Facts, Models, and Videos of Temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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!
This is a first draft for my Singapore Temple model. This one was rather interesting to model, because after I began, it became clear that it does not fit any of the standard plans the Church is currently using. This meant I had less reference material than usual, and I made a lot of guesses.
I have no doubt most of those guesses, if not all of them, are completely wrong. I look forward to the temple’s completion to find out how far off I actually am.
An expansion project for the Cardston Alberta Temple as begun in 1955, and finished up the next year. Previously, the entrance to the temple had been effectively underground, and was surrounded on both sides by a retaining wall that terraced the hill around the temple’s base. This terrace was excavated, enclosed, and everything inside the retaining wall was added to the temple.
Enjoy this video, which I have rendered in 4k at 60 frames per second!
Well, this is, and I emphasize it, a very rough first draft. So enjoy this, my first version of the Fort Worth Texas Temple.
◀ 2021
| Announced | 35 | Dedicated | 5 |
| Groundbreakings | 16 | Moroni Placed | 6 |
| Awaiting Groundbreaking | 76 | Under Renovation | 4 |
| Under Construction | 57 | In Operation | 171 |
| Dedicated | 175 | Total Moroni | 173 |
| Total Temples | 300 |
Wellington New Zealand
Brazzaville ROC
Barcelona Spain
Birmingham England
Cusco Peru
Maceió Brazil
Santos Brazil
San Luis Potosí Mexico
Mexico City Benemerito Mexico
Tampa Florida
Knoxville Tennessee
Cleveland Ohio
Wichita Kansas
Austin Texas
Missoula Montana
Montpelier Idaho
Modesto California
Busan Korea
Naga Philippines
Santiago Philippines
Eket Nigeria
Chiclayo Peru
Buenos Aires City Center Argentina
Londrina Brazil
Riberão Prêto Brazil
Huehuetenango Guatemala
Jacksonville Florida
Grand Rapids Michigan
Prosper Texas
Lone Mountain Nevada
Tacoma Washington
Cuernavaca Mexico
Pachuca Mexico
Toluca Mexico
Tula Mexico
Russia
Cagayan de Oro Philippines
Lagos Nigeria
Budapest Hungary
Port Moresby Papua New Guinea
Benin City Nigeria
Shanghai People’s Republic of China
Dubai United Arab Emirates
Tarawa Kiribati
Port Vila Vanuatu
São Paulo Brazil East
Santa Cruz Bolivia
Belo Horizonte Brazil
Cali Colombia
Cape Town South Africa
Singapore
Oslo Norway
Brussels Belgium
Vienna Austria
Kumasi Ghana
Beira Mozambique
Teton River Idaho
Kaohsiung Taiwan
Tacloban City Philippines
Monrovia Liberia
Kananga Democratic Republic of the Congo
Antananarivo Madagascar
Culiacán Mexico
Vitória Brazil
La Paz Bolivia
Santiago Chile West
Tula Mexico
Fort Worth Texas
Cody Wyoming
Montpelier Idaho
Modesto California
Wellington New Zealand
Brazzaville Republic of the Congo
Barcelona Spain
Birmingham England
Cusco Peru
Maceió Brazil
Santos Brazil San
Luis Potosí Mexico
Mexico City Benemérito Mexico
Tampa Florida
Knoxville Tennessee
Cleveland Ohio
Wichita Kansas
Austin Texas
Missoula Montana
Busan Korea
Naga Philippines
Santiago Philippines
Eket Nigeria
Chiclayo Peru
Buenos Aires City Center Argentina
Londrina Brazil
Ribeirão Preto Brazil
Huehuetenango Guatemala
Jacksonville Florida
Grand Rapids Michigan
Prosper Texas
Lone Mountain Nevada
Tacoma Washington
Cuernavaca Mexico
Pachuca Mexico
Toluca Mexico
Freetown Sierra Leon
Farmington New Mexico
Lindon Utah
Bahía Blanca Argentina
Elko Nevada
Grand Junction Colorado
Yorba Linda California
Burley Idaho
Smithfield Utah
Lubumbashi DRC
Ephraim Utah
Willamette Valley Oregon
Heber Valley Utah
Managua Nicuragua
Miraflores Guatemala City Guatemala
Torreón Mexico
San Juan Puerto Rico
Abidjan Ivory Coast
Urdaneta Philippines
Bangkok Thailand
Lima Peru Los Olivos
Saratoga Springs Utah
Puebla Mexico
Richmond Virginia
Layton Utah
Alabang Philippines
Auckland New Zealand
Feather River California
Orem Utah
San Pedro Sula Honduras
Brasília Brazil
Moses Lake Washington
Taylorsville Utah
Salta Argentina
Bentonville Arkansas
Red Cliffs Utah
Cobán Guatemala
Davao Philippines
McAllen Texas
Antofagasta Chile
Bengaluru India
Okinawa Japan
Harare Zimbabwe
Mendoza Argentina
Deseret Peak Utah
Tallahassee Florida
Syracuse Utah
Helena Montana
Salvador Brazil
Pittsburgh Pennsylvania
Nairobi Kenya
Neiafu Tonga
Phnom Penh Cambodia
Casper Wyoming
Pago Pago American Samoa
Bacolod Philippines
Freetown Sierra Leone
Bahía Blanca Argentina
Grand Junction Colorado
Lindon Utah
Farmington New Mexico
Elko Nevada
Burley Idaho
Smithfield Utah
Yorba Linda California
Lubumbashi Democratic Republic of the Congo
Ephraim Utah
Heber Valley Utah
Managua Nicaragua
Miraflores Guatemala City Guatemala
Torreón Mexico
Colombus Ohio
Manti Utah
Urdanetta Philippines
Puebla Mexico
Salta Argentina
Rio de Janiero Brazil
Yigo Guam
Praia Cape Verde
Washington D.C.
Tokyo Japan
Hamilton New Zealand
Kona Hawaii
Stockholm Sweden
Provo Utah
I have an updated video for the Pago Pago American Samoa Temple today. This one should be a fair bit more accurate, especially on the temple itself, than the last one.
On 24 November 2022 the Church placed an Angel Moroni Statue atop the Salta Argentina Temple. This event was significant because, even though there are 55 Temples currently under construction and an additional 9 temples that have had a render released, none of them are slated to receive a Statue unless they already have it. 35 of the temples under construction don’t have completed spires yet, either, and none of them are slated to receive a statue at this point.
This ends an era. With few exceptions, every temple built in the last 40 years has had the statue.
Because of this, I have taken the opportunity to make a definitive, final version of a couple of my long-running projects.
My e-book about the Angel Statue history and usage is finally finished. Any temple that did not have a render released at the time of publishing has been removed to simplify the book over all, though they are mentioned briefly. Articles and stories are updated, including a mention of the final statue placement.
Now, there still may be small updates for grammar, phrasing, typos and the like, but there will not be another major edition of this volume.
The Book is still rather large, so I have once a gain broken it down into 2 parts. Part one is Bios, statue info, stories and myths. Part 2 is all the charts, graphs and lists.
The biggest change this time around, however, is that I have nearly completed my efforts to put the whole book into an online readable format, for those who have no desire to download. That can be found here:
Of an even more satisfying is what will be the final major update to My Moroni Direction infographic. I’m sure there are small errors and things I have forgotten, stuff I will need to change, but for the most part, this is now done. It will not be updated as new renders are released.
Should the Church once again commence the practice of adding statues to temples, even retroactively, It will, at this point, constitute a whole new Volume of my book, rather than an update to the existing. It may mean the same thing for the infographic as well. I haven’t decided on that one yet.
It’s taken longer than I wish it had, and I am way off in many details, but I have finished my first draft for the Managua Nicaragua Temple.
Greetings! Enjoy my first attempt at the newly released plans for the renovation of the Kona Hawaii Temple. As with everything, I do lately, it’s as much guess as anything else.
I have finished a first draft video for the pending renovation of the Provo Utah Temple. As usual, I don’t have any inside information, this is, again, just me guessing. But this is what I think it will look like. Hope you enjoy it!