3D Latter-day Temples – Facts, Models, and Videos of Temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

This site is the (future) home of 3D models of the Temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. These models are created by Brian Olson and are not official videos or models of the Church.

Currently, I am in the process of migrating this site from its current home, 3dtemples.photogent.com. As such, this site is incomplete and heavily under development.

This site will contain a page for each Temple. Each Page will contain Videos, facts about my models, and collected facts about the Temple. The models and the site are both in progress, so check back often!

“To accomplish this work there will have to be not only one temple, but thousands of them, and thousands and tens of thousands of men and women will go into those temples and officiate for people who have lived as far back as the Lord shall reveal.” — Brigham Young, June 22, 1856

Currently, I have two ways you can browse the information on this site:

Temples Chronologically

This link will take you to a page where you can browse and select from Latter-day Temples in a menu that is arranged Chronologically by dedication date.

Temples Alphabetically

This link will take you to a page where you can browse and select from Latter-day Temples in a menu that is arranged Alphabetically.

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Projects

Know Your Moroni

A free to read and free to download e-book about the history, usage and variations of the Angel Moroni Statues in use on many of the Latter-day Temples. (Last Updated 2021)

Learn More and Download

Moroni Faces East

An attempt to show the direction each Angel Moroni Statue in use on Each Temple currently faces. (Last updated 2017)

Read and Download

Holiness To The Lord

An infographic featuring each temple, chronologically, with it’s Inscription. (Last updated 2019)

Read and Download

I Love to See the Temple

A series of Infographics designed to let you compare temples visual ways you have never been able to before

Read and Download

Temple Construction Timeline

An infographic showing temple timelines from announcement to dedication, along with renovations. (Last Updated 2018)

Read and Download

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Photography

All of this, the photography and the 3d models, started in December of 1997 as I was driving up state street in Utah county. I had just crested the hill that drops down from Orem to Lindon. I saw ahead of me a dark overcast valley with a bright pillar of light shining on the Mount Timpanogos Utah Temple. I was struck with the scene as I drove the rest of the way home. So much so, that when I got home I grabbed my cheap point and shoot camera, drove back to the spot, and tried to capture the scene. The lighting had changed, but it was still kind of there. I then drove to the temple, stopping on the way to get a couple of other shots.

I was working at a store with a photo center at the time, and I developed the film a couple of days later. In retrospect, the photos were terrible.

But I was in a bad place in my life back then. A bad job, a bad relationship, and I needed something to grab onto. So I picked temple photography as my anchor.

As I write this now, it has been 26 years, 93 temples, and 47,000+ photographs.

Browse the Photos

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This Day in History

All events (age) are listed according to Mountain Standard Time (USA).

Yesterday

Date	Age	Type	Event
1846-05-01	178	Dedication	Nauvoo, dedicated by Orson Hyde (Apostle)
1976-05-01	48	Remodel Commencement	Laie Hawaii
1983-05-01	41	Capstone: Angel Moroni	Apia Samoa, Angel Moroni placed on
1984-05-01	40	Open House Begins	Boise Idaho
1993-05-01	31	Capstone: Angel Moroni	Angel Moroni placed upon the Orlando Florida Temple
1998-05-01	26	Groundbreaking	Campinas Brazil, by James E. Faust (2nd Counselor)
2011-05-01	13	Rededicated	Atlanta Georgia Temple rededicated
2011-05-01	13	Rededicated	Atlanta Georgia Temple rededicated
2021-05-01	3	Announcement	Ephriam Utah, by Russell M. Nelson (President)
2021-05-01	3	Renovation Plans Revised	Manti Utah, Restoration, not remodel
2023-05-01	1	Location Announced	Kumasi Ghana
2023-05-01	1	Render Released	Oslo Norway
2023-05-01	1	Location Announced	Oslo Norway
2023-05-01	1	Remodel Announced	Toronto Ontario

Today

Date	Age	Type	Event
1978-05-02	46	Open House Begins	Laie Hawaii
1992-05-02	32	Groundbreaking	Bountiful Utah, by Ezra Taft Benson (President)
1998-05-02	26	Groundbreaking	Porto Alegre Brazil, by James E. Faust (2nd Counselor)
2010-05-02	14	Dedication	Vancouver British Columbia Temple dedicated
2011-05-02	13	Remodel Announced	Full scale remodel announced for Boise Idaho Temple
2015-05-02	9	Open House Ends	Open House ends at Cordoba Argentina Temple

Tomorrow

Date	Age	Type	Event
1983-05-03	40	Open House Begins	Atlanta Georgia
2024-05-03	0	Open House Begins	Salta Argentina

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