LDS Temple - San Diego, CA - Satellite Imagery Oddities on Waymarking.com

This temple, dedicated in 1993, was only California's third Mormon Temple (after Los Angeles & Oakland.) There were over 20 dedication ceremonies over a five day period of time. At the time that this waymark was posted, the Temple was under scaffolding- presumably to keep it blindingly white.
The Temple sits on a 7.2 acre site and contains 72,000 square feet of space.
Additional information (including photos without the scaffolding)is available at the Temple's website including the following: (visit link)

"The architects for the San Diego California Temple were William S. Lewis, Jr., design architect; Dennis Hyndman, project architect; and Shelly Hyndman, interior design architect. The Hyndmans, who are Roman Catholic, had not toured the interior of a Latter-day Saint temple until the Las Vegas Nevada Temple open house commenced in 1989.

After suffering a mild heart attack four months earlier, President Ezra Taft Benson made his first trip outside the Salt Lake Valley to break ground for the San Diego California Temple—his first time presiding over a temple groundbreaking.

On Monday, December 23, 1991, the 186th anniversary of the birth of the Prophet Joseph Smith, a gilded statue of the angel Moroni was installed atop the eastern spire of the San Diego California Temple. Shortly after the setting, a traveling flock of seagulls—a bird of symbolic significance to the Church—circled the new statue about three times before continuing on its course.

Over 720,000 visitors attended the widely publicized open house of the San Diego California Temple.

President Benson's ailing health did not allow him to preside at the dedication of the San Diego California Temple. President Gordon B. Hinckley was assigned to dedicate the temple in 23 sessions where 49,273 persons attended."

Website: [Web Link]

Visit Instructions:
Please provide another photo of the location. You don't have to be in there shot, but you can. The photo requirement is to discourage any armchair visiting.

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Date Logged Log   05/29/2010 Metro2 visited it