Open-house reservations available for the Orem Utah Temple

Reservations are now available online to tour the newly built Orem Utah Temple during the public open house, via reservations.churchofjesuschrist.org.

The public open house is from Friday, Oct. 27, through Saturday, Dec. 16, excluding Sundays and Thanksgiving Day. Reservations, which are recommended and available online, are from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.

The free tour begins with a short video overview, followed by a walking tour through the temple. Comfortable shoes and modest dress are recommended, and the temple is wheelchair accessible. Guests are asked to park in one of the designated off-site locations and shuttles will be available to take visitors to the temple. The tours for the Orem Utah Temple are expected to take about 40 minutes.

After a temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is built or has undergone an extensive renovation, it is opened for public tours prior to being dedicated or rededicated. After the dedication or rededication, Church members with temple recommends can enter to perform sacred ordinances.

Exterior rendering of the Orem Utah Temple, a tiered three-story temple with with a single, central spire.

The Orem temple will be dedicated on Sunday, Jan. 21, 2024, in two sessions, at 10 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. The dedicatory sessions will be broadcast to all meetinghouses in the Orem Utah Temple district.

A temple for Orem was one of eight locations announced on Oct. 5, 2019, by President Nelson during the Saturday evening women’s session of general conference.

The three-story, 70,000-square-foot edifice with a single attached central spire is on a 15.39-acre tract at 1471 S. Geneva Road in Orem, just west of Interstate 15 and Utah Valley University. The First Presidency announced the temple site on Dec. 11, 2019, and released the exterior rendering on June 24, 2020.

The groundbreaking was Sept. 5, 2020, and Elder Craig C. Christensen, a General Authority Seventy and then president of the Utah Area, presided at the ceremony.

The Orem Utah Temple is one of 14 temples in Utah that are under construction, being renovated or awaiting dedication or rededication.

Three temples — the Brasília Brazil Temple, Bentonville Arkansas Temple and the Moses Lake Washington Temple — were dedicated on Sept. 17. It was the first time in the Church’s history that three temples were dedicated on the same day.

The sun shines behind the single spire of the Orem Utah Temple.