The newly renovated Mormon Temple in the Oakland Hills section of Oakland, California, is having an open house for a few weeks. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints kept the temple ...

Visitors will have several weeks to go inside the temple for a guided tour of the main rooms, including the baptistry, an instruction room, a sealing room ... the purpose of LDS temples and ...

When a new Latter-day Saint temple ... the sealing room that confuses Heather the most. "I don't feel like you have to go into a building and kneel before someone, or at this altar with mirrors ...

They can be done in the chapel, cultural hall or any other room ... so-called Mormon corridor, where temples are plentiful and accessible, the one-year waiting period for a temple sealing after ...

Droves of the faithful and the curious visited the new Mormon ... temple. Original paintings and sculptures decorated the rooms. Visitors were led through a baptismal room, instructional rooms, a ...

One of the newest completed temples, located in the ... reflect God’s presence; and the sealing room, primarily used for marriage ceremonies, where two mirrors are situated on opposite sides ...

But it’s not an amusement park nor a storybook city—it’s the area’s Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, although you most likely know it as “the Mormon Temple” (a nickname ... said Gong. A ...

The more subdued Sealing Room is a space where couples get married. One of the most majestic spaces in the temple is the Celestial Room, a high-vaulted room for members to reflect and sit in peace.

(RNS) — Many tears have been shed, and much ink spilled, about gender inequalities in Mormon temple sealing rituals. In our religion, a man and a woman can be “sealed” together in a Latter ...