Gilbert AZ LDS Temple

I wish I could make a zero star! This place has destroyed the area and made Gilbert a worse place to live. It’s bad enough to have so many cult members in our schools, this makes living here so much worse. I think it is time to find a new place to live!

This temple is probably the most beautiful of all of the ones I have been to so far. I’m glad to have this temple and the Mesa temple so close to me.

Amazing building!!! The landscaping is amazing too. There are fountains and trees everywhere. Go there and walk around everyone is welcome and the people are kind.

Beautiful grounds. Nice quit peaceful feelings. Just loved to sit by the fountain and watch the light dance across the ripples.

This is a very impressive worship space, one which I was fortunate enough to visit just before it’s consecration a few months ago.
An LDS friend gave me a private grand tour and I came away very much amazed with all the work and effort put into this Temple. The only down side was my inability to take any pictures inside.
For those who know me, I would have normally have taken a couple of dozen pictures. So I was somewhat disappointed that it wasn’t allowed, per Mormon custom. But it was something which I respected on my visit.
This is also one of the largest temples I’ve ever seen and the grounds are massive. Probably on a par with the one in Las Vegas. The only other LDS Temple I’ve been inside, is one back in Glenview, Illinois, which is tiny by comparisons.
I left amazed and very impressed.

Awesome Temple, beautiful inside and out!

Loved visiting the open house. Came back often. It is absolutely gorgeous and the spirit of the Lord is evident.

All religious sentiments aside it’s a beautiful building with wonderful architecture, what an experience.

Great place for members to go, also a nice place for non-​members to walk around and see a beautiful building.

I have my own beliefs but am very curious and opened minded to other religions, and when I learned that the new Mormon Temple in Gilbert will be having opened tours for free to public from the middle of January to the middle of February, I knew I wanted to check it out. So I went to the web site and looked up tickets, spots where filling up fast, wound up getting 2 for Friday the 31^st at 8:45am, so I booked it and printed them out.
Friday came and off we went, when you print out the tickets: 1) it lets you know to dress in your Sunday best (yes I changed before I went to work later that day), 2) that once you arrive you will watch a 14 min video before your tour and 3) where to park, you should pay attention to the parking, the main parking lot fills up fast.
We were early but they took us right away, went into the visitor center/​gym area and was shown a seat, waited a few minutes for the room to fill up, then watched a 14 minute video which explained the reasons for the temples, and how the Mormons came to be, then we were told to wait for a usher to show us the way out.
It was like standing in line for a Disneyland ride, we followed the rest of the people up to the temple, before going in the sisters placed paper booties over our shoes, guess to keep things dirt free, and I don’t blame them. I’m not going to go play by play on the tour, but it was the most quietest tour I have ever been on, on this tour from room to room you get to read signs, and keep your questions at the end. While inside the temple, we did not go through the entire building, but did get to see quite a bit, the baptismal room, sealing room, the celestial room, changing rooms, upstairs, down stairs, around hallways, all while being completely quiet with 10 to 15 other people.
The Celestial room is bright, white and has an amazing crystal chandelier hanging in the center of room, long tall stain glass windows, white carpet, smaller replicas of the huge chandleries, this is the room one can feel closer to God, so I am now 100% sure God loves Bling, don’t worry big guy so do I :), the only thing that stood out to me was the blue flowered sofas that look like they were from the 70’s. And one other thing about the temple, the marble; it was the flooring, molding, and counter tops. This Temple, as a building is nicely done, it’s very beautiful and on the outside looks huge, but during the tour, what I saw was a bunch of little rooms/​offices, space not fully maximized, at least by my thoughts.
Had a great time touring the Temple and seeing how lush it is, at the end of it, whatever questions I had I let them go and just headed off to the car, it was a once in a lifetime experience for me, thank you Gilbert LDS Temple for giving me the chance to see your beautiful building before its blessed and the public no longer able to see it.

Certainly a stunning work if architecture. The fact that they opened it to the public for free tours for a month from Jan 15 to Feb 15^th is a very nice act of goodwill. Being curious of religions in general, we decided to check it out.
We went online to the Temple website and reserved two tickets for yesterday (Sat) for the 145pm tour. We tried to reserve 4 tix, but only 2 spots were available. We had the idea that they were taking in small groups, which made sense given how holy a temple is in the Mormon faith.
What actually happened:
We showed up around 140pm to crowds of people the likes of which I haven’t witnessed since going to Disney World during March break! There were THOUSANDS of people lined up everywhere trying to get in. We asked one of the dozens of helpful ushers where the forward thinking «reserved ticket holders» skip the huge lines and we were directed to the end of a different extremely long line. We were told from the point we entered would be about an hour wait! I don’t wait in line for ANYTHING longer than 20min. Nothing short of front row seats to an Eagles concert or an intimate evening with Morgan Freeman will have me stand in line that long excepting of course airport security or Customs. No amusement park ride, concert, club, Black Friday sale, restaurant, movie, Broadway show, grocery line, car wash, bank, coffee shop, NOTHING! Once I hit 20min or it’s obvious it will go at least that long… I’m out!
Then we saw another massive line outside the actual Temple. You see this was a two building your starting in a different building. The Temple was part two. Turns out according to the Ushers there would be yet another 30min wait to get in there as all comers had to don white booties to save the carpets inside. Again my 20min rule applied.
So needless to say we left and headed to an olive farm instead.
I suppose I could try to make another reservation during the week on my own as my wife works days, but it’s a really long drive and I’ve seen enough pictures of the breath taking interior on the internet. It really is amazing work.
All of is to say, if you have about 2 hours to fill in your life waiting in massive lines and finally getting in it’s a day trip not to miss!

Im not a religious person, but I work with a lot of people who are Mormon, so with all the buzz around the office I had to go check out this LDS Gilbert Temple, while the open house was going on. WOW! This place is amazing!!! The architecture is outstanding, marble floors, silk, crystals; no expense was spared when building this temple. I cant believe how elegant and breathtaking everything is. It took a lot of skilled people to put together this building and they definitely deserve massive recognition! I also would like to thank all the volunteers who made this open house possible, everyone was very kind, helpful and happy. Not once were we asked nor bothered about joining the Mormon faith, you can just come and look at it if you are curious and of course stay and ask question if you are interested in joining! LOL!
If you haven’t had a chance to make it out and look at this amazing building, if you’re religious or not, it is a sight worth seeing!