Mormon Church Shows Scale Model of Inside of Salt Lake Temple

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“More than a century has passed since the public open house was held for the Salt Lake Temple, but an exhibit featuring a 1:32 scaled replica of the Mormon temple opened today that offers an open house experience of the magnificent building. Earlier this morning, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints unveiled the 88-inch tall, near-identical replica of the temple in the South Visitors’ Center on Temple Square. The permanent exhibit will be open to the public starting at 1:30 p.m. today”

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CatholicGuyNY said:
“More than a century has passed since the public open house was held for the Salt Lake Temple, but an exhibit featuring a 1:32 scaled replica of the Mormon temple opened today that offers an open house experience of the magnificent building. Earlier this morning, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints unveiled the 88-inch tall, near-identical replica of the temple in the South Visitors’ Center on Temple Square. The permanent exhibit will be open to the public starting at 1:30 p.m. today”

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Nice Masonic Temple- err- Lodge- err- Mormon Temple.

The contents of that building were supposed to be secret, but apparently they decided to open up. I don’t know why I was surprised it was an overglorified grand lodge.
 
it is beautiful. i have been to the temple in hawaii. the temple itself was being refurbished, so we could only go to the visitors center. interesting experience. i want to go to the open house when they are finished, but i think i will be gone by that time. nice people there tho. and its wonderful to see they are being more open to outsiders. peace 🙂
 
Timothy17 said:
Nice Masonic Temple- err- Lodge- err- Mormon Temple.

The contents of that building were supposed to be secret, but apparently they decided to open up. I don’t know why I was surprised it was an overglorified grand lodge.
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Excuse me, Timothy, but given that we have public open houses for all our Temples, and invite EVERYBODY in to see them before they are dedicated, and given that one can see pictures of the inside of our Temples on the official church website, may I humbly ask where you got the idea that the 'contents of that building were supposed to be secret?"
 
No doubt that many LDS temples are indeed beautiful.

I can’t remember the name of the Architect that designed the Salt Lake temple, but he traveled a good deal and learned a lot to incorporate into his design.
 
GenericNameGuy said:
No doubt that many LDS temples are indeed beautiful.

I can’t remember the name of the Architect that designed the Salt Lake temple, but he traveled a good deal and learned a lot to incorporate into his design.
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Not to mention the hard work and love that went into building the temple. For the settlers in Utah, building a temple was extremely important for religious reasons. The lds looked forward to its completion and the building shows the lengths people will go to show their love for god. Not much different to the building of catholic cathedrals.
 
dianaiad said:
Excuse me, Timothy, but given that we have public open houses for all our Temples, and invite EVERYBODY in to see them before they are dedicated, and given that one can see pictures of the inside of our Temples on the official church website, may I humbly ask where you got the idea that the 'contents of that building were supposed to be secret?"
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It was my Mormon friend that told me only Mormons who kept the tenets of their religion were allowed to enter into the temples, and then only for the purpose of marriage. He must have been mistaken and meant that only Mormons who kept the tenets of their religion were allowed to be married in their temples.
 
Timothy17 said:
It was my Mormon friend that told me only Mormons who kept the tenets of their religion were allowed to enter into the temples, and then only for the purpose of marriage. He must have been mistaken and meant that only Mormons who kept the tenets of their religion were allowed to be married in their temples.
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hi timothy. its my my understanding they have many types of rituals in the temple. not just marriage. there is baptism for the dead by proxy. sealing by proxy,if im not mistaken. not to mention, the ritual where they go from the garden of eden to the celestial kingdom, which i find fascinating. and in its pre 1990 form, is almost identicle to the masonic rituals. although i think the Mormons ritual is more along lines of the bible story. they can correct me if im wrong on anything. not going to really get into it out of respect to them. peace. 🙂
 
Timothy17 said:
It was my Mormon friend that told me only Mormons who kept the tenets of their religion were allowed to enter into the temples, and then only for the purpose of marriage. He must have been mistaken and meant that only Mormons who kept the tenets of their religion were allowed to be married in their temples.
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OK, I see where the problem is.

There is a difference between archetecture/decoration and ceremonies. It’s a little like Mass and the building it is said in; they are really two different things.

Yes, the Temple ceremonies, though not secret, are sacred to us. We will not discuss them outside Temple walls, and after a Temple is dedicated, only members of the church with Temple recommends are allowed inside.

However, we have no problem with letting everybody see what everything looks like inside, or providing tours before dedications. Most temples have ‘visitor’s centers’ that have pictures of Temple interiors.

What we do NOT do is discuss the ceremony scripts outside the Temple, with anybody. We don’t even discuss them with each other, even when we might have sat side by side during the entire thing. Temple matters stay inside Temple walls for us, because they are very sacred and precious to us. We don’t want to expose them to ridicule, controversy or debate.

The concepts they represent? Sure. We’ll talk about them any time…but we do reserve that one special time and place to ourselves as a place of refuge and peace, where our enemies and critics can’t spoil things.

I think it is a very wise decision, too, especially when I have to battle through a block full of people waving Temple garments, mocking our beliefs and shouting anti-Mormon diatribes at us just to get to the Temple doors. I’m not going to give that one place of peace up for ‘the world’ to destroy and desecrate.
 
dianaiad said:
OK, I see where the problem is.

There is a difference between archetecture/decoration and ceremonies. It’s a little like Mass and the building it is said in; they are really two different things.

Yes, the Temple ceremonies, though not secret, are sacred to us. We will not discuss them outside Temple walls, and after a Temple is dedicated, only members of the church with Temple recommends are allowed inside.

However, we have no problem with letting everybody see what everything looks like inside, or providing tours before dedications. Most temples have ‘visitor’s centers’ that have pictures of Temple interiors.

What we do NOT do is discuss the ceremony scripts outside the Temple, with anybody. We don’t even discuss them with each other, even when we might have sat side by side during the entire thing. Temple matters stay inside Temple walls for us, because they are very sacred and precious to us. We don’t want to expose them to ridicule, controversy or debate.

The concepts they represent? Sure. We’ll talk about them any time…but we do reserve that one special time and place to ourselves as a place of refuge and peace, where our enemies and critics can’t spoil things.

I think it is a very wise decision, too, especially when I have to battle through a block full of people waving Temple garments, mocking our beliefs and shouting anti-Mormon diatribes at us just to get to the Temple doors. I’m not going to give that one place of peace up for ‘the world’ to destroy and desecrate.
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hi diana. ive seen you-tube videos of fundamentalist doing this, and its sad. i wonder if these are the same people who protest outside Catholic Churches. maybe the the Catholics and the Mormons need to have a joint service and really put these folks in a tizzy! wouldnt that be a hoot. hopefully they have laws keeping behavior like this, at least a decent distance from your temple, so you dont have to hear their clammering from inside. if anyone did this outside a Jewish synagouge or African American Church, there would be an uproar. Peace and prayers for you. 🙂
 
benidict said:
hi diana. ive seen you-tube videos of fundamentalist doing this, and its sad. i wonder if these are the same people who protest outside Catholic Churches. maybe the the Catholics and the Mormons need to have a joint service and really put these folks in a tizzy! wouldnt that be a hoot. hopefully they have laws keeping behavior like this, at least a decent distance from your temple, so you dont have to hear their clammering from inside. if anyone did this outside a Jewish synagouge or African American Church, there would be an uproar. Peace and prayers for you. 🙂
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In many cases they are exactly the same people, Benidict! 😉 People who pull this stuff with Mormons tend to be equal opportunity haters, and according to many of them Catholics aren’t Christians either. That makes such…stuff…perfectly permissible, you know, in their eyes.
 
Great. Now, you just talk about those secre…I mean sacred Endowment Ceremonies.

People of all faiths are invited to any Catholic ceremony.

dianaiad says it all in “We don’t want to expose them to …debate.”
 
scipio337 said:
Great. Now, you just talk about those secre…I mean sacred Endowment Ceremonies.

People of all faiths are invited to any Catholic ceremony.

dianaiad says it all in “We don’t want to expose them to …debate.”
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dont forget what she also said. ridicule and controversy from those that dont understand them. or have a fear of the unique. our Catholic forbearers were not always that open about the Eucharist either, lets not forget. which led to charges of cannibalism and such early on. peace 🙂
 
scipio337 said:
Great. Now, you just talk about those secre…I mean sacred Endowment Ceremonies.

People of all faiths are invited to any Catholic ceremony.

dianaiad says it all in “We don’t want to expose them to …debate.”
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Hi Scipio. Technically, not really. Non-catholics are discouraged in partaking of the Holy Communion, Confession, and some others.

But, I know what you’re saying.
 
pinay said:
Hi Scipio. Technically, not really. Non-catholics are discouraged in partaking of the Holy Communion, Confession, and some others.

But, I know what you’re saying.
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Actually, any non-Catholic may talk to a priest about any issue in their life without receiving absolution, at any time. And there is no “Communion police” to check for recieving before receiving the Eucharist.

“Discouraged” is a lot different from “forbidden”.
 
benidict said:
dont forget what she also said. ridicule and controversy from those that dont understand them. or have a fear of the unique. our Catholic forbearers were not always that open about the Eucharist either, lets not forget. which led to charges of cannibalism and such early on. peace 🙂
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Really? Early Church Fathers like Ignatius of Antioch and Justin Martyr and writings like the Didache were pretty open about it. I don’t recally any requests of “do not discuss these secre…, err, sacred traditions with any non-Christians” in reading either.
 
scipio337 said:
Really? Early Church Fathers like Ignatius of Antioch and Justin Martyr and writings like the Didache were pretty open about it. I don’t recally any requests of “do not discuss these secre…, err, sacred traditions with any non-Christians” in reading either.
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actually if you remember, it was more a matter of practice. when the time for the Eucharist came, the uninitiated did not partake, they waited outside. also there was a time when the priest would turn his back to the congregation, and they would not see or hear what was being done. nothing wrong with this. but some elements of the mass were more secretive at certain points in our history. for exactly the same reasons. they are and were sacred then as now. peace 🙂
 
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