Following several years of renovation, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has announced significant progress on the Salt Lake City temple. Some of the upgrades include a new foundation, ...

The baptismal font is held up by 12 oxen, which represent the dozen animals that held up the Molten Sea, a large baptismal basin built by Solomon in Jerusalem. The mural in the background is one of ...

The earliest known Utah County baptistry of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has been discovered at the site of the old Provo Tabernacle.

He also said running a temple requires "an army of volunteers," saying there are about 2,000 volunteers for the new temple. Reservations for the open house are recommended and can be made online . × ...

Italy’s first ever Mormon temple opened on Monday, just a few miles up the road from the Vatican, in the Eternal City of Rome. While the building’s spires don’t reach the heights of St ...

Mormon Baptism Of Wiesenthal Kin ... Mormon Apostle Quentin Cook during a 2009 tour of a new Mormon Temple in ... of a proxy in a sacred baptismal font as the names of deceased ...

The mormon temple dome stands out against the bad air quality as a result from from wildfires in northern California, seen from the Oakland hills in Oakland, Calif., on Friday, Aug. 24, 2018.

Inside the baptismal room, 12 sculpted oxen, representing the 12 tribes of Israel, form the base of a central font, in which LDS members perform proxy baptisms for their ancestors. “The baptisms here ...

The Atlanta Georgia Temple in Sandy Springs sat empty for two years as it underwent an extensive renovation. Inside the white structure on Barfield Road Northeast, workers have installed new ...

Mormon temple, spirits soar . Originally published December 27, ... At a blue-tiled baptismal font astride 12 sculptured oxen, Mormons induct dead relatives into the faith.

BOISE• The building might have changed its look, but its holiness remains.

The temple has different rooms for different ordinances. The baptistry contains an octagonal baptismal font resting on 12 brass oxen symbolizing the Twelve Tribes of Israel.