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Mormon Temple To Open In Philly
Apparently, the Mormons announce temples every once in a while at a big ceremony, then don’t let you know anything about them ’til one day — wham! — there’s a new temple. But the Inky says they’re usually built in 3 to 5 years once they’re announced. The temple will be the first in the state. Mormonism — by far the greatest accomplishment of the Second Great Awakening — used to be the go-to religion for cheap jokes until L. Ron Hubbard and his team of high-priced fancy lawyers put Scientology tops in that category. Other than that, all I know is they apparently build temples very mysteriously. Mormons plan temple for Philadelphia [Inquirer] |
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Get out your seer stones, call Andy Reid, put on your skinny black ties: 
The construction isn’t really mysterious, it’s done from standard blueprints.
Alma
Sneaking a lens flare in there huh? You must be photoshop’s biggest fan now.
Mysterious? C’mon. The plans will be presented to the city council for approval. Lots of local residents will put up a big fuss about having such a monstrosity in their neighborhood, the church will revise the plans to soothe the neighbors, the temple will get built, and the neighbors will marvel at how their property values go up, and wonder what all the fuss was about.
There is nothing mysterious about the construction of a Mormon temple. A temple was just completed in my hometown of Twin Falls Idaho, and the community was involved every step of the way. At the completion of the temple’s construction, the public was invited to an open house, which lasted about a month. Over 100,000 people toured the building. The same will happen in Philadelphia.
I’m sure that the Church’s lack of comment right now is due to the fact that plans aren’t finalized.
I hope the new Mormon Temple includes bike lanes in it’s design.
Site announcement was made yesterday; it’ll be on Broad Street, across from the school headquarters. Most Mormon temples are built on large lots with spacious gardens, but this site is less than an acre. It will probably follow the pattern of temples built recently in Manhattan and Hong Kong—less ground space, 5-7 stories tall.
i’m so excited! Now we don’t have to drive all the way to washington d.c.