Category: Work In Progress

I Love To See the Temple – Smallest to Largest

Posted on by Brian Olson in Research, Work In Progress

A valiant effort on my behalf lies before you. Here I have attempted to catalog each temple based upon official square footage of the temple.

Temples in the light gray blue are placeholders, which were necessary anytime the Church had released the square footage, but not yet the render. Sometimes, this was also needed when the render had been released, but I had not yet made a model for it. Which happens with increasing frequency.

The eagle-eyed among us will notice that occasionally a temple will look small compared to its neighbors. This is often due to the temple being taller than wider, or having much under instead of above ground.

The image below, when clicked, will take you to a page featuring all my “I Love to See the Temple” series infographics. This one joins the ranks of images today, and I hope you enjoy it.

Anchorage Alaska Temple, 2026

The Anchorage Alaska Temple, ~2025

Posted on by Brian Olson in Research, Video, Work In Progress

The Anchorage Temple will close soon for an extensive “reconstruction” that will consist of building a new temple further north on the lot where the Stake Center currently sits. After completion of the new temple, the original structure will be removed, and a new Stake Center built at that location.

This video has been put together from the Church’s official render, and by information presented to the city.

St. George Utah Temple (1938-1958)

Posted on by Brian Olson in Research, Video, Work In Progress

I have been very, very, busy with work. Oh, so very busy. But, today I discovered that I had already rendered out a historic video (and possibly some others) that I had not posted the video for.

This video represents the St. George Utah Temple after the 1938 renovation. This was a whole new annex, and appears to have kept nothing of the original. It was more modern, more aesthetically pleasing, and less utilitarian than the previous annex versions.

Along with this annex video being posted, I have made some discoveries about the previous videos that I need to correct. I have pinned down a date for the creation of the original first annex. I discovered that the Annex was not burned down completely by the 1927 fire, but was renovated starting immediately.

I am going to spend some free time today to update all the previous posts, identifying which ones are incorrect, and fixing the temple wiki.

Bountiful Utah, Lindon Utah, and Orem Utah Photography now available.

Posted on by Brian Olson in Photography, Work In Progress

I have uploaded some more photography for free use. One of these temples (Lindon) I first visited just today. Another one, Orem, was my second visit, but for now, I have misplaced my first set, so I will upload that later. BUT, it was photos of the early grading of the site, so nothing worth stressing over.

Bountiful Utah Temple Photos
Lindon Utah Temple Photos
Orem Utah Temple Photos

Yet Another Project

Posted on by Brian Olson in Photography, Work In Progress

Over the last 25 and a half years, I have been taking photos of temples on and off. During that time period, I have visited 94 temples and taken over 47,500 photos. That’s an average of 5 photos per day.

It is my intention to slowly make all of those images free to download. I’m starting that project now, and have made several photos available already.

I have decided to start with the first temple I attended for myself, Provo Utah. I will not be making regular posts about these uploads, but want to do so now by sharing with you my favorite photoset from the Provo Temple. Taken just a couple of years before the spire was painted white, this shoot features both the original form of the soon-to-be demolished and rebuilt temple, and some of my favorite angles of this temple.

Provo Utah – 2001/11/14

In the post is a small slideshow gallery, plus a button linking to the full resolution images. Many of these images are already available via the Gallery at CChurchofJesusChristTemples.org, but here you will find the full set.

You can see my other uploaded Provo Temple images here: https://photogent.com/provo-utah-temple/photos/

Enjoy!

Stockholm Sweden Temple renovation video

Posted on by Brian Olson in Video, Work In Progress

I found out today that the Church quietly commenced the renovation for the Stockholm Sweden Temple at the end of last month. Previously, the Church had just said that the renovation would begin sometime this year.

Some time last month, I finished this model, rendered it, then forgot all about it until the news broke about the renovation. So, here is Stockholm, according to my best guess, based upon the Church’s render.

First Draft video for the Knoxville Tennessee Temple

Posted on by Brian Olson in Video, Work In Progress

Here is my first draft model for the Knoxville Tennessee Temple. In my slow and plodding efforts to stay caught up to the Church when it comes to design releases, I typically get to one temple behind when the Church releases a set of 4 to 6 renders. This model brings me up to one behind.

So if tradition holds, expect some new official renders released next week!