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 ...

the Celestial Room, a place with high ceilings and crystal chandeliers designed to reflect God’s presence; and sealing rooms, primarily used for marriage ceremonies, where two mirrors are ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Finish work on the two additional baptismal fonts and sealing rooms is also moving along steadily the church says. Finishing ...

The exhibit is available at history.lds.org, and shows how the temple has evolved from the Provo tabernacle, which burned in a fire in December 2010. The fire burned the 112-year-old tabernacle ...

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 ...