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PROVO, Utah (AP) — The Mormon Church unveiled its 150th temple on Monday — a renovated historical tabernacle in Provo that nearly burned down in 2010.
The temple's red brick exterior and back story are unique, but the interior features the same staples that make such buildings deeply sacred places for members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Walls throughout the latest three-story facility are lined with elaborate religious paintings displayed in golden frames. The marble baptismal font sits atop 12 oxen sculptures.
A spire with a gold sculpture of the angel Moroni sits atop the structure — the signature of all Mormon temples.
The opening comes five years after the church nearly burned down in a fire that began in the attic and that investigators determined was largely caused by human error.
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