Open House Begins for Syracuse Utah Temple

The public open house for the Syracuse Utah Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints begins this week. 

Media attended a news conference and toured the temple on Wednesday, May 7, 2025. Those participating in the event included Elder Kevin R. Duncan, Executive Director of the Temple Department, and Sister Kristin M. Yee, Second Counselor in the Relief Society General Presidency.

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“It’s not really about the building itself, although it’s a beautiful building, it’s about the promises we make in the house of the Lord and what we feel,” said Elder Duncan. “We invite everybody to come and feel that for themselves.”

“It’s a privilege, always, to testify about Jesus Christ and our Heavenly Father and Their love for Their children, and we pray that they might feel the peace and the help that He offers them,” said Sister Yee.

Jamie Bott, a ninth grader who lives nearby, is excited for this new opportunity to serve in a temple close to home. “For me, it’s just a little piece of heaven on earth,” she said. “It’s such a place of peace and comfort and I always am able to feel Christ’s love for me so strongly in the temple.”

Public Open House

Invited guests will tour the temple on Thursday, May 8, and Friday, May 9, 2025. A public open house for the temple will run from Saturday, May 10, through Saturday, May 31, excluding Sundays.

There is no cost to attend the open house. Reservations are recommended and can be made here.

The temple will be dedicated in one session on Sunday, June 8, 2025. The dedicatory session will be broadcast to all units in the temple district.

About the Syracuse Utah Temple

The Syracuse Utah Temple was announced in April 2020 by Church President Russell M. Nelson.

Ground was broken for the temple on June 12, 2021. Elder Duncan presided over the event and offered a dedicatory prayer on the site. The location of this temple has a special connection to him and his family.

“I think of my great grandfather, who was the first bishop of Syracuse,” Elder Duncan said. “And I'm thinking, how would he feel right now? He's happy because his posterity has access to [temple] ordinances and they can come to the temple so much more frequently.”

This will be the first temple to be dedicated with two baptismal fonts. “And the reason for that is the high concentration of members and especially high concentration of youth,” Elder Duncan explained. “Now they can come more frequently.” 

“[The Lord] is helping this generation, and all of us, come more often, not just because we can, but [because] we need it,” said Sister Yee.

The three-story temple, which is approximately 90,000 square feet, now stands on a 12-acre site at 1098 South 2500 West, Syracuse, UT 84075.

The temple’s design motifs include representations of the local flora around the Great Salt Lake and nearby wetlands. The transitioning greens, blues and yellows in the art glass represent the reflections of the lake, as this community is considered the “Gateway to Antelope Island.”

Different shades of blues, greens, golds, yellows and reds reflect the indigenous plants in the Syracuse area, such as the snowball sand verbena, desert paintbrush, common cattail and reeds.

Utah, the Church’s world headquarters, is home to more than 2.2 million Latter-day Saints, approximately two-thirds of the state’s population of 3.5 million people. Once dedicated, the temple in Syracuse will be the 22nd temple in operation in Utah.

Temples currently in operation in the state are found in American Fork (Mount Timpanogos), Bountiful, Brigham City, Cedar City, Draper, Layton, Logan, Manti, Monticello, Ogden, Orem, Payson, Provo (Provo City Center), Saratoga Springs, South Jordan (Jordan River and Oquirrh Mountain), St. George (Red Cliffs and St. George), Taylorsville, Tooele (Deseret Peak) and Vernal. New temples under construction in Utah are in Ephraim, Heber Valley, Lindon and Smithfield. The Provo Utah Rock Canyon Temple and Salt Lake Temple are currently under renovation. Temples in Lehi, Price and West Jordan were announced in 2024. A temple in Spanish Fork was announced in April 2025.