A new, immersive Temple Square Visitors’ Center will open next month and provide a unique, interactive experience to millions who arrive at the centerpiece of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
The center will offer the public the first walk-through experience of a temple—complete with replicas of a celestial room and baptismal font—outside of the generally brief open houses held right after a temple is completed or renovated.
The visitors’ center also has a remarkable new, automated cutaway model of the temple. When you enter the room, the exterior walls of the temple model are up. After a brief introduction, the walls slowly drop to reveal the inside of the temple.
“The Church is an open church,” said President Dieter F. Uchtdorf, acting president of the church’s Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. “I think it is wonderful that we have now this openness of showing what is happening so no one can feel that we’re keeping anything in the hidden, because there’s nothing to hide.
“It’s only sacred, and we hope it will be honored and respected.”
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