Goodbye, House Age style. Now we know what the Provo Temple will look like.

Remodeling will give it a considerably extra regular glimpse.

The Latter-working day Saint temple in Provo is finding a makeover — from its original Room Age, round design and style to a a lot more regular, conventional glimpse.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-working day Saints produced a rendering Wednesday of what the legendary sanctuary will search like immediately after it is reworked. The temple will keep on being in its existing site but be unrecognizable from its latest kind.

The rounded temple, created by then-church architect Emil Fetzer, opened in 1972, just weeks following its architectural twin, the Ogden Temple — the only other temple with a similar, round style and design — was devoted. That temple was rebuilt as a much more common framework as effectively and reopened in 2014.

“The Ogden and Provo temples evoke a House Age symbolism, a streamlined Saturn V rocket propelling the Apollo module further than the terrestrial frontiers and into the great void of space,” Steven Cornell and Kirk Huffaker wrote in The Salt Lake Tribune in 2010. “…The meant image, a Hebraic pillar of fireplace atop the cloud God employed to stifle the Egyptian army as Israel built her miraculous escape, was identical to the present day Saturn V imagery.”

And Fetzer’s interiors for the Ogden and Provo temples featured an innovation that has given that come to be a Latter-working day Saint staple: Ordinance rooms — exactly where users listen to the tale of human historical past from the Back garden of Eden via mortality to the afterlife — all lead to the Celestial Space, symbolizing heaven, in the middle.

The recent Provo Temple structure is “part of a much larger created landscape that created in the mid-20th century,” David Amott, govt director of Preservation Utah, wrote Wednesday. “Many of Brigham Youthful University’s modernist structures, the Missionary Teaching Center, and the homes encompassing the temple have been constructed in far more or significantly less the very same period and as a result cling together in a unified way.”

To location a classically styled setting up in the center of this much larger landscape “would damage this exceptional, living document of how the LDS Church grew (grew up) in the middle of the 20th century and grew to become the international institution it is right now,” Amott wrote in an email. “The Provo Temple created a prototype for all temples that arrived immediately after it (in the LDS Church’s exertion to acquire the temple expertise to the 4 corners of the environment), and for that cause by itself it deserves to stand.”

Generations of “missionaries from all above the globe, BYU pupils, and so forth., have applied this temple to get their spiritual rites, perform rituals for many others, and so forth.,” he extra. “This is not just a local temple and a local challenge.”

Social media was awash in opinions about the proposed revisions.

“I am sad to see it go! The old Provo temple is like your loved ones pet dog. We are authorized to complain about it but that doesn’t mean we want to exchange it!” tweeted Lauren Simpson. “It’s an unpleasant dog, but it’s OUR ugly doggy.”

“It was distinct, cleanly artistic w/diligently preferred symbolism,” Weston C. tweeted, “and took a cherished (if at times poked exciting at) location in personalized/neighborhood background.”

“Moving from a upcoming-oriented style to previous-oriented is appealing,” Chad Reiser wrote on Twitter. “The church experienced a little handful of temples in the ‘60s, now all temples are developed to seem like they’ve been there for hundreds of years.”

Church President Russell M. Nelson announced the planned overhaul in the faith’s October Normal Conference.

The Provo Temple will near right after the completion of the Orem Temple, which is below construction. No dates have been introduced for the completion of the latter and the closure of the previous.

The church also released a rendering Wednesday of the Smithfield Temple, which was introduced by Nelson in April. The a few-story, 81,00-sq.-foot creating will be produced on 13.3 acres at the intersection of 800 West and 100 North just north of Logan.

There are presently 14 temples functioning in Utah, and a few much more — the pioneer-era Salt Lake, St. George and Manti buildings — are going through renovation. Temples also are planned or less than building in Ephraim, the Heber Valley, Layton, Lindon, Orem, Saratoga Springs, Smithfield, St. George (a second one), Syracuse, Taylorsville and Tooele — for a overall of 28 current or declared Latter-day Saint temples in the Beehive Condition.

Latter-day Saints take into account a temple to be a Household of the Lord, the place Jesus Christ’s teachings are reaffirmed by ordinances that unite people for eternity.