Temple #12

-The Logan Temple was the second temple built in Utah

-It is the only temple that was

 dedicated by President John Taylor

-The five-story temple was built entirely by volunteer 

labor over a seven-year period from 1877 to 1884

-The exterior walls of the temple were originally painted 

an off-white color to hid the dark, 

rough hewn lime stone. 

In the early 1900s, the paint was weather aways, 

uncovering the beautiful stone

 that characterizes the temple today. 

-In the late 1970s the interior the temple 

was completely gutted and rebuilt. 

The two year project replaced 

the progressive-style ordinance rooms 

-President Spencer W. Kimball, 

who rededicated the complete temple in 1979, 

regretted the need to reconstruct the interior 

because of the loss of pioneer craftsmanship