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Location
Yuba City, California, at 1470 Butte House Road, on a 9.24-acre downtown site across the street from City Hall. It was announced as a Yuba City temple and took its current name in June 2019, from the Feather River about two miles to the east. That is why the caption reads Yuba City.

Temple Number
The Church's 184th operating temple, and the eighth built in California, after Los Angeles, Oakland, San Diego, Fresno, Redlands, Newport Beach, and Sacramento.

Announced
October 7, 2018, by President Russell M. Nelson, in his closing remarks at the October 2018 general conference.

Groundbreaking
July 18, 2020. Elder Paul H. Watkins, an Area Seventy, presided. The ceremony came four months after COVID-19 was declared a national emergency, and attendance was limited.

Dedicated
October 8, 2023, by Elder Ulisses Soares of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, in two sessions, at 10:00 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Both were broadcast to the congregations of the temple district.

Architecture
Neo-Byzantine, after a style found throughout the region, with a rectangular tower carrying an octagonal lantern and a domed cupola. Church architect Lanny Herron; general contractor Okland. Structural steel clad in cream precast concrete panels, 41,665 square feet, and 135 feet tall including the angel Moroni statue.

Ordinance Rooms
Four instruction rooms, three sealing rooms, one baptistry.

• The old Yuba City California Stake Center came down in 2020 to clear the site. Much of it went to other faiths and to local nonprofits and schools; Habitat for Humanity's ReStore took the solid-wood doors and cabinets. Stake president Steve Hammarstrom put it this way: "As one building was being torn down, all sorts of friendships were being built up."
• Go back to the early 1970s and the ground was a peach orchard owned by Mehar Tumber, a Sikh farmer. He wasn't looking to sell. When Church representatives asked about the land for a house of worship, he agreed. His daughter, Raji Tumber, remembered him saying of his new neighbors, "They're going to anchor us and keep us."
• Construction began July 20, 2020, two days after the groundbreaking.
• The public open house ran August 19 to September 9, 2023, excluding Sundays, and drew more than 55,000 people. Karm Bains, a Sikh member of the Sutter County Board of Supervisors, went through 11 times.

• The almond blossom is the main motif, a nod to the valley's orchards. In the arched windows of the second level and the ordinance rooms it appears in its natural colors against glass that fades from yellow to blue. Richardson Design Partnership designed the art glass with Holdman Studios.
• Most of the rest is local agriculture. The green carpet comes from the rice fields. The baptismal font railing abstracts tall reeds and the rice plant. The doors are cherry wood, because cherries are grown here, and the rugs carry wildflowers and the California poppy.
• The stone floors use six marbles: Crema Beige and Verde Lichen from Iran, Emperador Light and Vanilla from Turkey, Inca Gold from Pakistan, and Rojo Alicante from Spain.
• Inside, the references go back to early Christian architecture: vaulted ceilings in the ordinance rooms, a modified quatrefoil in the millwork, and a leaf pattern in the bride's room drawn from early Christian olive branches. Outside, olive trees about 100 years old were moved in from a local orchard, and the site's mature oak, redwood, and hackberry trees were kept.

• The dedication fell five years and one day after the announcement. Across the country, Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf dedicated the McAllen Texas Temple the same day.
• Yuba City had an established Portuguese community, and Elder Soares, born in Brazil, is of Portuguese descent. A man who grew up in Yuba City wrote to him about it, and Elder Soares invited him and his wife to the dedication as his guests.
• With Feather River, California reached 12 temples operating, under construction, or announced, more than any state except Utah.