This week, the Yorba Linda California Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will open to the public.
The public can tour this sacred structure from April 30th to May 23rd. Admission is free, but parking is limited and online reservations are highly recommended.
A media day will also be held on April 27th, and invited guests will tour the building on April 28th and 29th.
The primary media personnel for the Media Day Tour are three General Authority Seventies. Elder Matthias Held. and Elder I. Raymond Egbo.
As Monday’s media day began, the church published photos of the interior and exterior of the Yorba Linda Temple on ChurchofJesusChrist.org.
After its dedication on June 7, the new temple will serve more than 21,500 Latter-day Saints in the Anaheim, Brea, Chino, Hacienda Heights, Orange, Santa Ana, Whittier, and Yorba Linda areas.
The 10 a.m. dedication session, which will be broadcast to all units in the temple area, will be rebroadcast the same day at 2 p.m. The leader who will chair the meeting has not yet been announced.
The Yorba Linda Temple will be dedicated on the same day as the Oregon Willamette Valley Temple, making both temples the Church’s 218th and 219th dedicated temples in the world.
These two Houses of the Lord were also announced on the same day, April 4, 2021. This means that from announcement to consecration, the timing will be the same, right down to that very moment.
Design and function
The 30,872-square-foot Yorba Linda Temple alludes to the area’s historic Spanish mission architecture. The exterior is constructed of structural steel and insulated concrete, clad in white Blanco Macaer marble and accented with pink and gray Rosa Pollino granite.
Decorative tiles and custom-patterned carpets are used on the floors throughout the temple, with a New Zealand wool rug in the bride’s room and additional area rugs elsewhere. The art glass pattern features palm elements and rondels inspired by Spanish Mission architecture, as well as custom gemstones and shades of green, blue, soft white, orange and yellow.
Crystal chandeliers and candelabras illuminate the building’s interior. The decorative light fixture combines crystal and golden metal, satin brass, plated stainless steel and acrylic lenses. Decorative paint incorporates colors and patterns inspired by local landscapes and architecture, and some areas are accented with 24-karat gold leaf.
The mill consists primarily of plain sliced Sapele veneer and plain sawn Sapele solids, with some areas containing painted poplar and maple mills. The temple, located at 17130 Bastantury Road in Yorba Linda, California, sits on 5.46 acres that the church has owned since the early 1980s.
About Yorba Linda Temple
The Yorba Linda temple will become California’s ninth devotional home to the Lord. It will be Orange County’s second temple, joining the Newport Beach California Temple located about 20 miles south.
On April 4, 2021, the late Church President Russell M. Nelson announced the establishment of this temple for Yorba Linda. It was one of 20 temple locations he identified in April 2021 general conference.
A groundbreaking ceremony was held on June 18, 2022 to begin the construction phase of the Yorba Linda Temple. Elder Mark A. Bragg, a General Authority Seventy and then president of the North America West Area, presided over the ceremony and offered the dedicatory prayer on site.
Citing Yorba Linda’s motto, “A Land of Gracious Living,” Elder Bragg said, “This house of the Lord will represent the very best in gracious living, and those who enter it will leave with a higher commitment to gracious living. . . . We are committed to being neighbors of gracious living.”
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In California, one of the western states of the United States located on the Pacific coast, 12 master homes are currently in operation, under construction, or under renovation.
Eight locations have already been dedicated: Los Angeles (1956), Oakland (1964), San Diego (1993), Fresno (2000), Redlands (2003), Newport Beach (2005), Sacramento (2006), and Feather River (2023).
Notably, the San Diego Temple will close in July 2023 for extensive renovations and is scheduled to be rededicated soon on August 23rd.
The Modesto California Temple is currently under construction since groundbreaking in October 2023. The final two Houses of the Lord, the Sunnyvale Temple and the Bakersfield Temple, are in the planning stages and both will be announced in April 2023.
Latter-day Saints first arrived in California, then Yerba Buena, on July 31, 1846. The company, with approximately 230 employees, tripled the population of Yerba Buena and helped create the prosperous city of San Francisco.
On July 6, 1851, the San Bernardino Stake was organized as the first stake in California. Eight California stakes were established in the 1930s, five in the 1940s, and 30 in the 1950s.
Currently, there are approximately 729,000 members of the Church living in approximately 1,100 wards and branches in California. This makes it the second-largest Latter-day Saint state in the United States after Utah.
California currently has 16 missions. On July 1, three more missions will be established across the province, headquartered in Oceanside and Victorville, Ont. These three cities are within a 90-mile radius of Yorba Linda.
Yorba Linda California Temple
Address: 17130 Bastanchury Road, Yorba Linda, CA 92886
Announcement: April 4, 2021, President Russell M. Nelson
Groundbreaking ceremony: June 18, 2022, presided over by Elder Mark A. Bragg of the General Authority Seventy
Open to the public: April 30 to May 23, 2026, except Sundays
Scheduled dedication: June 7, 2026
Site area: 5.46 acres
Building size: 30,872 square feet
Building height: 70 feet (including spire)
