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The St. George Utah Temple, formerly known as the St. George Temple, is a temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in St. George, Utah.Completed in 1877, it was the third temple constructed by the church and the first in Utah, following the westward migration of Mormon pioneers from Nauvoo, Illinois, after the death of church founder Joseph Smith.
[6] [7] Miles Romney supervised the construction of the St. George Temple and Tabernacle. [8] Romney died in St. George, Utah, on May 3, 1877, from complications suffered from a fall while working on the St. George Temple. Romney is an ancestor of politicians George W. Romney and Mitt Romney.
In this position, he was in charge of the construction of numerous buildings in Utah Territory, including the St. George Temple, and the Salt Lake Temple. Angell's modifications to the Salt Lake Tabernacle in 1870 are said to have resolved the outstanding acoustical issues with that structure.
Upon reaching the Great Basin, Brigham Young began to build settlements based on the City of Zion plan and designated four of these to contain temples: Salt Lake City (1847), St. George (1871), Manti (1875), and Logan (1877). The St. George Temple was the first to be completed in 1877, followed by Logan (1884) and Manti (1888).
The St. George Utah Temple (1), described as castellated neo-Gothic, [11] and French Norman Revival styles. has three ordinance rooms and eighteen sealing rooms. It has a total floor space of 110,000 sq ft (10,000 m 2). The temple was originally patterned after the Kirtland and Nauvoo Temples, with two large assembly halls featuring a set of ...
In 1877 McAllister was appointed president of the LDS Church's St. George Stake. He also served as the Brigadier General for the Utah militia in Washington County, Utah. McAllister was first counselor to Wilford Woodruff in the presidency of the St. George Temple when it opened. During this time he baptized Wilford Woodruff as proxy for the ...
He was married to three more wives between 1852 and 1853. In 1877, he became president of the St. George Temple, where endowment ordinances were first performed for the dead as well as the living. Woodruff helped standardize the temple ceremony and decreed that church members could act as proxy for anyone they could identify by name.
The temple was built on a sunken field in a swamp, amid sandstone buttes and mesas. [20] Due to a high water table, the foundation used would be unable to support the temple, [5] so workers moved more than 30,000 cubic yards of red dirt from the foundation of the St. George Temple to stabilize the foundation of the Red Cliffs Temple. [5]