From Deseret News archives:
New temple to rise in Salt Lake Valley
The Jordan River Temple, at 10200 South and 1300 West in South Jordan, was dedicated in November 1981, nearly 100 years after its predecessor in downtown Salt Lake City, and has since become one of the most heavily used of the faith's 119 operating temples.
Latter-day Saints believe the valley's other edifice, the Salt Lake Temple, was seen by President Brigham Young in a vision on its current site shortly after Mormon pioneers arrived in Utah, and its construction was announced on July 28, 1847. Constructed of granite blocks carved from a quarry at the mouth of Little Cottonwood Canyon and hauled 20 miles by ox cart, it took pioneer craftsmen more than 40 years to complete the structure.
It was dedicated by President Wilford Woodruff during 31 dedicatory sessions that ran from April 6-24, 1893. Including the annex, the building has 253,000 square feet of floor space, making it the largest LDS temple in the world.
Eleven temples now cover the state from Logan to St. George, and both the Bountiful and Mt. Timpanogos temples are within a 30-minute drive of the Salt Lake Valley. But booming home construction in the south end of the valley and projections of additional tens of thousands of residents locating there in the coming decades mean even greater demand for temple worship in Jordan River.
Latter-day Saints who live in the area know church officials added an additional parking lot for that temple several years ago, and both lots are nearly filled now on a regular basis.
Marsha Foreman of South Jordan remembers well the day in 1977 when then-church President Spencer W. Kimball came to tour the property that her parents, Alma and Helen Holt, donated to the LDS Church for construction of a temple. During the tour, she remembers his car got stuck in the mud.
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