Mesa Arizona Temple
The Mesa Arizona Temple is the seventh temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- day Saints and the first in Arizona . It's in Mesa , a suburb of Phoenix . The temple is one of the few that do not have an angel Moroni and one of three that do not have a spire . The latter goes back to the model of the Temple of Solomon , as well as the Laie Hawaii Temple and the Cardston Alberta Temple .
During the second half of the nineteenth century, numerous Mormon settlers from Utah had come to Arizona. To save them the time-consuming trip to the temples in Utah, the construction of a temple in Arizona was planned since 1908. After the preparation was delayed by the First World War, the temple was inaugurated in 1927. Since 1945, it has been the first temple to offer endowment ceremonies in Spanish. It was renovated from 1974 to 1975.
It has 10,583 square meters of floor space, four endowment rooms and nine sealing rooms .
Milestones
| Announcement: | October 3, 1919 |
| First groundbreaking: | April 25, 1922 by Heber J. Grant |
| Dedication: | October 23, 1927 by Heber J. Grant |
| Re-consecration: | April 16, 1975 by Spencer W. Kimball |
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Coordinates: 33 ° 24 ′ 46.4 " N , 111 ° 49 ′ 10.5" W.