{"id":47075,"date":"2024-04-29T05:00:58","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T11:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=47075"},"modified":"2025-05-28T20:23:05","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T02:23:05","slug":"temple-architecture-and-local-native-styles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2024\/04\/temple-architecture-and-local-native-styles\/","title":{"rendered":"Temple Architecture and Local, Native Styles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Longtime readers may recall that I started to do a<\/span> series on \u201ctemple architectural heritages\u201d<\/span><\/a> a while ago. I eventually aborted it since the subject was too big and unwieldy. Still, I\u2019m looking forward to the day when somebody puts together a glossy coffee table book with not just pretty pictures, but also the architectural history and insights of all the different temple designs. (Although the excellent website <\/span>churchofjesuschristtemples.org\/<\/span><\/a> is close).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Still, I thought as a sort of coda to that enterprise I would provide a list of temples that, in my opinion, do a good job of incorporating unique, local styles into the general Latter-day Saint temple ur-style instead of using a standardized plan that\u2019s been done a thousand times already.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This list is not comprehensive, and I\u2019m sure I\u2019ve missed some.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Japan, Sapporo<\/b><\/p>\n

This recent addition to the Japanese landscape boasts <\/span>a Zen Garden i<\/a>nside<\/span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Mexico, Mexico City<\/b><\/p>\n

Made in the Maya Revival style that includes Mayan and Aztec elements, so it kind of looks like an ancient Mesoamerican temple. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Bangkok, Thailand<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cThe design of the Bangkok Thailand Temple follows the patterns and colors found within Thai architecture. Many of these patterns overlay various diamond shapes with lotus flower elements and a herringbone pattern, evoking the weaved palms used in traditional arts and goods.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Madrid, Spain\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

Mediterranean-looking vases in front and Arabesque diamond-patterned screens that are redolent of the Muslim-Spanish architecture.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Rome, Italy<\/b><\/p>\n

According to Wikipedia<\/a> patterned after a particular local Catholic church. Statues of the apostles in the traditional Roman\/Catholic style, cross and all. \u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

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Dubai, United Arab Emirates<\/b><\/p>\n

We haven\u2019t seen the renditions of this one yet, but the potential of a temple that incorporates Islamic and\/or Arab architectural themes and decor has some excited about the possibilities<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Longtime readers may recall that I started to do a series on \u201ctemple architectural heritages\u201d a while ago. I eventually aborted it since the subject was too big and unwieldy. Still, I\u2019m looking forward to the day when somebody puts together a glossy coffee table book with not just pretty pictures, but also the architectural history and insights of all the different temple designs. (Although the excellent website churchofjesuschristtemples.org\/ is close).\u00a0 Still, I thought as a sort of coda to that enterprise I would provide a list of temples that, in my opinion, do a good job of incorporating unique, local styles into the general Latter-day Saint temple ur-style instead of using a standardized plan that\u2019s been done a thousand times already.\u00a0 This list is not comprehensive, and I\u2019m sure I\u2019ve missed some.\u00a0 Japan, Sapporo This recent addition to the Japanese landscape boasts a Zen Garden inside.\u00a0 Mexico, Mexico City Made in the Maya Revival style that includes Mayan and Aztec elements, so it kind of looks like an ancient Mesoamerican temple. \u00a0 Bangkok, Thailand \u201cThe design of the Bangkok Thailand Temple follows the patterns and colors found within Thai architecture. Many of these patterns overlay various diamond shapes with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10403,"featured_media":47076,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2900],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-temples"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/90.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10403"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47075"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50246,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47075\/revisions\/50246"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}