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MikeWaters · 02-24-2009, 01:53 PM

How come the church isn't building anymore cheap temples like the one in Dallas?

I just saw a pic of the outside of the Draper Temple.

When I was growing up, the baptismal font in Dallas was adorned in white ceramic, with natural light from the ceiling. It was nice and airy and bright. Now it has no natural light, the walls are that woven fiber brown stuff that is used in some chapels, it is dimly lit. Trust me, there is no feeling of opulence in that room.

Maybe the church decided that these cut-rate temples were a mistake.

Tex · 02-24-2009, 02:36 PM

Yes, the temples are too cheaply constructed. I can see how that's a valid complaint.

Archaea · 02-24-2009, 02:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Tex

Yes, the temples are too cheaply constructed. I can see how that's a valid complaint.

Complaint or observation? The Church experiments. Sometimes it wants to have its edifices erected aesthetically and sometimes it relies upon functionality. To me, it is an eternal administrative tension which will always exist.

Indy Coug · 02-24-2009, 04:42 PM

Maybe the Draper members are more faithful than the Dallas members, especially the ones that post 15,000 acerbic posts that are highly critical of the church they claim to belong to.

il Padrino Ute · 02-24-2009, 05:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Indy Coug

Maybe the Draper members are more faithful than the Dallas members....

Exactly. How can we saints in Zion have our just reward if members outside of Utah think they deserve the same?

Levin · 02-24-2009, 06:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Archaea

Complaint or observation? The Church experiments. Sometimes it wants to have its edifices erected aesthetically and sometimes it relies upon functionality. To me, it is an eternal administrative tension which will always exist.

False choice there, Archaea. Good architecture can be functional, beautiful, and well-built (the third quality you missed). Doesn't matter, from the hut to the temple, any edifice can and should embody all three.

Mike -- why'd they take away the natural light in the Dallas temple? Some misguided renovation?

Archaea · 02-24-2009, 06:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Levin

False choice there, Archaea. Good architecture can be functional, beautiful, and well-built (the third quality you missed). Doesn't matter, from the hut to the temple, any edifice can and should embody all three.

Mike -- why'd they take away the natural light in the Dallas temple? Some misguided renovation?

I didn't say i agree with that assessment, but it takes a lot more talent to make a small, functional buildiing aesthetically pleasing, and we often don't find that talent.

ute4ever · 02-24-2009, 06:49 PM

Levin · 02-24-2009, 07:19 PM

It looks made from cinderblocks -- an ugly effect when its wet. Did they not foresee this?

MikeWaters · 02-24-2009, 07:27 PM

The Draper temple looks liked it was modeled with legos first. Very blocky and square. Fortressy. Certainly not elegant.

02-24-2009, 01:53 PM	#1
MikeWaters Demiurge Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 36,365	glorified-stake-center temples How come the church isn't building anymore cheap temples like the one in Dallas? I just saw a pic of the outside of the Draper Temple. When I was growing up, the baptismal font in Dallas was adorned in white ceramic, with natural light from the ceiling. It was nice and airy and bright. Now it has no natural light, the walls are that woven fiber brown stuff that is used in some chapels, it is dimly lit. Trust me, there is no feeling of opulence in that room. Maybe the church decided that these cut-rate temples were a mistake.

02-24-2009, 02:36 PM	#2
Tex Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 8,596	Yes, the temples are too cheaply constructed. I can see how that's a valid complaint. __________________ "Have we been commanded not to call a prophet an insular racist? Link?" "And yes, [2010] is a very good year to be a Democrat. Perhaps the best year in decades ..." - Cali Coug "Oh dear, granny, what a long tail our puss has got." - Brigham Young

02-24-2009, 07:19 PM	#9
Levin Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 1,484	It looks made from cinderblocks -- an ugly effect when its wet. Did they not foresee this? __________________ "Now I say that I know the meaning of my life: 'To live for God, for my soul.' And this meaning, in spite of its clearness, is mysterious and marvelous. Such is the meaning of all existence." Levin, Anna Karenina, Part 8, Chapter 12

02-24-2009, 04:42 PM	#4
Indy Coug Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Between Iraq and a hard place Posts: 7,569	Maybe the Draper members are more faithful than the Dallas members, especially the ones that post 15,000 acerbic posts that are highly critical of the church they claim to belong to.

02-24-2009, 06:49 PM	#8
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02-24-2009, 07:27 PM	#10
MikeWaters Demiurge Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 36,365	The Draper temple looks liked it was modeled with legos first. Very blocky and square. Fortressy. Certainly not elegant.