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The temple has 192 rooms, which includes four ordinance rooms, a celestial room, six sealing rooms, a baptismal font, and other facilities to meet the needs of the temple. The temple serves church members in the southern part of Nevada and surrounding areas in California and Arizona.
Despite the six spires and sloped-roofs, temples in this style vary widely in design, size, capacity, and floorplan. An example is the Portland Oregon and Las Vegas Nevada temples. Despite being around the same size, Portland has 8 additional ordinance rooms. Because of this, these temples are some of the most unique temples in the church.
In addition to the Celestial room, the temple has four ordinance rooms (Creation room, Garden room, World room, Terrestrial room), and ten sealing rooms. It has a square footage of 190,614 sq ft (17,708.6 m 2). Following the basic design of the Bern temple, the Hamilton New Zealand Temple (11) was dedicated in 1958. It was built, along with the ...
Just north of Pittsburgh, the non-member public had a rare opportunity in August to tour a temple, the 196th to be completed. Crystal chandeliers, woodwork and framed paintings of idealized biblical scenes adorned the interior. The Las Vegas temple site is a large undeveloped lot surrounded by single-family homes, schools and parks.
The first building to have ordinance rooms, designed to conduct the Endowment, was Joseph Smith's store in Nauvoo, Illinois, in 1842.Using canvas, Smith divided the store's large, second-floor room into "departments," which represented "the interior of a temple as much as circumstances would permit" (Anderson & Bergera, Quorum of Anointed, 2).
Sep. 14—The Jewish community in Las Vegas, N.M., survived without a building to call its own for more than six decades, calling to mind Moses and the Israelites wandering in the wilderness for ...
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