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A concrete slab is laid around the perimeter of the temple to create a clean and level working surface during the multiyear renovation of the temple in Salt Lake City, Utah, March 2023.
Temple Square renovation update: Salt Lake Temple’s estimated completion date amended to 2026
By Scott Taylor
Unexpected challenges, setbacks move anticipated completion from previously announced 2025 date.
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Salt Lake Temple and Temple Square renovation: Revisiting 2022 progress and projecting 2023 efforts
By Scott Taylor
The Church also provided recent photos, video and link detailing the multiyear project, its processes and its progress.
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Renovations, closures begin in 2023 for Beehive House, Lion House and Joseph Smith Memorial Building
By Scott Taylor
Closures and renovations for three historic buildings on Temple Square in Salt Lake City are slated for 2023.
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Revisiting 2022’s highlights so far of Salt Lake Temple and Temple Square renovation project
By Scott Taylor
The Salt Lake Temple’s north addition and south-end guest building are taking shape, with plazas getting extreme makeovers.
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Temple Square renovation update: Pavilions, underground building to provide new guest experience
By Scott Taylor
Construction is underway where the South Visitors’ Center once stood.
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What is ‘jack and bore’ and how is it holding up the 187-million-pound Salt Lake Temple?
By Scott Taylor
Part of the seismic upgrade, crews dig by hand under the foundation so 96 pipes 4 feet round and 20-40 feet long can be inserted.
President Russell M. Nelson of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints tours the Salt Lake Utah Temple in Salt Lake City on Saturday, May 22, 2021.
Sarah Jane Weaver: How President Russell M. Nelson made the Salt Lake Temple renovation relevant worldwide
By Sarah Jane Weaver
View from the Salt Lake Temple facing the Wasatch Mountains to the east. The Church Office Building tower and Relief Society Building can be seen on the left with the Joseph Smith Memorial Building on the right. The round flat space at the bottom marks where the reflecting pool once stood on the Main Street Plaza, Salt Lake City, May 2022.
A look at the latest on the Temple Square renovation project in 10 photos
By Scott Taylor
Workers continue to construct the Saratoga Springs’ Utah temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Friday, March 11, 2022.
Photos: See 10 temples in Utah under construction or renovation
By Scott Taylor
A crew member installs snow melt conduit on the Church Office Building plaza before the final layer of the concrete walkway is poured on top, Salt Lake City, Utah, March 2022.
Latest Temple Square renovation update: Main Street Plaza to close in April
By Scott Taylor
President Russell M. Nelson of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints tours the Salt Lake Temple in Salt Lake City on Saturday, May 22, 2021.
A view of Salt Lake Temple, Temple Square renovations from those overseeing the project
By Scott Taylor
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Episode 70: The expansiveness of the Salt Lake Temple renovation project, with Brent Roberts and Andy Kirby
By Sarah Jane Weaver
Two giant cranes hover over the Salt Lake Temple renovation project in June 2021. The time-saving cranes are responsible for transporting most of the heavy equipment or material on-site.
Latest Temple Square renovations: A view from above with tower crane operators
By Scott Taylor
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Temples in 2021: Emphasis not just on edifices themselves but work of salvation going on inside
By Scott Taylor
Crews prepare a clean and level working surface before pouring new structural concrete over a period of about eight to 10 hours during the Temple Square renovation project, on Dec. 1, 2021.
Temple Square renovation update: Pouring concrete for the addition, vertical drilling from the roof and boring pipes below the foundation
By Christine Rappleye
The south and east sides of the Salt Lake Temple are covered by scaffolding and surrounded by construction equipment as crews continue the renovation project started in 2019. The Tabernacle can be seen behind the temple on the left and the Conference Center can be seen in the background on the right, in Salt Lake City, Utah, October 2021.
First Presidency: Work underway on Salt Lake Temple renovation project ‘is truly remarkable’
By Sarah Jane Weaver
Crews demolish the North Visitors’ Center to make room for new gardens and restrooms as part of the Salt Lake Temple renovation project in Salt Lake City, November 2021.
Temple Square renovation update: North Visitors’ Center removed
By Scott Taylor
The south and east sides of the Salt Lake Temple are covered by scaffolding and surrounded by construction equipment as crews continue the renovation project started in 2019. The Tabernacle can be seen behind the temple on the left and the Conference Center can be seen in the background on the right, in Salt Lake City, Utah, October 2021.
Salt Lake Temple renovation update: Seismic and excavation work below, truss placement and stone removal from above
By Scott Taylor
President Russell M. Nelson inspects the Salt Lake Temple renovation project on Saturday, May 22, 2021.
How temple growth has fared during a pandemic that has limited work in and on temples
By Scott Taylor
President Russell M. Nelson of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints tours the Salt Lake Utah Temple in Salt Lake City on Saturday, May 22, 2021.
Video: After inspecting Salt Lake Temple renovation project, President Nelson says we should all be ‘worthy of the temple’
By Sarah Jane Weaver
President Russell M. Nelson of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints tours the Salt Lake Utah Temple in Salt Lake City on Saturday, May 22, 2021.
Watch the video and see photos of President Nelson’s inspection of the Salt Lake Temple
By Sydney Walker
President Russell M. Nelson, President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, speaks Oct. 3, 2021, during the Sunday morning session of the 191st Semiannual General Conference, which was held in the Conference Center in Salt Lake City. 
President Russell M. Nelson: ‘The Temple and Your Spiritual Foundation’
By Church News Staff
Forty-foot-long pipes are used to strengthen the temple’s foundation against earthquakes, Salt Lake City, Utah, September 2021.
Salt Lake Temple has begun ‘jack and bore’ process to strengthen its foundation. Here’s what that looks like
By Sydney Walker
Two giant cranes hover over the Salt Lake Temple renovation project in June 2021. The time-saving cranes are responsible for transporting most of the heavy equipment or material on-site.
See 29 photos, 1 video of latest Temple Square renovation efforts, from rooftop trusses to underground excavation
By Scott Taylor
A view of the Salt Lake Temple from the Church Office Building plaza shows continuing work on the Temple Square renovation project in Salt Lake City in July 2021
The latest look at the Temple Square renovation projects: A July 2021 update in 8 photos
By Scott Taylor
Further excavation is planned on the temple, which weighs more than 185 million pounds or 84,000 metric tons, Salt Lake City, June 2021.
Salt Lake Temple renovation update: New steel trusses on the roof and plaza fountain removed
By Christine Rappleye
The exterior of the North Visitors’ Center on Temple Square in Salt Lake City.
North Visitors’ Center to be demolished as part of Temple Square renovation and replaced with gardens
By Scott Taylor
Several square-headed nails that crews have found in the temple, according to an update in May 2021. These show some of the workmanship and materials used to build the Salt Lake Temple, which was finished in 1893. The longest nails are 6 inches (15 centimeters) long and show few signs of corrosion.
Salt Lake Temple renovation update: Finding square-headed nails; tunnel is nearly complete
By Christine Rappleye
A secant wall of alternating steel and concrete columns forming a retaining wall has been installed on three sides of the Salt Lake Temple in April 2021.
Salt Lake Temple renovation update: Tunnel drilling, installing supports and removing the plaza fountains
By Christine Rappleye
This portrait, titled “Leading Women of Zion” on the frame, was taken circa 1867 by Edward Martin. Left to right: Zina D.H. Young, Bathsheba W. Smith, Emily P. Young and Eliza R. Snow.
Jenny Reeder: Unity with Relief Society sisters past and present
By Jenny Reeder
“It is a strong power”: See what early Relief Society leaders, Eliza R. Snow and Emmeline B. Wells wrote and said about the organization’s anniversary.