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No. Only members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (commonly called the "Mormon" Church) with a special reccomendation from their bishop can enter a Temple after it is dedicated (Temples are open for public tours before their dedication.) Many temples have a visitor center or lobby where people who are not members of the Church may wait for family or friends who are getting married, you can call the specific temple or ask your daughter if this is available.

If your daughter is getting married in a Meetinghouse, you can definitely just walk in. Meetinghouses are used for regular Sunday worship services and are open to all.

If you are going to be disappointed not seeing your daughter's Temple wedding ceremony, you might consider asking if she would be willing to do a separate ring ceremony outside the temple. This would resemble a traditional wedding ceremony and be held after the Temple wedding ceremony. Your daughter's (or her fiance's) bishop would probably be happy to perform a ring ceremony at a Meetinghouse free of charge. This way all your family and friends can attend.

You can learn more about the difference between Temples and Meetinghouses at the "Related Links" below.

The temple does not appear to have received any structural damage, but the Moroni statue on top swiveled. You can see a photo of the before and after Moroni at the "Related Link" below.

The announcement was made on 28 July 1847 about the Salt Lake Temple being built and the Groundbreaking was called by Brigham Young on February 14, 1853.

No. The tallest temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the "Mormon" church) is the Washington DC temple (actually located in Maryland). The tallest spire of this temple is 288 feet.

The temples that were built between when the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was founded (1830) and 150 years later (1980) are:

Kirtland, Ohio (1836)

Nauvoo, Illinois (1846)

St. George, Utah (1877)

Logan, Utah (1884)

Manti, Utah (1888)

Salt Lake, Utah (1893)

Laie, Hawaii (1919)

Cardston, Alberta, Canada (1923)

Mesa, Arizona (1927)

Idaho Falls, Idaho (1945)

Bern, Switzerland (1955)

Los Angeles, California (1956)

Hamilton, New Zealand (1958)

London, England (1958)

Oakland, California (1964)

Ogden, Utah (1972)

Provo, Utah (1972)

Washington, DC (1974)

Sao Paulo, Brazil (1978)

Tokyo, Japan (1980)

Seattle, Washington (1980)

That makes 21, although Kirtland and Nauvoo were only used for a brief time, so only 19 were in use in 1980.

As this is in the LDS Temples category I will answer it from that perspective -

Laws vary by country, but in the United States, Mormon Temples and those ordained as Temple Sealers are recognized as authorities who can bind a legal marriage. If you are married in a Mormon Temple, it is recognized as a legally binding marriage by the government. It is NOT illegal to get married in a Mormon temple, and the Church has to operate under the laws of the government in performing a marriage within their temples.

If you do not get married in the Temple, but are married by another authority (bishop, priest, civil authority) it is still a legally binding marriage, assuming you went through the proper channels. It is not recognized as an eternal marriage by the Church, but it is certainly a legal marriage and is recognized by the Church as such. Your marriage does NOT need to be registered in the temple in order to be considered valid by the church.

Yes. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the "Mormon" church) has had a temple in Las Vegas since 1989. There are also over 100 Mormon congregations in the Las Vegas metro area.

Check out the "Related Links" to see more information and photographs about the Las Vegas Nevada Temple.

There are many LDS temples around the world. As of March 2013, the church has 139 temples in operation. Lists of temples can be found on the organization's official website as well as on other related websites such as Deseret News.

To meet the needs of a growing and diverse membership, the Church has evolved its approach to temple construction and design over the years. This brief article examines the major design phases of latter-day temple construction.

The Ogden Utah Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the "Mormon" church) has a total floor area of 112,232 square feet.

Salt Lake City, Utah.

There is no set direction in which the Angel Moroni points. And in fact, as of 2013, eight Mormon Temples don't have any Angel Moroni statue at all. Eight additional temples have received a statue several years after their dedication to help identify them as Mormon Temples.

On most temples, the angel statue faces east if possible. This is supposedly because Moroni is meant to be heralding or signaling the Second Coming of Jesus Christ, whom is often associated with the east in scripture; but this is more of a tradition than an official belief or practice. There are several temples where the angel faces another direction simply because of the direction of the building or the lot it was built on. On five temples (Seattle, Manilla Philippines, Taipei Taiwan, Spokane, and Nauvoo, Illinois), the angel faces due west because the temple faces west.

There are currently (June 2015) seven temples of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Brazil. These are located in Manaus, Fortaleza, Recife, Campinas, Sao Paulo, Curitiba, and Porto Alegre. There is one temple being planned for Rio de Janeiro.

There are several Temples (separate from meetinghouses) of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (commonly known as Mormons) in the southern US. Here are their addresses:

Birmingham Alabama Temple: 1927 Mount Olive Boulevard, Gardendale, Alabama

Atlanta Georgia Temple: 6450 Barfield Road NE, Sandy Springs, Georgia

Columbia South Carolina Temple: 2905 Trotter Road, Hopkins, South Carolina

Orlando Florida Temple: 9000 Windy Ridge Road, Windermere, Florida

Fort Lauderdale Florida Temple: 3901 SW 154th Avenue, Davie, Florida

Memphis Tennesee Temple: 4199 Kirby Whitten Parkway, Bartlett, Tennessee

Nashville Tennesee Temple: 1100 Gray Fox Lane, Franklin, Tennessee

Louisville Kentucky Temple: 7116 West Highway 22, Crestwood, Kentucky

Oklahoma City Oklahoma Temple: 12030 North Mustang Road, Yukon, Oklahoma

Raleigh North Carolina Temple: 574 Bryan Drive, Apex, North Carolina

Baton Rouge Louisiana Temple: 10339 Highland Road, Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Houston Texas Temple: 15725 Champion Forest Drive, Klein, Texas

San Antonio Texas Temple: 20080 Stone Oak Parkway, San Antonio, Texas

Dallas Texas Temple: 6363 Willow Lane, Dallas, Texas

Lubbock Texas Temple: 7016 Frankford Avenue, Lubbock, Texas

If you would like more information, locations, or photos of the Church's Temples, you can visit temples.lds.org, mormontemplds.org or ldschurchtemples.com

Your question in itself shows the lack of understanding of this Mormonism practice. Even though this ordinance (practice or ritual) is considered sacred by the Mormons, I will try to explain the reasons behind the alleged practice, without getting into doctrinal dissertations about the gospel and the life after death. The "new name" is a practice based on the doctrine of the resurrection. Whoever knows a little about the scriptures, knows about resurrection, and the Church of Latter Day Saints teaches that resurrection will happen in 3 stages, the morning, the afternoon and the evening of the resurrection, after which, judgment comes. The reference to this resurrection day is an allegation of the 1000 years of peace that will come after the advent of Christ for the last time. If we are to understand the book of revelation in the bible, when Christ comes in His power for the second and last time, He will wipe out all the iniquity and leave standing only the pure of heart and clean spirit. This coming (advent) will start the so called millennium, and whoever remains alive after this striking event, will grow old to normal age and die naturally and resurrect in the blink of an eye, without the need to be buried or anything like that. I don't know the details nor the dynamics of this doctrine, I am just laying out here what the Mormons know. Now, remember that the Bible states that one day for God is like 1000 years for men. So, once the millennium starts, the morning of the resurrection "day" starts as well. And just as is done now with any other ordinances, people with the appropriate authority will be performing all the ordinances as well during the millennium. To raise the death from their graves with immortal and perfectly glorified bodies is just another ordinance that will be performed at that time. The way this ordinance is going to be done is by calling up the name of the dead person. Now, what is going to be the criteria to chose who is going to be raised in the "morning" and who is for the "afternoon" and even at the end of the millenarian period? That will depend on the righteousness of the person being raised from the grave and the covenants they made with God and how well they kept them throughout their lives. Mormons consider marriage a key ordinance for this effect, because they sustain having the authority of God to perform wedding links for time and eternity in their sacred temples. If they summit themselves through this very strict covenant and keep it holy and sacred until death, then they know they will be raised in the morning of the resurrection day or remain alive through Jesus's coming, if it happens during their lifetimes, along with all the people with pure hearts and clean spirits. Now, the order in which people is going to be raised, is according to the bible, that is, men first by their fathers, and these men will raise their wives accordingly. This is not an antifeminist intent or anything like that, is just the order that the scriptures explain. I don't have a clear idea of why God created Adam before Eve, but that is just how it is. But the only way this ordinance will take effect is by calling the wife with the name given at the temple where they originally made the covenant. Then, the ordinance will have the power and authority to be performed and the deceased person to recognize the name with which was assigned originally in mortality, at the temple. So, I know this all could be very overwhelming, but it is what it is. Anyway, the whole resurrection process is deeply connected with the family ties and eternal links. That is, the wedding ordinances performed during mortality but with the authority to seal them for time and eternity, in contrast with our traditional "'til death do you apart" thing. The children are to be sealed to their parents and the husbands to their wives, making the whole human race a complete chain of continuous links from Adam and Eve as our original parents to the last man born on Earth. This whole task will not be completed before Christ's coming, but rather during the millennium. This ordinance is done now by the Mormons every day in every one of their temples, and even vicariously to link themselves with their ancestors trying to complete the chain links as far as possible in time. Whoever went through these ordinances before the millennium and received the new name, and kept a good life, will be raised from the tomb in the morning of the millennium by being called from the appropriate person who knows his or her new name. This name is secret and sacred, and is kept as such for that purpose only. Every person going through the temple for the first time, and doing all the ordinances thereof, will receive a new name, men and women, to hold sacred and secret until the day comes in which it will be used. But the women get to tell their husbands her new and secret name, just because he will be the one calling her out of the grave at due time. She doesn't need to know his name, because she won't be calling him. So, as you see, the statement implied in your question in wrong, because the husband never gives a new name to his wife. Instead, she reveals her new name to him. So, once all the pure of heart and clean spirit are back alive, they will be performing all the remaining ordinances for all the other people who are still dead and completing the chain up to the very last link, so everybody will have the new name and be raised as they are given their new names vicariously according to their righteousness during mortality. This subject alone has been a victim of all sorts of arguments, discussions, casuistic, hypothesis, etc, but that is how it is, and whatever I don't clearly understand now, will be answered in its respective time. I can guarantee you won't find this answer anywhere else, and if you ask a Mormon about these things, he or she will be astonished wondering how in the world you know those things. That is, if that Mormon himself knows about it. True or not, I just know that God is perfect, and as such, He does have a perfectly laid out plan for His children to go back to Him and become the best they can be, let it be angels, let it be perfect beings, let it be creators, let it be gods, I don't know. I just know that whatever I need to know, I can ask God about it, personally, and I always receive an answer. Why not you?

As of 2015, there are seven temples of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (commonly called the "Mormon" church) in California. They are Oakland, Sacramento, Fresno, San Diego, Los Angeles, Newport Beach, and Redlands. There are also several temples near the California border - Las Vegas, Reno, Tijuana, and Medford Oregon.

Please note that a temple is different than a church meetinghouse. Temples are used only for sacred ceremonies, while meetinghouses are used for Sunday worship and congregational activities. There are over 1,300 LDS congregations in California.

The Hong Kong China Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the "Mormon" church) was announced in October 1992. After planning was complete, a groundbreaking marking the official beginning of construction was held in January 1994. The Temple was completed and dedicated in May 1996. Because the property was already owned by the Church and the temple had been sketched by the Church President prior to it's announcement, the planning phase was much shorter than most other temples.

The original Nauvoo Temple was dedicated May 1, 1846 by Orson Hyde, who was never a member of the First Presidency. At the time, he was an Apostle.

The Manti Utah Temple was dedicated May 21, 1888 by Lorenzo Snow, who was not at that time a member of the First Presidency, but later became the President of the Church.

Regina Saskatchewan Temple was dedicated November 14, 1999 by Boyd K. Packer, who has never been a member of the First Presidency, but was Acting President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles at the time.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (commonly called the "Mormon" church) does not generally reveal the cost to construct it's temples. However, given the materials used and the square footage, it was easily tens of millions of dollars.

According to the Salt Lake County Assessor, the Draper LDS Temple (building and land) were assessed at $27.5 million for the 2015 tax season.

Other LDS temples in the area were assessed at:
Jordan River: $21.8 million
Oquirrh Mountain: Land only $1.3 million (building not assessed)
Salt Lake: $61.3 million

Currently 11, with 3 more planned.

Temples are not a new concept. Throughout the Old Testament, the temples were a place for the High Priests to commune with God, and to make covenants with Him.

Not all members of the church can enter the temple. To do so, a member must be shown worthy by practicing the tenants of their faith. To a practicing member of the church, the temple is a place of peace and solitude away from the busy world. It is a place where they can pray, ponder, and feel close to God. They believe His spirit can be felt there. To them, the temple is sacred, and they attend in humble reverence.

It would be difficult to maintain that reverence if everyone were aloud to walk in and talk out loud and distract those participating in the temple experience. The things that happen in the temple are not secret. They are sacred. Those who are not members of the church, or those who are, but are not living the commandments to the best of their abilities would not be prepared to understand the reverent worship of those in attendance.

When a new temple is built, the church will hold an open house for a month or longer to allow people from all faiths to walk through and experience the temple. After the Temple is dedicated as the Lord's Holy House here on earth, the policy of only Temple Recommend holding members my attend. There are many photographs available of the inside of the temples at MormonTemples.org

The couple has a wedding interview with their Bishop and each must have a valid temple recommend that is also given through personal interviews with their Bishop and Stake president.

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Both members of the couple must be baptized members of the Church actively participating in their congregations for one year. In order to qualify for the temple recommend they must have lived the Word of Wisdom (a Mormon health code prohibiting alcohol, tobacco, coffee, tea, and illegal drugs) and the Law of Chastity (no sexual relationships outside of a legal marriage, no living with someone of the opposite gender) for at least one year. They also cannot have any felony charges in the past three years. Of course, any divorces must be final, in the case of a re-marriage.

LDS Temples currently under construction (February 2011) are:

Brigham City, Utah

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Cordoba, Argentina

Gilbert, Arizona

Kansas City, Missouri

Manaus, Brazil

Quetzaltenago, Guatemala

Rome, Italy

San Salvador, El Salvador

Tegucigalpa, Honduras

LDS Temples that have been announced but construction has not yet begun are:

Concepcion, Chile

Fortaleza, Brazil

Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Hartford, Connecticut

Indianapolis, Indiana

Lisbon, Portugal

Payson, Utah

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Pheonix, Arizona

Sapporo, Japan

Tijuana, Mexico

Trujillo, Peru

Urdaneta, Philippines

Temples that are currently being renovated are:

Atlanta, Georgia

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Ogden, Utah

You can get an updated list at the "related link" below.