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Nearly three years after its groundbreaking, construction work on the Heber Valley Utah Temple is now underway. The building of this first house of the Lord in Wasatch County, Utah, had originally been postponed.
Sam Penrod, spokesman for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, made the following statement on Aug. 26:
“Wasatch County issued a building permit to the Church nearly two years ago for the Heber Valley temple. While the permit allowed the Church to begin building the temple, construction was voluntarily postponed by the Church during the judicial review of a lawsuit filed against the county. On July 23, a district court judge ruled against the plaintiffs and dismissed the case. Construction work is now underway on the Church’s property to grade the site and install necessary infrastructure to support the future temple.”
The Heber Valley temple is one of 32 operating, under construction or announced houses of the Lord in Utah. It joins three other temples in the state currently under construction, in Lindon (since April 2022), Smithfield (June 2022) and Ephraim (August 2022).
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