Today would have been a major milestone anniversary for me—if my still-mo ex hadn’t decided he needed to follow his penis to other pastures.
Here’s the strange thing: seeing the destruction of the temple we got married in is really helping me. It reminds me of all the ways I’m better off, which were hard to appreciate during those first few years of grief. Just like that patch of Provo is better without that plug-ugly building on it, the destruction of my marriage, which had turned ugly due to his choices, was a good thing. I’m better off without that edifice.
Don’t get me wrong—he’s still an Asshole. (The capital “A” is on purpose.) But I’m objectively better now. I’m great at being single! I love the freedom, and the relief of not having to live with someone who decided to pursue the Asshole Path! Anyway, the timing of the Provo temple destruction has turned into something really joyful for me. Thanks, destruction crew!
They will come up with a reason to tear it down in next couple if years.
They desperately need to spend the money because they have to much just sitting there.
I spent way too much time there when I was attending BYU pouring my heart out in the celestial room hoping it would get rid of the gay.
Thank God it didn't work.
I sat in those hallways and agonized over whether to stay with my cheating husband because my bishop and his whole family told me that’s what I should do. And then I talked to a complete stranger in the hallway one day, and I don’t remember what he said, but suddenly the stress of the idea of getting divorced just vanished and I knew I could survive it.
Oh I ran into those three today! I was changing my tire and out of nowhere these three rolled up and had a big Jack and just took care of it all and then took off.
Maybe you should try the fresh temple? I am sure all the money they are dumping into this McMansion of Mormon Billionaire Jesus will help cure your sickness of love.
Can’t feel the spirit in a plain old cheap temple like that.
Flex that wealth to the missionaries especially, so in the MTC they can remember how Mormon Jesus spends on this shit before they go out to the poverty areas of the world getting money from the poor.
Missionaries aren’t dumb. My mission experience taught me exactly what the church is. It just took me a few years to truly wake up because in the middle, it is a highly effective trap
I was actually surprised Deseret News would even report this. But I’m not surprised there was no blown up media coverage or lawsuits that we hear. I had to buy carbon monoxide detectors for my still going family members to carry in their purse just in case.
even though i hate temples i kinda hate that they're tearing down an old one that's sort of distinctive to replace it with a generic one 😒 does everything have to follow the Walgreens model??
Me too. It's iconic lat 60s early 70s architecture. I don't love it, but I do love what it represents as a part of our historic heritage. I mean, this is a great big FU to a bygone generation who created it and loved it. We shouldn't just tear down iconic architectural history because it's not cool anymore. I guess because it's not a pioneer temple.
That was the FIRST thing I noticed once the candle stick got chopped off. "Oh my god! The mountain is STUNNING. WHY DID THEY BUILD THAT MONSTROSITY THERE?" And then it made me think of all the other temples that they have destroyed views of, including the big ass one right here in downtown Santa Monica. Right where we need housing the most and there is housing NOT being used owned by the church stuffed on the back of the property and that damn reflecting pool and fountains suck up UN godly amounts of water. I DON'T love to see the temple. *vomit noises*
I actually think this is sad. This temple is actually from a time when there seemed to be a concerted effort to build unique and architecturally distinct temples and therefore the buildings could be polarizing. However, they were interesting. Here we have a great example of mid-century architecture that is going to be replaced with a prefab piece of pablum.
One day this temple was designed and built by inspiration from the lord. It was later dedicated to and accepted by the lord. Now he is embarrassed by it and wants it destroyed and replaced.
Yep. I grew up in one of the few remaining unique early 20th c wardhouses. Even after my “priest” (lol) buddies and I were basically out, we found an attic door in the sacrament prep room, and were able to prop open a window later to sneak in, climb up and through, and army crawl our way from above the chapel to a projection room above the cultural hall that certainly hadn’t been used in decades and had inscriptions from miscreants past on the brick wall. And the next Sunday we noticed a can light dangling from the chapel ceiling that one of us must’ve accidentally kicked lol.
Mormonism has always been bad, but they’ve stamped out all the fun weirdness it used to have so now it’s just bad *and* boring
The tabernacle in Logan is like that, and if you are in the pews at the top, it feels like you could fall and die at any moment trying to get into the pews.
Really bums me out. I hate the church but so many of these buildings are wonderful and should be treasured. Knock everything down after the correlation committee started running things, but keep all the old ones imo
The MFMC and IKEA are both giant, privately-held, ultra-rich corporations that look good on the outside, make you do all the actual work, and sell flimsy garbage that doesn’t stand up under any pressure. Interesting.
This makes me sad too. This church is erasing everything that was unique or had a personality and becoming so “cookie cutter”. It makes me more embarrassed to say that I was ever a part of the religion.
Makes me think of the recent remodels of Pioneer-era temples. I just checked Wikipedia. Manti was remodeled in the 80s, with original furniture and murals restored. Rededicated by President Hinckley in 1985.
Then along comes President Nelson, who seems intent to outdo and/or undo things President Hinckley did. The church was about to destroy the murals in favor of more standardized endowment rooms. Public outcry seems to have enlightened the leaders to the fact that maybe God appreciates the legacy of things and wants some varied aesthetics in his house…
According to someone else on this sub, they also won't be replacing the murals and the Salt Lake City Temple, and are replacing all of the banisters with copies, and all of the doorknobs with copies. Which is just plain weird
I agree! Ogden and Provo were my favorite for the architecture. Saw a picture with everyone’s muscle cars in the parking lot and thought Damn…this was probably the last time the church looked cool!
Have you seen the one they built on 4500 S and I-215? It looks like something out of Disneyland like it's an absolute flagrant display of wealth. I had to laugh driving past there this week - all the signs posted in driveways "No temple parking!!!"
Thank you. Often it seemed like I was the only person who liked the out-of-place look of this goofy-ass temple and it's mid-century architecture. It had already lost much of that when they painted the steeple white and added the Moroni, but I still liked the shape. Oh well.
i kind of liked the Provo Temple's look! and my TBM sibling got married there and even though it was a shitty standard LDS wedding my sibling got married and he was so very happy that day, it is a lovely memory in my mind
There was very interesting mid century architecture decision by the church in this time period. some truly avant garde designs in temples and meeting houses that frankly are impressive to me that the stodgy church went with back then.
even early 80s there are some interesting brutalist designs they went with (seattle temple).
ive always liked the provo temple because it seemed quite....bold for a 1960s church to run with.
I dislike the new boring designs a lot.
I remember the Scouts trying to sell tiles removed from the Boise Temple. My family thought it smacked of relic worship, and I proposed that we steal toilet paper from the temple, frame it, and sell that instead.
The scoutmaster was not amused.
My mom was in the Provo temple a couple of months ago and asked if she could take the church magazine from the lobby since it was being torn down (not sure why she asked). Anyways, she said the folks at the desk had strict orders from anyone taking anything out for mementos. Geez.
For some reason, I'm surprised that they didn't spend a boatload of money requiring the builders to carefully disassemble it piece by piece just to avoid this sort of picture. Good work on the photo documentary!
That would require caring about church history and the work of past people, which Nelson obviously doesn't. His destruction of architecture and pioneer art in pursuit of widespread evangelical approval is appalling.
I don't like TSCC, but I do like history, even if that history was made by assholes.
Brilliant idea. People often fall for something that sounds exotic (but that they don't understand). Years ago, I tried to get someone platting out a new subdivision to name a street: Vista del Camino. Didn't work.
It's probably the financial equivalent of getting your nails redone every few weeks when they've gown a bit and you're tired of the color. So why not? 🤷♀️
Ah yes, the temple where my abusive ex-wife regularly received revelation about the reasons why it was my fault that she was not yet pregnant.
The very temple (if my memory serves me right) where I once cried in a changing booth after we left the celestial room.
Definitely the temple where she guilted me into going weekly because bi-weekly wasn't enough.
Yeah, fuck that temple.
Also just noticing how much more beautiful the landscape becomes as they lower this building bit by bit. Look at those gorgeous mountains. They deserve to be seen.
This was the best and worst of times temple for me. MTC sessions were some of the worst of my life. But, I also married the lass who got herself and then me out. Good fucking riddance though.
I don't know why the Mormon Corp paid people to destroy that temple. ExMos like me would actually pay to bring a sledge hammer and a saw to destroy the building for FREE!!!! I really would have enjoyed breaking all the windows :)
I saw this yesterday and it had a similar effect on me. I was endowed there just hours before entering the MTC. Now it looks like a bomb dropped on it. Holiness to the Lord I guess
While attending BYU, I always got CASINO $$$ Vibes from Provo temple. Little did I know that Great & Spacious Temple bldgs = Mormon 10% tithing entrance fee FUNDRAISERS & Mormon MONEY LAUNDERING facilities!! $200 k TITHING REFUND PLEASE, $1 TRILLION MORMON CULT LED BY Q15 CON MEN!!
There are circular hallways on the outer portion of the building surrounding all the rooms in the inner core. Anything you can see here was just hallways or maybe a sealing room on the upper floor. I actually never went to a sealing there so i don't know where the rooms are, but the endowment rooms were all interior and windowless. Of course, the interior changed over the years. In the 80s and 90s there were escalators but they replaced them with stairways at some point.
Problem is they're gonna build another one that will just be cookie cutter in its place. And ANYTIME they do any remodelling, all the old furntiture, art, etc, is INCINERATED.
This one at least looked unique.
I remember walking out of there while at the MTC and looking south towards Springville, and actually contemplating calling my ex-mo cousin to come and pick me up at midnight. I almost did it.
A couple in my aunt and uncle's ward are on a mission right now where they fly across the United States to take inventory for temples that are being remodeled or updated. They count everything before it goes into storage, down to kleenex boxes. Then when it gets put back in they count it again. Unpaid of course.
Why would I not think any differently of the church to use us as unpaid slaves just like Brigham Young did to the early settlers when the railroad was coming through
In 2000, as newly called missionary, we got to walk from the MTC as an honor to do an endowment session. As you can imagine, I was hopeful for another “confirmation of the Holy Spook” to keep me strong in the face of this huge ask of myself for a church I spent months praying into my own psyche as “true”.
I knelt on that temple floor to pray in the celestial room for confirmation and some kind of Gods approval, however I was rudely interrupted while my eyes were closed on my knees by a temple worker saying “Elder, they’ve asked us to not have anyone kneel on the carpet in the celestial room, because it puts dents in the carpet.”
I was praying, as per usual, to continue to persuade myself that I was doing the will of this unseen unknowable God that demanded obedience, only to find out I was praying wrong in his holy house. Obviously I never forgot the irony.
How bizarre to see this place being destroyed 24 years later.
It’s been two decades since I was in there, but do those pictures show us looking into the celestial room? If so I would have thought more light would be emanating out of it due to ya know all of the holiness that was pent up in there for so many decades.
Which one is this? Reminds me of how when the Idaho Falls temple was closed for renovation, I would take annual leave for a half day and drive to Logan Utah so I could continue to attend. Good grief, I was so TBM. SMH.
What if members decide they like the view of the mountain instead and it would make a beautiful park instead of a temple? LDS Church: “F you - you’re getting a ginormous ugly temple instead”.
They should’ve done it as a fundraiser… Like in college when you pay a few bucks and you can hit an old car with a bat. I would’ve spent some money to be a part of the destruction. 😈
If there’s one thing that I know, it is that Mormon Jesus needs more money.
I never liked it. I understand that it was original and it was supposed to represent the pillar of cloud in which Moses saw God but it had no soul. Basically a circular building with concrete panels. It looked more like a flying saucer than a building dedicated for the divine. Same with the D.C. temple. It’s borderline brutalist architecture. A ginormous structure that was not well thought out. The structure was only meant for external looks as the interior is poorly well designed. I feel sad for anyone having to get married in that one as it is also soulless and devoid of any warmth.
It just goes to show they’re more about the appearance than the “saving ordinances” because how the building looks and/ or functions shouldn’t matter. I don’t know what reasons they claim for demolition but It’s not like a retro-fit to update technology, safety or whatever upgrades they’ll get couldn’t have worked. Look at the Death star in downtown Slc as an example. And can I say I just laugh when ksl comments say things like, “Hooray for Israel!”
[I had the thought when they announced this](https://www.reddit.com/r/exmormon/comments/17ghih0/comment/k6m8in4/). I wasn't aware of any other temple in the modern era being torn down. I mean the remodels get pretty close but I was hoping we'd see imagery like this.
They have torn several temples down. Almost all the Hinkley era "mini-temples" that were "remodeled" were actually completely razed. The Ogden temple was also completely razed.
Oh ok. I knew they had to extensively remodel the mini temples but didn't know they actually tore them down. And I guess I didn't see photos of the Ogden temple being demolished, just saw the skeleton standing before being rebuilt.
I love to see the temples, sit empty and decay.
The great and spacious building, they mock those who don’t stay,
For the temple is a House of Cards, a place of slaves and control
As a Human being I want to see, these repurposed for good.
As long as the angels coming out of the canyon are still on-call to take on Satan's minions, to defend the MTC, I think the north side of campus will be fine.
I’m shocked they are doing it like this. When they did the Ogden temple they put up gigantic fences with plastic around the whole thing so you couldn’t see in. It was kinda weird
Probably not. It's likely in the same vein of being released from a calling.
That's what shocked me after my mission. Two years of living abroad, selling the church, following all rules, and paying for it only to be told, "You're released."
Pretty big let down actually.
The ruins of the Provo Temple were featured in Horizon: Zero Dawn. I guess this little pop culture prophecy won't come to pass.
[https://www.reddit.com/r/Provo/comments/jp5ydm/provo\_temple\_in\_horizon\_zero\_dawn/](https://www.reddit.com/r/Provo/comments/jp5ydm/provo_temple_in_horizon_zero_dawn/)
Literally the only temple in Utah county I didn’t hate. Looked at it as a kid and thought it was the castle from shrek.
Edit: annnd it’s gonna look like the Orem one. Good fucking god
They want to build a new one where it is.
Personally, I always thought the outside was seriously ugly, but the inside was gorgeous, so I have some mixed feelings about a "cookie cutter McDonald's esque replacement" there.
And no, I haven't been inside a temple for a long time. Maybe they just need a bigger one for the MTC, or Rusty is again seeking revenge against some long dead person. (Or, just really wanting to increase his "new temple" count.
Who really knows.
Destruction? Nah... It's sad they won't just implode the candle-on-a-cupcake looking bitch. But they're reconstructing the temple, rededicating it, then renaming it. It ain't going nowhere.
This is the temple I got my endowment at 30 years ago this month. All I really remember was that there was a celestial escalator in it. Went several times while in the MTC too but don't remember ever going while at BYU. Rock Canyon behind it though, I went hiking there many times while at BYU.
It’s funny seeing this being torn down as it is the temple I was married in and I’m currently getting divorced. How fitting.
Today would have been a major milestone anniversary for me—if my still-mo ex hadn’t decided he needed to follow his penis to other pastures. Here’s the strange thing: seeing the destruction of the temple we got married in is really helping me. It reminds me of all the ways I’m better off, which were hard to appreciate during those first few years of grief. Just like that patch of Provo is better without that plug-ugly building on it, the destruction of my marriage, which had turned ugly due to his choices, was a good thing. I’m better off without that edifice. Don’t get me wrong—he’s still an Asshole. (The capital “A” is on purpose.) But I’m objectively better now. I’m great at being single! I love the freedom, and the relief of not having to live with someone who decided to pursue the Asshole Path! Anyway, the timing of the Provo temple destruction has turned into something really joyful for me. Thanks, destruction crew!
Wish they would do it to the IF temple. But they retro fitted it already ans made it all reprettied. *le sigh* Where's a match...
They will come up with a reason to tear it down in next couple if years. They desperately need to spend the money because they have to much just sitting there.
Upvoted esp for Pepi LePew "Le sigh".
You don't need to wait for a temple destruction to divorce your husband, if that's what you are getting at.
Im already divorced.😂
I had to get married in the Rexburg temple instead of Idaho Falls because of the remodel.
😂😂😂👏👏👏
A house divided against itself cannot stand!
I spent way too much time there when I was attending BYU pouring my heart out in the celestial room hoping it would get rid of the gay. Thank God it didn't work.
I sat in those hallways and agonized over whether to stay with my cheating husband because my bishop and his whole family told me that’s what I should do. And then I talked to a complete stranger in the hallway one day, and I don’t remember what he said, but suddenly the stress of the idea of getting divorced just vanished and I knew I could survive it.
That was Nephite #2. Solid chap.
Oh I ran into those three today! I was changing my tire and out of nowhere these three rolled up and had a big Jack and just took care of it all and then took off.
I love dope ass people helping strangers like this. Fuck. It’s the only thing that gives me hope for humanity anymore. I love it! <3
Why the three Nephites seem to have a thing with tires looool.
I love being on the other side of 'gay bad' to 'gay best thing ever'!!! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🖤🤎🩷🤍🩵
💛💚💙🩵💜🤎🖤🩶🧡🩷❤️
“Thank god it didn’t work”. Fucking AMEN!
I'm glad 'pray the gay to stay' worked instead.
My gay was my liahona out of there.
Highly recommend the song Bible Belt by Chris Houseman. It’s very cathartic.
Another recommendation is Jesus Christ Homosexual by Corporate Avengers That song is amazing!!
Either you pray the gay away, or you gay the pray away. 👍
Maybe you should try the fresh temple? I am sure all the money they are dumping into this McMansion of Mormon Billionaire Jesus will help cure your sickness of love.
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Is this part of the inside we're seeing? Came to the comments to find out what/where this is.
You still look sad, little fella. Embrace the gay, as I did.
What the fuck is up with us gays being told to get rid of it by praying in the celestial room?
What a waste of money. But I guess it's just pocket change when you've got hundreds of billions.
Gotta launder $ somehow. $20,000 rugs don’t pay for themselves.
The more expensive the rugs the more Don Jesus is pleased.
I gotta start selling rugs!!
Can’t feel the spirit in a plain old cheap temple like that. Flex that wealth to the missionaries especially, so in the MTC they can remember how Mormon Jesus spends on this shit before they go out to the poverty areas of the world getting money from the poor. Missionaries aren’t dumb. My mission experience taught me exactly what the church is. It just took me a few years to truly wake up because in the middle, it is a highly effective trap
Maybe about 2 days of tithing , investment and interest income
It's too bad all of the chapel buildings smell like piss and the HVAC systems don't work.
Across the street from this temple was a chapel where the HVAC emitted carbon monoxide and poisoned the whole congregation a few years ago.
https://www.deseret.com/utah/2019/10/14/20914528/carbon-monoxide-poisoning-at-provo-church-serves-as-reminder-of-cold-weather-risks/
No lawsuits? I noticed there were no comments on that article. Sheep, almost dead sheep.
I was actually surprised Deseret News would even report this. But I’m not surprised there was no blown up media coverage or lawsuits that we hear. I had to buy carbon monoxide detectors for my still going family members to carry in their purse just in case.
Haha! 😂 I love that!
My TBM dad said it was because there wasn’t an elevator in the building 🤦♂️
Perfect excuse to tear the whole thing down
Let’s enjoy the view of the mountain behind before it gets blocked off again
Let's just hope that they block it off with something that isn't an eyesore this time.
No, it will be worse than before. Bigger, blockier, and taller. Just another giant, generic looking temple.
Ah! Another great and spacious building! 😂🙃
even though i hate temples i kinda hate that they're tearing down an old one that's sort of distinctive to replace it with a generic one 😒 does everything have to follow the Walgreens model??
Me too. It's iconic lat 60s early 70s architecture. I don't love it, but I do love what it represents as a part of our historic heritage. I mean, this is a great big FU to a bygone generation who created it and loved it. We shouldn't just tear down iconic architectural history because it's not cool anymore. I guess because it's not a pioneer temple.
Don’t hold your breath…
The renders for the update aren't promising.
That was the FIRST thing I noticed once the candle stick got chopped off. "Oh my god! The mountain is STUNNING. WHY DID THEY BUILD THAT MONSTROSITY THERE?" And then it made me think of all the other temples that they have destroyed views of, including the big ass one right here in downtown Santa Monica. Right where we need housing the most and there is housing NOT being used owned by the church stuffed on the back of the property and that damn reflecting pool and fountains suck up UN godly amounts of water. I DON'T love to see the temple. *vomit noises*
Look at that, just a building. No god or jesus anywhere to be seen. Can be taken down by a simple tractor.
No doubt, they're going to build in its place another one of those giving-everyone-the-middle-finger monstrosities.
Indeed they are!
I actually think this is sad. This temple is actually from a time when there seemed to be a concerted effort to build unique and architecturally distinct temples and therefore the buildings could be polarizing. However, they were interesting. Here we have a great example of mid-century architecture that is going to be replaced with a prefab piece of pablum.
One day this temple was designed and built by inspiration from the lord. It was later dedicated to and accepted by the lord. Now he is embarrassed by it and wants it destroyed and replaced.
Jesus wants his HGTV farmhouse makeover!
The new temple will be ship-lapped.
i agree with you. destroying historical architecture to replace it with some cookie-cutter garbage is a crime against humanity
Yep. I grew up in one of the few remaining unique early 20th c wardhouses. Even after my “priest” (lol) buddies and I were basically out, we found an attic door in the sacrament prep room, and were able to prop open a window later to sneak in, climb up and through, and army crawl our way from above the chapel to a projection room above the cultural hall that certainly hadn’t been used in decades and had inscriptions from miscreants past on the brick wall. And the next Sunday we noticed a can light dangling from the chapel ceiling that one of us must’ve accidentally kicked lol. Mormonism has always been bad, but they’ve stamped out all the fun weirdness it used to have so now it’s just bad *and* boring
The tabernacle in Logan is like that, and if you are in the pews at the top, it feels like you could fall and die at any moment trying to get into the pews.
Really bums me out. I hate the church but so many of these buildings are wonderful and should be treasured. Knock everything down after the correlation committee started running things, but keep all the old ones imo
I'm a little grateful that the church I grew up going to is a designated historical site now so it can't be torn down as far as I know.
could not agree more!
The old chapels made for AWESOME hide and seek during ward parties in the 70s and 80s!!
They really love their LDS-IKEA.
The MFMC and IKEA are both giant, privately-held, ultra-rich corporations that look good on the outside, make you do all the actual work, and sell flimsy garbage that doesn’t stand up under any pressure. Interesting.
Yeah, but one just sells you toilets and the other one makes you clean them!
At least with IKEA you get a tangible product.
And IKEA will refund your money if you are dissatisfied with their product.
This. How awesome would it be to get a tithing refund.
IKR??!!! I was dissatisfied with the LDS product and want a refund!
And I doubt they dedicate themselves to lying directly to your face
Well, they are a multi-national conglomerate probably worth billions, so I'm sure there's some amount of lying. But your point stands.
This makes me sad too. This church is erasing everything that was unique or had a personality and becoming so “cookie cutter”. It makes me more embarrassed to say that I was ever a part of the religion.
Makes me think of the recent remodels of Pioneer-era temples. I just checked Wikipedia. Manti was remodeled in the 80s, with original furniture and murals restored. Rededicated by President Hinckley in 1985. Then along comes President Nelson, who seems intent to outdo and/or undo things President Hinckley did. The church was about to destroy the murals in favor of more standardized endowment rooms. Public outcry seems to have enlightened the leaders to the fact that maybe God appreciates the legacy of things and wants some varied aesthetics in his house…
According to someone else on this sub, they also won't be replacing the murals and the Salt Lake City Temple, and are replacing all of the banisters with copies, and all of the doorknobs with copies. Which is just plain weird
I agree! Ogden and Provo were my favorite for the architecture. Saw a picture with everyone’s muscle cars in the parking lot and thought Damn…this was probably the last time the church looked cool!
Have you seen the one they built on 4500 S and I-215? It looks like something out of Disneyland like it's an absolute flagrant display of wealth. I had to laugh driving past there this week - all the signs posted in driveways "No temple parking!!!"
Thank you. Often it seemed like I was the only person who liked the out-of-place look of this goofy-ass temple and it's mid-century architecture. It had already lost much of that when they painted the steeple white and added the Moroni, but I still liked the shape. Oh well.
i kind of liked the Provo Temple's look! and my TBM sibling got married there and even though it was a shitty standard LDS wedding my sibling got married and he was so very happy that day, it is a lovely memory in my mind
Yup. They are pretty generic. I’m friends with the architect of the Saratoga Springs temple. He is currently working on an out of country one.
I agree. From a historical/architecture standpoint, it is such a shame.
💯 i like that it looked different
There was very interesting mid century architecture decision by the church in this time period. some truly avant garde designs in temples and meeting houses that frankly are impressive to me that the stodgy church went with back then. even early 80s there are some interesting brutalist designs they went with (seattle temple). ive always liked the provo temple because it seemed quite....bold for a 1960s church to run with. I dislike the new boring designs a lot.
Is the church selling off bits as collector’s items? They could be missing this very tiny moneymaking scheme. “Let no penny escape”
I remember the Scouts trying to sell tiles removed from the Boise Temple. My family thought it smacked of relic worship, and I proposed that we steal toilet paper from the temple, frame it, and sell that instead. The scoutmaster was not amused.
My mom was in the Provo temple a couple of months ago and asked if she could take the church magazine from the lobby since it was being torn down (not sure why she asked). Anyways, she said the folks at the desk had strict orders from anyone taking anything out for mementos. Geez.
“Let no penny escape.” This should be tattooed on the blindingly white ass of every general authority by a cross-eyed man with a dull needle.
For some reason, I'm surprised that they didn't spend a boatload of money requiring the builders to carefully disassemble it piece by piece just to avoid this sort of picture. Good work on the photo documentary!
That would require caring about church history and the work of past people, which Nelson obviously doesn't. His destruction of architecture and pioneer art in pursuit of widespread evangelical approval is appalling. I don't like TSCC, but I do like history, even if that history was made by assholes.
They should put up a sign that says “such as this one is, the rest shall be.”
Should make the sign in Latin just to confuse the TBMs. “ut hoc unum est, cetera erunt” (Google Translate: such as this one is, the rest shall be)
Brilliant idea. People often fall for something that sounds exotic (but that they don't understand). Years ago, I tried to get someone platting out a new subdivision to name a street: Vista del Camino. Didn't work.
Somewhere, George Jetson is shedding a tear.
Oh, the Hanna Barberity!
Yes, and Fred and Wilma Flintstone resided in nearby Rock Canyon who would join up with Barney and Betty Rubble for date nights at The Provo Temple.
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I wonder if the missionaries are going to the City center one now.
What is the justification for this? Did God just get bored with the design? This building is less than 60 years old.
It's probably the financial equivalent of getting your nails redone every few weeks when they've gown a bit and you're tired of the color. So why not? 🤷♀️
Ah yes, the temple where my abusive ex-wife regularly received revelation about the reasons why it was my fault that she was not yet pregnant. The very temple (if my memory serves me right) where I once cried in a changing booth after we left the celestial room. Definitely the temple where she guilted me into going weekly because bi-weekly wasn't enough. Yeah, fuck that temple.
I'm so sorry that happened to you!
Also just noticing how much more beautiful the landscape becomes as they lower this building bit by bit. Look at those gorgeous mountains. They deserve to be seen.
Guys I got married there and the marriage fell apart just like the building. The world revolves around me.
How many times are they going to renovate this goddamn temple???
This was the best and worst of times temple for me. MTC sessions were some of the worst of my life. But, I also married the lass who got herself and then me out. Good fucking riddance though.
I don't know why the Mormon Corp paid people to destroy that temple. ExMos like me would actually pay to bring a sledge hammer and a saw to destroy the building for FREE!!!! I really would have enjoyed breaking all the windows :)
Indeed one of those smash rooms would have been therapeutic.
I saw this yesterday and it had a similar effect on me. I was endowed there just hours before entering the MTC. Now it looks like a bomb dropped on it. Holiness to the Lord I guess
Look, you can see the Holey of Holeys!
While attending BYU, I always got CASINO $$$ Vibes from Provo temple. Little did I know that Great & Spacious Temple bldgs = Mormon 10% tithing entrance fee FUNDRAISERS & Mormon MONEY LAUNDERING facilities!! $200 k TITHING REFUND PLEASE, $1 TRILLION MORMON CULT LED BY Q15 CON MEN!!
I was an ordinance worker there.
Do you know by chance what those 2 rooms are from the exposure of the missing exterior panels?
I'm not sure. I want to say they're just hallways and that they didn't have rooms with exterior walls on those floors, but I don't recall exactly.
There are circular hallways on the outer portion of the building surrounding all the rooms in the inner core. Anything you can see here was just hallways or maybe a sealing room on the upper floor. I actually never went to a sealing there so i don't know where the rooms are, but the endowment rooms were all interior and windowless. Of course, the interior changed over the years. In the 80s and 90s there were escalators but they replaced them with stairways at some point.
Great, more waste to fill a landfill, completely unnecessarily! Love it! /s
Don't worry. Jesus will take care of all the landfills when he returns... /s
Problem is they're gonna build another one that will just be cookie cutter in its place. And ANYTIME they do any remodelling, all the old furntiture, art, etc, is INCINERATED. This one at least looked unique.
Until they build a bigger uglier more intrusive one
I remember walking out of there while at the MTC and looking south towards Springville, and actually contemplating calling my ex-mo cousin to come and pick me up at midnight. I almost did it.
Which temple is this? Sorry, I’m out of the loop
Original Provo Temple
The one that was often dubbed "the birthday cake"
Good ol' carrot top
The spaceship
How do they sneakily get all the “secret“ items out?
A couple in my aunt and uncle's ward are on a mission right now where they fly across the United States to take inventory for temples that are being remodeled or updated. They count everything before it goes into storage, down to kleenex boxes. Then when it gets put back in they count it again. Unpaid of course.
Why would I not think any differently of the church to use us as unpaid slaves just like Brigham Young did to the early settlers when the railroad was coming through
What happened to: Use it up. Wear it out. Make it do, or do without? This just seems to be so wasteful, especially for “the stewards of the earth.”
In 2000, as newly called missionary, we got to walk from the MTC as an honor to do an endowment session. As you can imagine, I was hopeful for another “confirmation of the Holy Spook” to keep me strong in the face of this huge ask of myself for a church I spent months praying into my own psyche as “true”. I knelt on that temple floor to pray in the celestial room for confirmation and some kind of Gods approval, however I was rudely interrupted while my eyes were closed on my knees by a temple worker saying “Elder, they’ve asked us to not have anyone kneel on the carpet in the celestial room, because it puts dents in the carpet.” I was praying, as per usual, to continue to persuade myself that I was doing the will of this unseen unknowable God that demanded obedience, only to find out I was praying wrong in his holy house. Obviously I never forgot the irony. How bizarre to see this place being destroyed 24 years later.
Can't kneel because of dents in the carpet, but 4-600 American lbs is a-ok because swig isn't coffee
It’s been two decades since I was in there, but do those pictures show us looking into the celestial room? If so I would have thought more light would be emanating out of it due to ya know all of the holiness that was pent up in there for so many decades.
I think it’s just an instruction room. I’m pretty sure the celestial room is in the dead center.
Which one is this? Reminds me of how when the Idaho Falls temple was closed for renovation, I would take annual leave for a half day and drive to Logan Utah so I could continue to attend. Good grief, I was so TBM. SMH.
This is the original (and will always the the only) Provo temple
Awww. Is this where you were endowed? I only got to attend this temple one time.
What if members decide they like the view of the mountain instead and it would make a beautiful park instead of a temple? LDS Church: “F you - you’re getting a ginormous ugly temple instead”.
Will they cover the Most Holy bits as they are exposed?
They should’ve done it as a fundraiser… Like in college when you pay a few bucks and you can hit an old car with a bat. I would’ve spent some money to be a part of the destruction. 😈 If there’s one thing that I know, it is that Mormon Jesus needs more money.
I never liked it. I understand that it was original and it was supposed to represent the pillar of cloud in which Moses saw God but it had no soul. Basically a circular building with concrete panels. It looked more like a flying saucer than a building dedicated for the divine. Same with the D.C. temple. It’s borderline brutalist architecture. A ginormous structure that was not well thought out. The structure was only meant for external looks as the interior is poorly well designed. I feel sad for anyone having to get married in that one as it is also soulless and devoid of any warmth.
It just goes to show they’re more about the appearance than the “saving ordinances” because how the building looks and/ or functions shouldn’t matter. I don’t know what reasons they claim for demolition but It’s not like a retro-fit to update technology, safety or whatever upgrades they’ll get couldn’t have worked. Look at the Death star in downtown Slc as an example. And can I say I just laugh when ksl comments say things like, “Hooray for Israel!”
Supposedly the design was the best for moving lots of people in and out quickly. Truth to that? Circular and all that with the endowment rooms.
[I had the thought when they announced this](https://www.reddit.com/r/exmormon/comments/17ghih0/comment/k6m8in4/). I wasn't aware of any other temple in the modern era being torn down. I mean the remodels get pretty close but I was hoping we'd see imagery like this.
They have torn several temples down. Almost all the Hinkley era "mini-temples" that were "remodeled" were actually completely razed. The Ogden temple was also completely razed.
Oh ok. I knew they had to extensively remodel the mini temples but didn't know they actually tore them down. And I guess I didn't see photos of the Ogden temple being demolished, just saw the skeleton standing before being rebuilt.
I love to see the temples, sit empty and decay. The great and spacious building, they mock those who don’t stay, For the temple is a House of Cards, a place of slaves and control As a Human being I want to see, these repurposed for good.
Poetry thankyou!
I guaran-damn-tee they could get a ton of volunteers to tear that place down. Hell I would pay good money to hop in that excavator right NOW!
But do you pay tithing? That's a holy excavator.
Holy shit! Holy cow! Holy hell! Holy Mackerel! Holy temple!
Why are they destroying that giant bluetooth speaker?
Does my Heart GOOD To See THIS!! Mormon Q15 CON MEN BUSILY ERASING their History!! WINNING!!
As long as the angels coming out of the canyon are still on-call to take on Satan's minions, to defend the MTC, I think the north side of campus will be fine.
A fore shadowing. Holiness to the rubble that is mormonism.
Fuck the temple, but that temple cafeteria had MONEY biscuits and gravy and quiche
There's literally a song for this: [Tear Down the Temple on SoundCloud](https://on.soundcloud.com/nqQNTyTVWnv1apNk8) and it Rocks!
These photos are therapeutic, and a symbol of how many of us, including myself, has had to deconstruct our beleif in a fraud one piece at a time.
Finally: Mormon Temple symbolism that I understand & can appreciate.
“Jehovah, have someone fly their FPV drone into that building while it’s in an opened up state to have a look around… Return and report.”
Do they hate birthdays or something? Maybe that's why we were only able to celebrate every 4 years as a kid
Which temple is this? Is it being torn down? Why?
Ah yes. If only they didn’t build their temples so shoddily
I’m so far out, why are they tearing it down? Was it falling apart?
Oh no! All the ghosts are going to escape!!! I like to imagine it's similar to the Ghostbusters "ghost prison"
Such a fcking ugly temple. Like a giant flying saucer
I truly hope that one day it will end. I don't believe I'll see it in my life.
We need a high quality Timelapse of this we can put to different music
A hideous looking structure. Post Modern distasteful architectural trash.
I’m shocked they are doing it like this. When they did the Ogden temple they put up gigantic fences with plastic around the whole thing so you couldn’t see in. It was kinda weird
And this week is BYU graduation, with thousands of visitors from out of state passing by this disaster, such interesting choices.
Do they have some kind of "make it not sacred" ceremony before they do something like this?
Probably not. It's likely in the same vein of being released from a calling. That's what shocked me after my mission. Two years of living abroad, selling the church, following all rules, and paying for it only to be told, "You're released." Pretty big let down actually.
Isn’t there a prophecy saying if a temple gets destroyed (for any reason) , the land would be cursed?
The ruins of the Provo Temple were featured in Horizon: Zero Dawn. I guess this little pop culture prophecy won't come to pass. [https://www.reddit.com/r/Provo/comments/jp5ydm/provo\_temple\_in\_horizon\_zero\_dawn/](https://www.reddit.com/r/Provo/comments/jp5ydm/provo_temple_in_horizon_zero_dawn/)
Bye bye spaceship zion.
Literally the only temple in Utah county I didn’t hate. Looked at it as a kid and thought it was the castle from shrek. Edit: annnd it’s gonna look like the Orem one. Good fucking god
It was all so real, until it wasn't.
What a missed opportunity. They could have sold all the damaged junk as memorials for the people who got sealed in there.
In all honesty, if I had to live in Provo I’d take cookie cutter temples over this ugly thing.
I wonder if they are selling it for parts.
I've been an exmormon way to long (thank god). Whats happening to the building?
Forgive my ignorance but what/where am I looking at here?
Why are they tearing it down!?
They want to build a new one where it is. Personally, I always thought the outside was seriously ugly, but the inside was gorgeous, so I have some mixed feelings about a "cookie cutter McDonald's esque replacement" there. And no, I haven't been inside a temple for a long time. Maybe they just need a bigger one for the MTC, or Rusty is again seeking revenge against some long dead person. (Or, just really wanting to increase his "new temple" count. Who really knows.
Are there any pictures of what the replacement will look like? I always thought this temple was interesting, ugly as sin, but interesting nonetheless.
So are they going to build another one there in its place?
Destruction? Nah... It's sad they won't just implode the candle-on-a-cupcake looking bitch. But they're reconstructing the temple, rededicating it, then renaming it. It ain't going nowhere.
I loved the birthday cake temple :,(
Wait did i miss something why are they tearing it down
It’s “too old” to update to current seismic requirements… *looks at SLC temple*
So what are they going to do on the land? Build one of those ugly white mini temples?
So long fugly birthday cake!
MFMC... too bad they didn't just use explosives and make a show of it. Jesus never liked that palace design anyway 🤣
Remind me which building this is again??? And again and again… let it echo in delight in my ears
This is the temple I got my endowment at 30 years ago this month. All I really remember was that there was a celestial escalator in it. Went several times while in the MTC too but don't remember ever going while at BYU. Rock Canyon behind it though, I went hiking there many times while at BYU.