Calgary has a temple, the 3rd for Alberta and it is a beauty! I took a photo with my cell phone and the sky was a beautiful blue...I haven't downloaded it yet. The next day I went with my 'big' camera and took these.
Note the wheat motif...it is throughout the building--celebrating the importance of agriculture in Alberta.
The main entrance (you can see the reflection of the passageway tents from the meetinghouse to the temple):
The temple is also built to honour our first temple in Canada/Alberta...the Cardston Temple:
In March 2012 it (the Calgary Temple) looked like this:
In 2010 the ground was broken for it:
The weather was wonderful. If you can go through the open house ('til October 20) do so! Here's a link to making a reservation (it so 30,000 people don't show up all at once...as of Sunday there had been 77,000 reservations made!) Free reservations for the open house can be made online through www.calgarymormontemple.org or by calling 1-855-537-2000.
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