Bern Switzerland Temple
This post is about certain temples the Church built that changed the way they built and used temples. There are many traditions associated with temple building. When the Church built the temples mentioned below they established new traditions. Since early temples are the ones that began these traditions most of them are included.
Kirtland Temple
First temple of the restoration.
First temple with a dedicatory prayer.
First temple with an assembly room.
Nauvoo Temple
First temple with a baptistry.
First temple the Church performed an ordinance for the dead in (baptism).
First temple the Church performed endowments and sealings for the living in.
St. George Utah Temple
Oldest operating temple.
First temple the Church performed endowments and sealings for the dead in.
Last temple built with two assembly rooms.
First temple with murals in its instruction rooms (the original murals were on partition walls and the Church removed them during the 1937 remodel).
Logan Utah Temple
First temple the Church designed with four progressive instruction rooms.
Salt Lake Temple
First temple to have an Angel Moroni statue.
Only temple with a Holy of Holies.
Only temple with Church leadership meeting rooms inside.
Laie Hawaii Temple
(The Church began building Cardston Alberta first, adapted and simplified its design for Laie and dedicated Laie first).
First temple built away from Church headquarters.
First temple without a spire.
First temple without an assembly room.
Cardston Alberta Temple
First operating temple begun by someone other than Brigham Young.
First temple outside the United States.
First temple the Church rededicated after they renovated it.
Mesa Arizona Temple
First US temple built outside Utah.
First temple to present the endowment in a language other than English.
Idaho Falls Idaho Temple
First temple since Salt Lake to have a spire (all temples since have had spires until Paris France).
First temple retrofitted with an Angel Moroni statue.
Bern Switzerland Temple
First temple the Church designed for the stationary video presentation of the endowment.
First temple without murals in its instruction room.
First temple where English is not the primary language.
First temple to have a “Holiness to the Lord” inscription in a language other than English.
The change from the live to the video presentation of the endowment is perhaps the most significant change in the way temples are built and used.
Los Angeles California Temple
Last temple designed for the four stage live presentation of the endowment.
Oakland California Temple
First US temple designed for the stationary video presentation of the endowment.
First temple to have more than one video presentation instruction room.
Atlanta Georgia Temple
First temple with a fiberglass Angel Moroni statue, after which Angel Moroni statues became routine until Kinshasa Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Hong Kong China Temple
First temple in a multi-use building.
First (and so far only) temple to have its angel Moroni statue and spire removed.
St. Louis Missouri Temple
First temple the Church designed for the two stage video presentation of the endowment.
Vernal Utah Temple
First temple converted from an existing building.
Monticello Utah Temple
First of the small locally supported temples.
Columbia River Washington Temple
First temple with a mural in its two stage progression instruction room.
Nauvoo Illinois Temple
Only temple designed for the four stage video presentation of the endowment.
Only temple since Los Angeles with four progressive instruction rooms.
Paris France Temple
First temple since Mesa Arizona without a spire.
Kinshasa Democratic Republic of the Congo Temple
First temple since Tokyo Japan with a spire but no Angel Moroni statue, after which Angel Moroni statues have become increasingly uncommon.
Helena Montana Temple
First temple built using modular construction.
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