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Originally Posted by jedikermit
I like the Smithfield Temple, the faux-historicity works okay, I like that they're using pioneer-era architecture as inspiration.
But I very much dislike and even resent the erasure of both the Ogden and the Provo Temples. In the 1970s and 1980s the LDS Church demolished dozens of beautiful pioneer era chapels and tabernacles. Decades later it's seen as the crime against history and art and architecture that it is...I don't think destroying and replacing the Provo Temple is any different.
Religiously I don't have a dog in this fight anymore, but as someone interested in architectural preservation, I think it's an obscene choice.
*also* I hate the loss of the Moroni statues.
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I agree about the Provo temple. I bet that it had something to do with temple attendance and popular choices for weddings. Once the Provo City Center Temple was built, I bet the more popular choice for weddings was that one over the existing Provo temple. Probably similar with the Ogden Temple. I also bet that there was some reluctancy on redoing the Provo temple otherwise I think they would have done it at the same time as the Ogden temple.
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