Brigham City Utah Temple |
Planning phase; groundbreaking pending (awaiting announcement) |
On December 3, 2009, the City Council of Brigham City held a public hearing to receive input on a request by the Church to vacate both the plat that subdivides the temple site into lots and the associated easements. The resolution was unanimously approved, reverting the block back to a single lot and giving the Church control over the utilities on site.1
On November 5, 2009, sale of the Brigham City Utah Temple site formally closed. With purchase of the site completed, the temple is now in its design phase, which generally lasts several months. Once a design has been finalized, Church representatives will seek the necessary building permits to proceed with the groundbreaking ceremony.
On October 26, 2009, Church officials announced that the Brigham City Utah Temple will be constructed on a downtown block on Main Street known as Central Square, located directly west of the Box Elder Tabernacle.2 Speculation of this location began shortly after the announcement of the temple when a sign was posted on the site indicating that sale of all seven commercial lots on the block were pending. Central Elementary School once stood on the site, but it was razed several years ago in a downtown redevelopment effort.
The Brigham City Utah Temple District will be formed from stakes currently belonging to the Ogden Utah Temple District and the Logan Utah Temple District. Official boundaries have not been established, but it is likely that the new district will include the Malad Idaho Stake and the 11 stakes of Box Elder County with the possible exception of the Fielding Utah Stake.
On October 3, 2009, during the Saturday morning session of the 179th Semiannual General Conference, President Thomas S. Monson announced the construction of the Brigham City Utah Temple—Utah's fourteenth temple. Utah's most recently constructed temples were dedicated earlier in 2009 in the cities of Draper, Utah and South Jordan, Utah.3
The Brigham City Utah Temple will be the fourteenth temple built in Utah and the first built in Box Elder County.
1. "Regular Meeting of the Brigham City Council," BrighamCity.utah.gov 3 Dec. 2009, 19 Feb. 2010 <http://www.brighamcity.utah.gov/City%20Council%2012-03-09_1.pdf>.
2. "And the location is…," Box Elder News Journal 27 Oct. 2009, 27 Oct. 2009 <http://boxelder.uber.matchbin.com/pages/full_story/push?article-And+the+location+is+-+-+-%20&id=4163827-And+the+location+is+-+-+-&instance=home_news_right>.
3. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints News Release, "Five New Temples Announced," 3 Oct. 2009.
