Moses Lake Washington Temple
[6] A groundbreaking ceremony, to signify the beginning of construction, was held on October 10, 2020, conducted by David L. Stapleton, a church area seventy.[4] On April 7, 2019, during general conference, church president Russell M. Nelson announced plans to construct the Moses Lake Washington Temple.[4] The building has a traditional Latter-day Saint temple design, created by the Salt Lake City-based architectural firm CRSA.The design uses elements representing the heritage of the Moses Lake region, providing spiritual meaning to the temple's appearance and function.Symbolism is important to church members and includes the interior and exterior decorative motifs, which feature prevalent crops in the region,[4] as well as the prairie-style patterned borders on the art glass windows, which represents "the Native Americans who inhabited the Moses Lake area long before the first farm was settled.