A Look Inside the Renovated Oakland California Temple
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- The Oakland California Temple is an enduring Bay Area landmark that shines like a beacon from the Oakland Hills, directly across from San Francisco. A lengthy renovation was just completed on the 55-year-old temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The public is now invited to see inside the modernism-style temple that hasn't had an open house since its original completion in 1964.
This temple has such a wonderful place in my heart, not so much because of the architecture, that is nice, but because of the SPIRIT of GOD I felt within the walls of this temple when I was younger and served there. I will never forget. I was also married and sealed to my wife in this temple many years ago. The experiences of the temple ceremonies, the baptisms, the priesthood ordinances, all came with powerful manifestations of the Spirit of God... the Holy Ghost. These testimony building experiences I had there, I will never forget. Testimonies that what goes on there is indeed validated and approved by God, even though we people are NOT perfect, God is in it, and God desires that people be sealed together for all time and eternity, in the grand family of God the Eternal Father. The priesthood ordinances in the temple are the gateway to what Jesus taught about, where he said In my Father's house are many mansions... I go to prepare a place for you.
Incredible. I never imagined it was so lovely.
I never knew that this was an LDS church. I'm truly shocked, but not really. It's beautiful. I remember watching it glow as a child going to my grandma's house nearly every Friday night traveling on 580.
I could see it from my grandparents house on Edwards Ave, right off 580 too. Good memories.
I hope you guys can someday spend some time inside. It is wonderful
It's a temple. The church buildings for Sunday and weekdays are different.
When you have a chance you should go see the grounds. They are truly wonderful.
I love this temple ,I received a very important life or death revelation in the Celestial room ,while hearing the tinkling of the crystal chandelier. My Aunt and Uncle served a mission there ,they loved it! So do I!
Michael Douglas Skewes loved the tinkling chandelier.
I grew up in the Bay Area and I have to say this is my favorite Temple. I have moved away, but I was always captivated by the temple’s beauty and I always looked for it when I would be in the area. I took the Temple grounds tour several times and I loved the feeling of The Spirit while I was there. I joined the church when I was 18 and later got to attend the Temple many times. I love the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints with all my heart and now know why I was always drawn to the Temple. I also absolutely love how the chandelier in the Celestial room makes tinkling sounds from the air conditioning, it’s such a heavenly sound. 🥰
This must certainly be one of the most wonderful and magical buildings in the Bay Area. I hope I get to see it.
Absolutely amazing and that's just the Celestial Room. Love the 60s era design elements. The outside landscaping and fountains are awesome. Wish this was a hotel I'd make myself at home haha.
I was sealed with my husband in this temple 2013. Can’t wait to tour the temple. And continue the temple work for my ancestors.
Nothing but the best for the Lord.
When watching this video I personally felt a piece of heaven falling into my heart the temple scene was very touching.
That's a bit of a Bigotry thing to say.
This temple looks absolutely stunning! :)
My Parents were married here! 😁👰🤵➡️💒💓
All the children of all ages in the church were invited to go I was one of them it was absolutely mesmerizing and the meanings behind each room are absolutely wonderful it was a captivating experience and I can’t wait to go again with my mother
I was married in the Oakland Temple in 1968. We live in Utah now and will be flying there next week to tour this Holy Temple of God. I am thrilled!
One of the most beautiful of the LDS Temples!
It would be so fun to visit this Temple
Then come and see it! The temple is open to the public for two weeks beginning on 11 May through 1 June 2019. It's a wonderful experience!
I might see it after it is dedicated, That's Awesome, Yes, Every temple is so amazing :)
They had "trouble" whenever they thought they could "improve" on something? I know those were the times Heavenly Father had His say. (Along the lines of "No, Leave it. I Am pleased with it.")
@Veronica McClure
That’s bizarre. I would imagine someone would hear a, ‘sell it and feed some of the thousands of children that die every day of starvation related illnesses’.
@Activator Don
Does my question make you feel uncomfortable?
Maybe I should ask about the $2B shopping centre built in Salt Lake City by the church.
Of course not from the tithings right? Just the hard working businesses owned by the church? Sounds like something Jesus would be super proud of.
A few fresh water wells in villages of starving families would be such a waste.
Wait. I can hear your smooth brain, ‘b b b b but if the shopping centre does well financially, then we can do more for starving children’.
The church gives less than 1% to charity and trades in over $32B on the stock market.
It has been confirmed that the church has only given $1.2B to charity over 30 years.
It has had consistent growth in revenue since 1991 when it received $4.7B in donations that year, to $33B in 2010 from donations and $15B from other business ventures.
Do you think that if a church member was asked, ‘would you rather we give the $8,000 for this set of good door handles, to starving children and maybe have good quality gold coloured door handles that cost $400’? That church members would say, ‘no, we need that money spent in our beautiful temples, so we can feel that slice of heaven while we spend 1% or less on charity’?
I highly doubt it. I think a little more highly of my Mormon friends.
Mormon church members are amazing people mostly and based on the figures, you are finding a corporation that does not have charity work and helping others at the forefront. Not by a long stretch. Other religions give up to 80% to charity.
Speaking of the $2B shopping centre, I may be wrong. It may have been built for all the homeless and vulnerable and unfortunate and least among the community as Christ would have done, had he lived in this era.
A pair of religion jeans costs $200 in one of the stores in that shopping centre. How ironic.
I’m sure the so said ‘Christ’ would be turning in his tomb if he saw the financial hypocrisy down by a church that uses his name.
www.nytimes.com/1991/07/02/us/income-of-mormon-church-is-put-at-4.7-billion-a-year.html
www.scribd.com/document/380562519/2017-12-31-Thirteen-LLC-Investment-Summary
www.google.com.au/amp/s/www.deseretnews.com/article/865657898/LDS-Church-welfare-humanitarian-efforts-average-40-million-per-year-apostle-says.amp
www.sltrib.com/religion/local/2017/10/14/historian-digs-into-the-hidden-world-of-mormon-finances-shows-how-church-went-from-losing-money-to-making-money-lots-of-it/
www.mormonnewsroom.org/article/humanitarian-aid-welfare-services-breakdown-donations-costs-resources
www.google.com.au/amp/s/www.worldreligionnews.com/religion-news/lds-church-has-spent-1-2-billion-on-welfare-and-humanitarian-efforts/amp/
planphilly.com/uploads/media_items/http-planphilly-com-sites-planphilly-com-files-cnaan_lds_giving-pdf.original.pdf
www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-07-18/how-the-mormons-make-money
Do you really think a true disciple of Christ’s teachings, needs this mishandling of finances to opulence over practicality?
You know you could build 10 commercial standard beautiful temples for the price of one right? That’s if you went with stainless steel over gold plated. That’s if temple things are so important. Perhaps there are other reasons behind such frivolous use of funds.
I’m still ‘trolling’?
We are blessed. Amen to that.
This is breathtaking
It slightly like the Laie temple.
Me n my husband n our seven children sealed our family in Hawaii Temple in Laie ,The day that we never ever Forget but hold that SCARED in our hearts FOREVER ETERNALLY Amen .Thank Thee Oh Lord for LEAD n Guide us Through to these days of Miracles a Marvelous Work of the Lord
When I was a kid living in the Dimonds, I was told that Snow White and the seven dwarves lived there, very magical experience through my formative years
We just came back from taking the Temple tour and the Celestial Room one really can feel the presence of God. We were able to reflect for a few minutes. I immediately fell to my knees in prayer.
Its been a very long time since I've seen picture of the interior of this sacred edifiice, it is absolutely gorious now that its been renovated.
Exquisitely beautiful. Thank thee, dear Savior for the priesthood and temples.
Just a beautiful temple, I miss it a lot, I hope one Day be able to return to this heavenly temple
Isai Limon plan where you want your life to be 3 years from now and live today to make that plan reality. All the best. You
This was my first temple as a youth, and I got to sing in the Temple Pageant angel choir when I was 15. Amazing experience! I went back to the pageant in 2005 with my family !
Our great Uncle Arthur Price would take us through the building area (early 1960) as he was the attending church architect in his older age. He was very very exact on having us understand that if one would take a plumb bob from the very top of the center spire, it would land right in the center of the baptismal font (which is below ground). Also the exactness of the center of Jesus Christ on the granite sculpture goes right down the cascading waterfall (which has been restored again thankfully!) representing the flowing life of our faith in Jesus Christ. All the beautiful granite is from Raymond quarry in the foothills of CA near me. I look forward to walking through this temple next week! Thank you for the preview here.
Jud Ann Milehigh Wow! The temples are very precisely constructed!!
Yes beautiful building.
J
My wife and I were married here 32 years ago. 🥰
Amazing just really amazing. My friend got sealed there one year. How exciting to see all the great work. To make this temple a great place. To reunite with family and everyone. To return with our Savior Jesus Christ. And take everyone to see Heavenly Father. The work is great and I enjoy it.
Lol
Went here a couple of times when I served in San Jose on the early 90's. Beautiful place. One of my fave temples.
The Oakland temple is a very special place to me. I was sealed to my wife there, we served in there for about four years, and it was my son's temple for the San Jose mission. Amazingly beautiful, in a truly breathtaking setting. So happy it's been renovated and that the public will be able to tour the inside from 11 May to 1 June- come and see it!
Secret garments, secret names, secret handshakes. You all don’t believe the Trinity god in 3 persons. One person not 3 separate figures. Love u
My wife and I were sealed in the Oakland Temple thirty-eight years ago It’s so beautiful.
Looking forward to major luster in the Logan temple restoration.
I don't know, starting feel like tease video's. American members are spoilt.
Churches are so beautiful
The house of the lord.
This is the temple where my family was sealed. And this is where my grandparents and my parents were married and sealed. Amazing place and happy to see it’s up and running again.
Yippee, my family also promised the "oath of vengence" and to give everything to the church so their bowels would not be ripped out!
Deb Delves lol what
Jake, you should read about the Oath of Vengeance and the temple endowment of oaths, promises and hand gestures of how your life will be taken if promises are not kept.
Deb Delves are these books sanctioned by the church?
Read LDS history. I hv a Seminary book from 1969 in which you would not recognize as teachings from today. What happened in the temple in the 80's and before is easy to find out. You really do not know about how your life will be taken if you don't keep all the promises you made in the temple? Many changes have been made because those promises are so Masonic and evil. I used to hv to obey my husband!.... not any more...veil my face? .... not anymore. The Bible tells us what it takes to be saved. We are saved by Grace and Faith in Jesus Christ and nothing more is needed...especially not a $3,000 fake flower adornment nor crystal chandeliers! Jesus taught the downtrodden, poor and lowly without all the crazy pomp.
As soon as you walk on the temple grounds you can feel the spirit 💜
Amen
This Temple is quite beautiful. Christmas is very decorated in the outside front areas with lights. And the view on the top of the hill is just spectacular especially at night. You can see across the bay to SF and the Bay and Golden Gate Bridges.
I love the oriental touches
I am Amazed at the Vast Beauty of this Temple. Just a Spectacular Piece of Architecture.
The lord's house is the best place where a person can spend his time to always feel the spirit
Please please- to the powers that be…. Preserve the ROUND Provo Temple! It has a purpose. It is one of a kind! Respect that architect as you did Burton here!
I visited this place when I was a kid
beautiful but no windows? that is weird
There are very airy sky lights in the design
It doesn't say you must be baptized to get into heaven
"Jesus answered, Verily, verily I say unto thee, Except a man be born of the water [baptism by water] and of the Spirit [baptism by the Holy Ghost], he cannot enter the kingdom of God." John 3:5
"Teach all nations, baptizing them in the name...." Matthew 28:19
"He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved." Mark 16:16
"But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God against themselves, being not baptized of him." Luke 7:30
"Repent and be baptized, every one of you." Acts 2:38
"Be baptized and wash away thy sins." Acts 22:16
"The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us...." 1 Peter 3:21
Great Blessing and joy peace
Soy de Colombia miembro Funza, Cundinamarca, quiero oír en español todo lo que muestran de la construcción de los Santos Templos, me enternece ver sus construcciones. Amo a mi Iglesia.
The morman church has something rhat most churches lack.A temple where people can be prepared for the world beyond.Not preaching, nothing else but the heavenly realm.As a student of inner spirituality i like this idea
QUE HERMOSO PERO DONDE ESTÁ EL ANGEL MORONI.
My family was sealed in the Oakland Temple in 1991. I did my first session of proxy baptisms there in 1996 as a young Deacon. I received my endowments there in 2003, and attended many weddings and cultural events there over the years as a young man and young adult. I have always LOVED SO MANY things about this place, and hope that everyone who has the opportunity to enjoy the Open House will do so. I have MANY family members in the Bay Area that are NOT members of the church who have visited the temple grounds over the years and wondered what it's like inside. I hope they will participate in the Open House.
We went to the open house and my daughter had to go to the bathroom during our tour, so she used the bathroom next to the sealing rooms. She was in there for a long time, so our group had already left. After leaving we asked them what their favorite part was, she said "the bathroom was so beautiful!"
I served my mission in Sacramento CA and this was our temple back then 2001-2003. It is such a special temple. The renovations are beautiful. :) #FaithToAct
Faith to Act My oldest daughter also served in Sacramento (Stockton) Spanish speaking from December 2001- July 2003.
@@helenjohnson7583 Yes I recall a Sister Johnson that spoke Spanish :) She may remember me as well.
Incredible beautiful spiritual holy
California has been blessed with some of the most iconic beautiful Temples in all the church in their state. Oakland, Los Angeles and San Diego Temples are amazing.
sacramento is also beautiful
The Provo Temple, that used to be the Tabernacle, is an achievement, I have never seen before! What an amazingly beautiful Temple it is!🌷🌻🌷Watch the making if it on UA-cam it is totally amazing !
And they only have to wash the poop of the sidewalk twice a week!
KevlarX2 yeah they look like cinderella castles so opulent and rich, there’s really nothing else like it as far as greatness and spaciousness since colonialism. They are truly beautiful and are something to be proud about it.
When I was a kid i thought it was nasa made another rocket
I’ve never seen a Church like this.
It’s amazing, and the location looks so pretty.
So many amazing moments would happen at this Church. Such a nice place for God and Jesus. 🙏🏼
That was my temple for 9 years. It is very special to me too. It doesn't look much different to me.
Amen 🙏
Thank you.
Is it still open?
Wow nice temple
House of the lord..
I remember going there as a kid with my family to the Open House prior to the dedication in 1964. I was baptized in December of that year and went there with Church groups as a youth, and then endowed there prior to serving a 2 year Mission for the Church. My siblings participated in Temple Pageants there. Later when my wife and kids lived in the Bay Area again, after college, etc. it was the Temple (and Multi-Stake Area Events Center) that we went to as often as we could. My parents also served as ordinance workers in this beautiful Temple for over 25 years. It is a very sacred and special place for my family. Thank Heaven it has been preserved and restored, including Oriental designs, and especially the exterior front water displays.
Can you smoke weed on the balcony area, since weed is legal now.
@@shakeemounwanda1720 lol wth is wrong with you
I just did an aerial drone flight around the church a few days ago...such an amazing place of God :)
Thank you God bless those always that way
This is where I and my husband was sealed. We were just a visitor but decided to be sealed here with only a friend in Oakland who became our witness. We didn't have a family because they're not a member. But we were blessed to be able to fulfill one of the most important parts of becoming a member. To be sealed for time and eternity.
I love the temple you can really feel the spirit of god
Beautiful
I see this weekly growing up
When is the open house, again?
It starts May 10 till beginning of June.
Going on now for a few more weeks.
This was our temple in our stakes in Salem, Oregon in the 1970s. I remember the nightlong trips in buses and maxi vans, then a day of ordinances, and another nightlong journey back to Salem, getting back home just in time to get ready for our sabbath meetings. It seemed like a small sacrifice back then, and oh so worthwhile. It brings tears to my eyes remembering. . .
That bridal room, 🤩 when I was young, we had mini youth conferences there, was also sealed to my parents & 2 older sisters long ago, sure miss those days… finding out later in life, the church isn’t for singles, it centers around the family, some of us really don’t have that family
I received my endowment for the first time in this beautiful temple. It ll always have a special place in my heart.
beautiful!
Been to this whited sepulchre many times. Glad to be rid of such psuedo-masonic nonsense and to have found Jesus grace. #jesusisenough
👍
1:20 wasn't looking and thought it was trump
This beautiful temple is highly visible from the freeways on either side of it.
I taught dance to children for a long time in the Laurel District, one freeway exit south of the temple. Sometimes little girls would come to class and excitedly tell me, "Teacher! I just saw a princess castle!"
I can see how the temple looks like a castle to children 😂❤❤❤
Lesson learned: when designing temples include windows and avoid fad-like features (doing so with the Provo and Ogden temples would have saved quite a bit of money in the cost of redesigning these two temples).
Cost of housing is so astronomical here, how can people afford to live here?
Moriah winegre
Looks tatarian and some free energy.😁
Do those spires power the church?
The only true peace is through the Prince Of Peace.
Mormon’s greatly believe. He is our Savior.
That would be sweet if it was all true
It's always nice seeing Emily in these videos. Any chance for a Cleveland-area redesign? ;)
So very beautiful...I hope to visit there one day
Yes :)
เพิมเพลงลูกทุงไห้ดัวยคับผม
la casa del señor, muy hermoso, me encanta.
Jesus was perfect, and he was perfect so he could give his perfection to us as a gift. Consider the completed action in this Scripture: For by a single offering he [Jesus] has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified (Hebrews 10:14).
Lucifer says, “Make you aprons.” In effect, do some of it yourself-it’s the only way to preserve some semblance of pride, dignity, and self-respect, and to gain for yourself what you need. That is quite consistent with the instructions every Latter-day Saint is given before going through the temple endowment ceremony.
Your Endowment is, to receive all those ordinances in the House of the Lord, which are necessary for you, to enable you to walk back to the presence of the Father, passing the angels who stand as sentinels, being enabled to give them the key words, the signs and the tokens, pertaining to the Holy Priesthood, and thus gain your eternal exaltation.
Jesus said, “It is finished” (John 19:30). In effect, “I’ve done it for you, all of it. Now are you willing to humble yourself enough to simply take it?”
As long as you are trying to contribute anything of your own to merit God’s provision of eternal life in His presence, you are rejecting the gift of Jesus Christ’s finished work on your behalf.
Jesus said: "Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest” (Matt. 11:28). (Nowhere in the Scriptures does Jesus say anything about an apron…or grips…or signs and tokens.) You can trust Jesus.
Ah, you don't read your scriptures, or you just gloss over certain scriptures that say that there ARE works to be accomplished: "If you love me keep my commandments." (Works) When the rich young man asked Jesus what he needed to DO to attain eternal life, Jesus quoted several of the Ten Commandments. The young man stated that he'd kept them from his childhood. (Again, WORKS). But Jesus added one more thing: to sell all that he had (a work) and give the money to the poor (a work) and to come, follow him. Jesus' Sermon on the Mount is filled with WORKS that must be accomplished. James said that "...faith without works is DEAD."
So are you buying your way into heaven with these works? Nope. What you're doing is learning how to purify yourself so that you can enter the kingdom of heaven, because no unclean thing can dwell with God. Jesus NEVER intended for us to sit back on our butts, drinking beer and watch football for the rest of our lives while HE does all the work.
Beautiful building. But I can’t imagine a building not having any windows. It would feel claustrophobic, almost like a mausoleum.
I used to smoke weed on the part upstairs. It was a beautiful thing.
So many hundreds of millions of dollars spent...instead of creating homes for those who are homeless and sick!! People in poverty would have seen the light of Christ had the money been given to people suffering!! Christ lived in poverty with just one robe..He DIDN'T want this!!
The LDS church donates millions of dollars every year to feed the hungry and alleviate suffering ANYWHERE in the world. They donate food, clothing, medicine, building materials, wheelchairs, volunteer labor ("Helping Hands"), volunteer medical care, and other services, like drilling wells for people in Africa and other disadvantaged nations and peoples, building dwellings and donating building materials. Whenever there's a catastrophe ANYWHERE in the world, the LDS church is usually the first on-site with food, clothing, medicine, etc.
The church's welfare system is SECOND TO NONE! Every Stake Center (an authority over several wards, or congregations) in the church has what's called a "Bishop's Storehouse" where food, clothing, furniture, etc. are given to the poor and destitute. In addition, the church sponsors NUMEROUS programs to help people become self-reliant.
In one year alone (I think it was 2012), the church's donations topped a billion dollars.
What more do you want?
What do YOU do to alleviate suffering around the world?
Amazing building but I guess everyone could do that with so much money.
Can someone tell me the reason for no windows in the majority of a Temple? I am genuinely curious, thank you
Many temples, such as the San Diego and the Newport Beach California Temples, have large windows in their Celestial Rooms facing toward the sun at midday, so that the beauty of natural light will enter the room, shining onto chandeliers and other decorative aspects of the room. The brightness of the gentle, naturally sparkling sunlight in the Celestial Room adds a beauty and stillness and peacefulness to the experience of just sitting and pondering in the quietness of the room. The serenity one feels in the Temples cannot be duplicated anywhere else.
The only reason I can think of that some temples appear to not have many windows might be because they are usually constructed of stone, typically granite, and some are constructed of large slabs, where putting in a window would not be practical. However, even though they have stone facings, many of the newer temples incorporate many large windows in their design. Since there are now many temples being constructed around the world each year, I suggest that you go to the Church’s website, churchofjesuschrist.org and look for the tab that takes you to the list of all of temples around the world, and find the newer ones, and you will most likely notice that the newer ones usually have many windows. 😊
Simply beautiful!!
They spent all that time and money to make it look like a 1960 building?
Terry Lee It WAS a 1960’s building. They considered making many changes in the renovation but most didn’t work, so the original design was preserved with only a few changes.
Absolutely beautiful 🤩
Thank you!
I was married there!
My parents were married in this temple ❤
You should spend as much trying to do something about the state of Oakland. It's a sewer.