Church options Washington D.C. Temple open up house and rededication in 2022

The long-anticipated general public open up property for the renovated Washington D.C. Temple is officially again on the calendar.

The announcement was built Tuesday in a letter from the Very first Presidency and shared through a media celebration at the Washington D.C. Temple Visitors’ Heart.

The renovated temple will start out with a media day on April 18, 2022, adopted by non-public excursions for invited company from April 19 to April 27.

The two-month general public open dwelling will begin April 28 and go until finally June 4 (other than for Sundays). Open up dwelling ticket info is readily available at dctemple.org.

A youth devotional will be held on June 18, adopted by the temple rededication on June 19 in three classes. The youth devotional and rededication will be broadcast for all congregations inside of the Washington D. C. Temple district.

Washington D.C. Temple history

The church initially broke floor on the Washington D.C. Temple on Dec. 7, 1968.

Additional than 750,000 men and women toured the temple from Sept. 17 to Oct. 19, 1974, before President Spencer W. Kimball devoted it on Nov. 19, 1974.

Due to the fact then, the landmark temple around the Cash Beltway in Kensington, Maryland, has served Latter-day Saints in the Washington, D.C., place, Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland.

The Washington D.C. Temple closed in March 2018 for a key renovation task that included repairs or upgrades to mechanical, electrical, plumbing and lighting devices, alongside with other refurbishing requires.

Dan Holt, undertaking manager for the Washington D.C. Temple renovation task, explained the within of the temple maintains its identical midcentury motif with an added “21st-century flair” to make it “more maintainable, a lot more fashionable and definitely pertinent for now.”

“Our hope,” Holt said, “is that the two the design of the making and the materials and tools that we put in are likely to previous an additional 50 to 100 a long time — and do so proficiently and effectively.”

“We’ve been waiting for the temple to be rebuilt and rededicated. We’re enthusiastic to be element of this group and to be portion of this good prospect to share with our neighbors,” reported Lucy Lopez, a Church neighborhood outreach professional.

“The temple setting up is certainly lovely,” stated Kisha Wilson, area director of Church Conversation. “If you seem at the construction, if you look at the details of the constructing. What can make it even more particular is we can invite everyone. This is a local community present. And so, we want everybody to participate in the open up home, to have the chance to experience a particular or shut relationship to God and to truly feel His really like.”

“I hope when people come, they will truly feel the warmth of a position committed to God,” explained Anne Golightly, chair of the temple open dwelling public affairs committee. “There is a light-weight there. There is a sensation of hope.”

Why was the Washington D.C. Temple open up house postponed in 2020?

Subsequent the renovation, a community open up residence for the Washington D.C. Temple was scheduled for late September and Oct in 2020, with the rededication to acquire put on Dec. 13.

But church leaders postponed the public open household and rededication in June 2020 “because of worry for the outcomes of COVID-19 … until eventually large community gatherings are considered secure,” the church said in a statement.