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The First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has announced dedication and open house dates for the Red Cliffs Utah Temple.

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On Sunday, March 24, President Henry B. Eyring, second counselor in the First Presidency, will dedicate the Red Cliffs Temple — the second house of the Lord in St. George, in Utah’s southwest corner. The two sessions — scheduled for 10 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. MDT — will be broadcast to all units in the Red Cliffs Utah Temple district.

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A public open house is planned to run from Thursday, Feb. 1, through Saturday, March 2, excluding Sundays. A media day will be held Monday, Jan. 29, with invited guests also touring the temple Tuesday and Wednesday, Jan. 30-31.

The dedication and open house dates were first published Monday, Oct. 16, on ChurchofJesusChrist.org.

Background of the Red Cliffs Utah Temple

The house of the Lord originally was referred to as the Washington County Utah Temple when President Russell M. Nelson announced plans in October 2018 general conference for a second temple in southwestern Utah. The Washington County name was still in use when the site location — a 14-acre parcel northeast of 3000 East and 1580 South in southeastern St. George — and preliminary building size of three stories and approximately 88,000 square feet were published a year later, in November 2019.

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The First Presidency later approved the new name, the Red Cliffs Utah Temple, in June 2020.

Elder Jeffrey R. Holland of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles is a native of St. George, Utah and presided at the Nov. 7, 2020, groundbreaking. Joined there by his wife, the late Sister Patricia T. Holland, their three children and extended family members, Elder Holland said his thoughts of the future temple turned to “coming home” to the house of the Lord.

“As we talk about home, safety, peace and people who love you, that is a description of the temple — it is the safest, the most welcoming and reassuring place in the world,” he said.

Temples are filled with love and people who will “help and encourage you,” he added.

“The symbolism of our coming home is for me a nice metaphor of coming home to the house of the Lord and being surrounded by people on both sides of the veil — angels, living and deceased — who love you and watch out for you. That is really home. That is the safest, happiest, most family-oriented place in the world.”

The latest in a wave of Utah temples

The Red Cliffs temple joins the St. George Utah Temple as the city’s second house of the Lord. Following its recent extensive renovation effort, the St. George temple is currently in its public open-house phase prior to its Dec. 10 rededication.

The St. George Utah Temple is the Church’s oldest still-in-operation house of the Lord, first dedicated on April 6, 1877. It will be the first pioneer-era temple to be renovated and rededicated following President Nelson’s announcement in October 2018 general conference of plans to begin renovating and updating the Church’s pioneer-era temples.

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First settlers arrived in the area in 1855, when Church missionaries established a mission in the nearby community of Santa Clara.

Also, the Red Cliffs and St. George temples are two of a dozen temples in the state of Utah that will be dedicated or rededicated in the next several years. Utah is home of the Church’s world headquarters and nearly 2.2 million Latter-day Saints.

Utah’s currently operating temples are the Bountiful, Brigham City, Cedar City, Draper, Jordan River, Logan, Monticello, Mount Timpanogos, Ogden, Oquirrh Mountain, Payson, Provo, Provo City Center, Saratoga Springs and Vernal temples.

Like the St. George temple was, the Salt Lake and Manti temples are under renovation, with the reconstruction of the Provo Utah Temple to begin in late February 2024.

The new Orem Utah Temple is scheduled for its dedication on Jan. 21, 2024. Eight other Utah temples are under construction — Deseret Peak, Ephraim, Heber Valley, Layton, Lindon, Smithfield, Syracuse, and Taylorsville.