Attending the temple makes the “gift of peace” possible, Henry B. Eyring, first counselor in the governing First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, said at a Sunday temple dedication.

Announced in 2020 by then-church President Russell M. Nelson, the new Lindon Temple is now the church’s 216th operating temple worldwide and the second operating temple in Utah to have two baptismal fonts, with the Syracuse Temple being the first.

The 92-year-old Eyring, who dedicated the two-spired, three-story, 81,000-square-foot temple, told fellow members that the sacred building could help them find peace in their busy lives.

No one is immune to the “thorns of the flesh,” Eyring explained, but he also added that the temple can even bring peace during life’s toughest challenges.

“Each time you return to the temple you will, by the Spirit, learn more of [Jesus Christ] and of his Father,” he said. “The peace he promises us can come, even as the storms of life beat upon us. The temple is a place of peace where we are cleansed and purified through his Atonement.”

A public open house of the temple was held from early March through mid-April.

Utah is home to 32 existing and planned temples.

Unlike the church’s more common meetinghouses, temples are places where devout Latter-day Saints participate in their highest religious rites such as eternal marriage.

Note to readers • Dylan Eubank is a Report for America corps member covering faith in Utah County for The Salt Lake Tribune. Your donation to match our RFA grant helps to keep him writing stories.