Gilbert Arizona Temple, Latter-day Saints temple in Gilbert, Arizona, US.
The Gilbert Arizona Temple is a temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at 3301 South Greenfield Road, at Pecos Road in Gilbert. Its exterior is light cream-colored precast concrete with white quartz, and the building rises to a slender spire topped by a golden statue of the angel Moroni. Interlinked agave leaves are worked into the design as a symbol of marriage and family.
Announced on April 26, 2008, by church president Thomas S. Monson, the temple was the fourth built in Arizona and the church's 142nd operating temple. Claudio R. M. Costa presided at the groundbreaking on November 13, 2010. Henry B. Eyring and Monson dedicated it on March 2, 2014, after a public open house from January 18 to February 15, 2014.
The temple incorporates desert-inspired design elements like agave leaf motifs and stained glass in blues, greens, and earth tones throughout its interior. These features connect the building visually to Arizona's natural landscape.
The temple stands at 3301 South Greenfield Road, at the corner of Pecos and Greenfield roads, on a 15.4-acre site bounded by Somerset and Granview Boulevards. Unlike meetinghouses, it holds no Sunday services, and after the 2014 dedication only members holding a current temple recommend may enter. Non-members can view the exterior, the fountains, plazas and pergolas, and the angel Moroni statue from outside the fence.
The spire reaches 195 feet once the angel Moroni statue was set in place on May 15, 2012. The town sets no height limit on steeples, so the 180-foot steeple needed no exemption, though the council had to raise the building limit from 45 to 85 feet.
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