Mormon Temple Lot
Friday, 20th January 2006 by James Turnbull
According to Mormons, the Garden of Eden was originally located near Temple Lot, a small piece of land which is now shared by three different sects of the religon. The largest of the three sects, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, has a small presence; theirs is the white box building on the SE corner. The Church of Christ Temple Lot's presence is even smaller; theirs is the yellow-roofed building in the NW corner.
The other two structures which dominate this area, a Copper-roofed Auditorium on the SW corner and a spiral church on the NE corner, are both owned by the second largest, but obviously better funded sect, the Community of Christ. The Temple spire is inspired by a nautilus shell which spirals upwards (good ground shots on the architect's website) and there is a map of the world painted on the courtyard to the West.
Thanks: Kaley, Charles Eck, Scott McClare, Rob Ellis
I’m just getting used to Google Earth so i’m probably way off but if you go here:
lat=53.6724492484, lon=-2.63099970956
You can see the Mormon church at Chorley Lancashire. I believe the Mormons see Chorley as their spiritual home because the settlers to the New World came from this part world (or something like that). Stunning church – in low res on Maps but looks great in GE. Can some one tell me how to post a location properly from GE?
In the mean time heres a ground level shot:
http://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/ewm/001ewm/04X_sacredsites1/13.html
Just to clarify, Mormons don’t believe the actual garden of eden was on that very spot. They believe that Adam, late in life, gathered his family for a final meeting at what is now Spring Hill, Missouri (called in Mormon scripture “Adam-ondi-Ahman“). The assumption, therefore, is that the garden of eden was somewhere nearby.
Spring Hill:
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…And then his ancestors traveled across the Atlantic and Africa and spawned civilization in Mesopotamia.
DANG THOSE GORUND shots are TIGHT! too bad the res isnt the best , good find good find
Keith T.: “…And then his ancestors traveled across the Atlantic and Africa and spawned civilization in Mesopotamia.”
Admittedly, it is an article of faith, not a scientific claim. The thinking is that the migration from the western to eastern hemispheres took place during Noah’s travels on the ark.
“I believe the Mormons see Chorley as their spiritual home…”
I’m Mormon and I’ve never even heard of Chorley. 🙂
Sorry jimbo – didnt mean to be disrespectful – just dont know much about your religion sorry. Chorley has the biggest Mormon Temple outside Utah and i’m surprised you havent heard of it. i was way wrong with my assumption sorry – it turns out Chorley is very important to Mormons but only because it was where they first settled when they came to England (and not the other way round – i think i was thinking of Quakers)
I think northern git is referring to what Mormons call the Preston England Temple.
It’s significant because of Mormon success in making converts there in the 1830s and -40s, and because current LDS president Gordon Hinckley served as a missionary there before WW2.
And, yes, it does look very good in GE. Enter this in the Fly To search field:
53.6724492484 N, 2.63099970956 W
“…but obviously better funded sect…” Hahaha, Had to laugh at that one.
I was curious and stopped here on a road trip across the country. I found the sprial obnoxious and thought it looked out of place in this nice little area (inside wasn’t much better).
also had a good laugh at the “obviously better funded sect” part, and even that they were refered to as “sects” of the church… That’d be similar to calling any Methodist a sect of the Roman Catholic church…
I didn’t read all the comments here, but the statement that the independence was the site of the Garden of Eden is incorrect. The location is called Adam-ondi-Ahman and is located maybe 40 minutes north east of KC.
To clearify, the spiral temple isn’t the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. It is owned by the Community of Christ.
http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=50410
If you go there you will find some kmz files with most of the Latter-Day Saint temples marked. I know some of the recently built have not been updated so all there is to see is bare ground.
Those temples are very special and sacred. They aren’t like the Community of Christ’s spiral domed building.
To attempt to clarify a bit more. The Community of Christ is probably not anywhere near better-funded than the main LDS church. It’s just that this is looking at their world headquarters. If you look at downtown SLC, you’ll see that if there were a real-estate religious smackdown, the SLC LDS would win hands down. Not that the value of real estate matters in a religion…
And as far as Chorley goes. I doubt most Mormons in the US would know of it. But since it is in an area where the first LDS missionaries worked in England, it probably is kind of a spiritual home to British LDS folks. I’m a seventh generation Mormon, raised in Utah, and have only heard of Chorley because some of my ancestors lived there, and joined the church there in the late 1830s.
Well a year later and lots of clarification the Temple in Chorley is now in hi res.
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And very nice it looks aswell.