Tickets Available July 21 for Ogden Temple Open House
Ticket reservations for the Ogden Temple open house will be available starting July 21 at 10 a.m. at templeopenhouse.ChurchofJesusChrist.org.
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Reservations for tickets to the Ogden Utah Temple open house will be available beginning Monday, July 21, 2014, at 10:00 a.m. Tickets can be reserved online at templeopenhouse.ChurchofJesusChrist.org.
The public open house will begin on Friday, August 1, 2014, and run through Saturday, September 6, 2014, except for Sundays.
Appointments for living ordinances will be taken beginning Wednesday, August 20, 2014, at 8:00 a.m.
The temple will be formally rededicated in three sessions on Sunday, September 21, 2014, at 10:00 a.m., 1:00 p.m., and 4:00 p.m. Each of the sessions will be broadcast to Latter-day Saint meetinghouses in the three Utah areas and to congregations in Riverton, Wyoming.
In conjunction with the temple rededication, there will also be a cultural celebration featuring music and dance on Saturday, September 20, 2014.
Closed since 2011, the temple’s entire exterior has been reshaped with new stone and art glass, and the temple entrance was moved from the west side to the east side, where it faces Washington Boulevard, one of the city’s main streets. The renovation of the temple also includes reconfigured rooms and new energy-saving electrical, heating, and plumbing systems. Other notable improvements include underground parking and a complete relandscaping of the temple block and inclusion of a major water feature.
The Ogden Utah Temple was originally dedicated in 1972 as the 14th operating temple for the Church and the 5th in Utah. There are now 142 dedicated temples worldwide, including 13 in Utah. Those include the Bountiful Temple, Brigham City Temple, Draper Temple, Jordan River Temple, Logan Temple, Manti Temple, Monticello Temple, Mount Timpanogos Temple, Oquirrh Mountain Temple, Provo Temple, Salt Lake Temple, St. George Temple, and Vernal Temple. Additional temples have been announced or are under construction in Provo, Payson, and Cedar City.
