they constructed the temple — as predicted by Elder Heber C. Kimball, an early member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. Though Kimball’s visions of the temple occurred whereas the climate led the Saints to worry, crops prospered within the years that they have been setting up the temple.
George Lambert reported within the Deseret Night Information in 1877 that Sanpete and Sevier counties have been anticipating an abundance of grain, particularly in comparison with their first few laborious years. However even when the winter temperatures dropped under zero levels, a small group of males continued to quarry and haul stone for the temple.
When was the temple devoted?
After 11 years of adverse work, the temple was devoted. In his dedicatory prayer, President Woodruff mentioned, “Heavenly Father, Thou hast seen the labors of Thy Saints within the constructing of this Home. Their motives and their exertions are all identified to Thee. The hearts of the kids of males and each thought thereof are open to Thy sight. Thy individuals have sought to do Thy will in rearing and adorning this nice construction.”
Practically a century after this preliminary dedication, President Gordon B. Hinckley rededicated the temple on June 14, 1985. In his remarks earlier than the prayer, President Hinckley mentioned, “I've been on the earth’s nice buildings and in none of those have I had the sensation I get in coming to those pioneer homes of God.”
The Manti Utah Temple is at present present process renovations.