Baton Rouge, Louisiana
June 25, 2011With my Wife and Daughter.
Baton Rouge is one of the small Temples. The glass is stained, rather than etched. The windows sit near ground level, stretching from floor to ceiling within the rooms. The decorative circles are below the inverse stepped trim, as opposed to some of the small temples, where they reside above. The temple itself sits on low ground, next to a chapel which, unusually occupies high ground, nearly as tall as the temple proper.
Birmingham, Alabama
June 24, 2011With my Wife and Daughter.
Birmingham sits nestled in a small valley, surrounded on 2 sides by hills that are taller than it. The circles on the temple are under the inverted stepped trim. This puts the windows down to ground level, allowing them to be Floor to ceiling inside the temple. The windows are stained glass.
Boston, Massachusetts June 11, 2011
With my Wife and Daughter.
The base of the temple is a rough hewn stone with finished edges. this seems typical of colonial era buildings, where the foundation was not going to be prominent but still needed a good fit. The difference being that on the temple the finished edges have been polished to a shine. above this are fine cut blocks, but with a rough finish. This gives way near the top to a polished stone of the same size and shape.
The tower starts with the medium finish stone, and goes to polish stone for a longer period. Additionally the tower pillars are increasingly more intricate in their carvings as you go higher.
This over all gives the feeling that the temple is in progress, growing out of the mountain.
Boston, Massachusetts With my Wife and Daughter.
The base of the temple is a rough hewn stone with finished edges. this seems typical of colonial era buildings, where the foundation was not going to be prominent but still needed a good fit. The difference being that on the temple the finished edges have been polished to a shine. above this are fine cut blocks, but with a rough finish. This gives way near the top to a polished stone of the same size and shape.
The tower starts with the medium finish stone, and goes to polish stone for a longer period. Additionally the tower pillars are increasingly more intricate in their carvings as you go higher.
This over all gives the feeling that the temple is in progress, growing out of the mountain.
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