Logan Utah Temple, Religious temple in Logan, United States.
Logan Utah Temple is a five-story temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Logan, Utah, built of dark siliceous limestone with buff-colored limestone for carved details. Its castellated exterior combines Gothic Revival and French Renaissance elements, with two towers—a taller square tower with a lantern and cupola and a shorter domed tower—and rows of pinnacles along the roofline. The rough-hewn gray-brown masonry and arched windows with white frames are visible behind flowering shrubs and a purple-leaved tree.
Construction started in 1877 following plans by architect Truman O. Angell and took seven years until dedication in 1884. It was the fourth such building for this faith community and arose at a time when the region remained thinly populated.
The name comes from Logan, the Cache Valley city where the temple stands; the sources record no pioneer-honoring name. The site was a public park and grounds held in reserve for years before it was dedicated as the temple site. Inside, the four ordinance rooms are each decorated in a different color scheme, and the celestial room holds a large crystal chandelier.
The temple stands on a nine-acre plot in Logan, with the grounds landscaped around a pioneer-inspired oval reflecting pool. The site was used as a park and public grounds before it was dedicated for the temple. Quarried stone was hauled in winter by sled, when farm work was light.
During the initial construction phase, women from the surrounding area wove and sewed by hand roughly 2,144 square yards (1,800 square meters) of carpet for the interior. This work happened alongside their daily tasks and shows the involvement of the entire community in the project.
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