Construction gets underway for Deseret Peak Temple in Tooele
| Updated: 11:05 p.m. Ground was broken for a new “House of the Lord” in Tooele on Saturday. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced that work has officially begun on the new Deseret Peak Temple, a three-story, 70,000-square-foot structure that will be a half-hour from Salt Lake City at 2400 N. 400 West. A 20,000-square-foot meetinghouse will also be built at the site. General authority Seventy Brook Hales presided over a groundbreaking ceremony attended by about 200 Latter-day Saint leaders and guests. “Help us that through the atonement of our Savior, Jesus Christ, ...
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