Pillar Temple Hoodie (Saratoga Springs)

Location
Saratoga Springs, Utah. The temple sits on a 22.71-acre site at 987 South Ensign Drive, on a bluff overlooking Utah Lake and the Wasatch Front in the city's Beacon Pointe area west of Redwood Road, at an elevation of 4,652 feet.

Temple Number
The Church's 179th dedicated temple. At its dedication it was the 18th temple in Utah and the fifth in Utah County.

Announced
April 2, 2017, by President Thomas S. Monson in his opening remarks at the Sunday morning session of the 187th Annual General Conference.

Groundbreaking
October 19, 2019. Elder Craig C. Christensen, General Authority Seventy and president of the Church's Utah Area, presided. Full construction began November 6, 2019.

Dedicated
August 13, 2023, by President Henry B. Eyring, Second Counselor in the First Presidency, in two sessions held at 10:00 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.

Architecture
Jacobsen Construction Company, architect and general contractor; Josh Stewart, Church architect; interior design by Naylor Wentworth Lund Architects. A three-story temple of 97,836 square feet rising 199 feet 9 inches to the top of the angel Moroni statue, with an exterior of eight-inch-thick beige precast concrete panels and a spire of glass fiber reinforced concrete.

Ordinance Rooms
Four instruction rooms, six sealing rooms, and a baptistry.

First Temple President
Lon W. Sorensen, with Marie Ellen Sorensen as matron. Their calls were announced in March 2022, ahead of the temple's 2023 opening.

• The temple stands on ground the Lehi Utah Stake began working as a Church welfare dry farm in the 1950s. The land produced wheat, feed corn, and alfalfa hay for the Church's welfare efforts before it was selected for the temple.
• The exterior concrete panels were cast in Salt Lake County by Forterra, and the spire was fabricated by Unlimited Design of Salt Lake City. The structure is steel with concrete shear walls and concrete floor slabs.
• A 21,000-square-foot meetinghouse was built on the same site as the temple.
• The public open house ran from April 15 to July 8, 2023, excluding Sundays, and drew 587,749 visitors.
• Between the 2017 announcement and the 2023 dedication, the number of stakes in the Saratoga Springs, Eagle Mountain, and west Lehi area grew by 36 percent.

• A decorative band wrapping the exterior carries a mountain design, and metal panels depict Utah Lake wetlands and snowy egrets. The egret is a logo of Saratoga Springs City.
• Holdman Studios of Lehi designed and manufactured the art glass, which references the Arts and Crafts movement and renders the colors and forms of Utah Lake and the Wasatch Mountains in purples, blues, greens, and golds.
• The baptistry art glass depicts snowy egrets among wetland grasses, with wave patterns representing Utah Lake at the base of the panels, gold silhouettes of birds above the water, and stylized Wasatch peaks.
• Stylized flowers in the decorative painting represent wildflowers found in the area, including the iris, daisy, and chrysanthemum, and painted lines of water and waves reference Utah Lake and the waters of the Wasatch Range.
• Millwork and doors are Sapele African mahogany in an Art Deco style, and bronze door hardware made by Luna Bronze of Provo repeats the grass, wetland, and water motifs drawn from the art glass.

• It was one of five temples announced on April 2, 2017, alongside temples for Brasília Brazil, the greater Manila Philippines area, Nairobi Kenya, and Pocatello Idaho.
• At its dedication, the Church noted it was the first of six temples scheduled for dedication within less than two months.
• Saratoga Springs incorporated in December 1997 with 167 residents, and its first stake was created September 16, 2001. By the temple's completion, northwestern Utah County counted 20 stakes in Lehi, 9 in Saratoga Springs, and 9 in Eagle Mountain.
• The temple's commissioned original artwork includes "Timpanogos from Across the Lake" by Bruce Brainard, "Evening Flight" by Adair Payne, and "Jordan River Sunrise" by Ken Stockton.