Rooms in the Manti Temple
The Manti Temple is only one of three temples that still does live endowments. (Where you go from one room to another during the endowment)
Main Hall
Assembly Hall
Baptistry
Spiral Staircase
Celestial Room
Garden Room
Small Sealing Room
Terrestrial Room
Wells Room/Sealing Room
World Room
Main Hall
Assembly Hall
Baptistry
Spiral Staircase
Celestial Room
Garden Room
Small Sealing Room
Terrestrial Room
Wells Room/Sealing Room
World Room
MANTI (a touch of history)
Manti is the county seat of Sanpete County, Utah. Manti, Utah, has a population in 1992 of approximately 2,000 people. It is situated in the Sanpete Valley of central Utah, at an elevation of slightly over 5,500 feet.
Manti was settled in late November 1849 by 224 men, women, and children. The group left the Valley of the Great Salt Lake on October 28. This, the first settlement south of Provo, Utah, resulted from a personal invitation from the Ute chief Walker in June 1849. He invited President Brigham Young of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormons) to send a colony of his people to join the encampments of Chief Sanpeetch's people already in the valley. Chief Walker and Brigham Young together are considered to be the founders of Manti.
The name "Sanpeetch" is uninterpreted. It may have meant or implied something to do with "red earth," but the meaning as far as it can be interpreted today has been lost. The river that drains the valley is still called "Sanpitch," but the name of the valley and the county has been modified to "Sanpete," spelled in one word with the stress on the first syllable.
Brigham Young named the site "Manti" in the summer of 1850, at the request of the local patriarch Isaac Morley. The name was derived from that section of the "Book of Mormon" called Alma. Jesse W. Fox surveyed the plat for the "city" in the same summer, and Manti was incorporated in February 1851. The first mayor was Dan Jones, the so-called "Welsh prophet," who was a native of Merthyr Tydvil, Glamorganshire, Wales.
A sizeable contingent of Danish converts to Mormonism arrived at Manti in 1853, to become the second largest ethnic group to settle central Utah.
The Walker War in the 1850s is believed to have been `pought about because of Chief Walker's anger that the Ute trade in Piute children with the Spanish traders from New Mexico was terminated by the territorial government. This followed the interception and arrest of a party of Spanish slave traders at the mouth of Salt Creek by a posse from Manti. A preliminary hearing was conducted at Manti, but the decision was made in the First District Court in Salt Lake City.
Three forts were constructed at Manti. The Little Stone Fort occupied the northwest quarter of block 64. The Log Fort was added to it on block 77, the block on which the Sanpete County Courthouse now stands. The Big Fort enclosed nine square blocks, which included the Little Stone Fort. It was erected in 1854. The center block of this fort was number 56.
The pioneer agricultural society at Manti lived within the town's limits and traveled afoot, by wagon, or on horseback to their outlying farmlands. This pattern persists, but in 1992 farmers ride to their lands by pickup trucks. Although no longer a tactic of defense, the practice of not living on farmlands continues, partly as a matter of habit and partly for social and religious (church) reasons.
Pioneer subsistence agriculture soon gave way to the production of grain for the market. The end of Indian hostilities in the 1870s opened adjacent mountain rangelands during the summer for a range livestock industry, mostly large sheep herds. Hay production increased subsequently. As the settlement grew, poultry production for both meat and eggs also increased in importance. Turkey raising and processing began just prior to World War II, and have become major enterprises since 1947. Irrigation of all croplands is necessary because the climate at Manti is semi-arid. During the 1980s irrigation practices converted from the ditch-and-furrow to the more sophisticated sprinkler types, both in town and farmlands. Sewer lines and natural gas were also introduced in those periods.
Between 1889 and about 1905 most Sanpete Valley towns experienced annual summer floods, which followed cloudbursts on overgrazed lands at elevations over 8,000 feet. In the 1890s the Manti City Council put into effect the political action that by 1903 resulted in the protection of its watershed by the federal Forest Service: the Manti National Forest.
The original settlers were of British stock, mostly Americans from New England and the Ohio Valley. Some arrived directly from Great Britain. In ensuing years emigrants arrived from Switzerland, Norway, and Sweden.
The first public transportation system into Manti was the Sanpete Valley Railway in 1880, from Nephi. This was a narrow-gauge rail line, which became standard gauge in 1896. The Denver and Rio Grande Western completed its line to Manti from Thistle Junction in 1890, and extended its operations beyond Manti the following year. The D&RG purchased the Sanpete Valley Railway in 1910, and immediately abolished its section between Ephraim and Manti.
The last passenger train left Manti for Salt Lake City in 1949. The entire rail connection to and beyond Manti was abandoned with the dramatic floods of 1983 and 1984, which washed out Thistle Junction completely.
Manti's connections with northern Utah today are by truck and private automobile along Highway U.S. 89 to Thistle, connecting with Interstate 15 at Spanish Fork. The other route follows the traditional pioneer trail along Utah Highway 128 to Interstate 15 at Nephi.
The most obvious cultural feature at Manti is the Mormon temple, begun in 1877 and dedicated in 1888. The Patten house (1854), constructed by John Patten of pioneer rubble rock, is a museum, a gift to Manti from the Utah State American Revolution Bicentennial Commission in 1976, with supplementary help from private donors.
Albert Antrei
A Manti Session 2007
Manti is the county seat of Sanpete County, Utah. Manti, Utah, has a population in 1992 of approximately 2,000 people. It is situated in the Sanpete Valley of central Utah, at an elevation of slightly over 5,500 feet.
Manti was settled in late November 1849 by 224 men, women, and children. The group left the Valley of the Great Salt Lake on October 28. This, the first settlement south of Provo, Utah, resulted from a personal invitation from the Ute chief Walker in June 1849. He invited President Brigham Young of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormons) to send a colony of his people to join the encampments of Chief Sanpeetch's people already in the valley. Chief Walker and Brigham Young together are considered to be the founders of Manti.
The name "Sanpeetch" is uninterpreted. It may have meant or implied something to do with "red earth," but the meaning as far as it can be interpreted today has been lost. The river that drains the valley is still called "Sanpitch," but the name of the valley and the county has been modified to "Sanpete," spelled in one word with the stress on the first syllable.
Brigham Young named the site "Manti" in the summer of 1850, at the request of the local patriarch Isaac Morley. The name was derived from that section of the "Book of Mormon" called Alma. Jesse W. Fox surveyed the plat for the "city" in the same summer, and Manti was incorporated in February 1851. The first mayor was Dan Jones, the so-called "Welsh prophet," who was a native of Merthyr Tydvil, Glamorganshire, Wales.
A sizeable contingent of Danish converts to Mormonism arrived at Manti in 1853, to become the second largest ethnic group to settle central Utah.
The Walker War in the 1850s is believed to have been `pought about because of Chief Walker's anger that the Ute trade in Piute children with the Spanish traders from New Mexico was terminated by the territorial government. This followed the interception and arrest of a party of Spanish slave traders at the mouth of Salt Creek by a posse from Manti. A preliminary hearing was conducted at Manti, but the decision was made in the First District Court in Salt Lake City.
Three forts were constructed at Manti. The Little Stone Fort occupied the northwest quarter of block 64. The Log Fort was added to it on block 77, the block on which the Sanpete County Courthouse now stands. The Big Fort enclosed nine square blocks, which included the Little Stone Fort. It was erected in 1854. The center block of this fort was number 56.
The pioneer agricultural society at Manti lived within the town's limits and traveled afoot, by wagon, or on horseback to their outlying farmlands. This pattern persists, but in 1992 farmers ride to their lands by pickup trucks. Although no longer a tactic of defense, the practice of not living on farmlands continues, partly as a matter of habit and partly for social and religious (church) reasons.
Pioneer subsistence agriculture soon gave way to the production of grain for the market. The end of Indian hostilities in the 1870s opened adjacent mountain rangelands during the summer for a range livestock industry, mostly large sheep herds. Hay production increased subsequently. As the settlement grew, poultry production for both meat and eggs also increased in importance. Turkey raising and processing began just prior to World War II, and have become major enterprises since 1947. Irrigation of all croplands is necessary because the climate at Manti is semi-arid. During the 1980s irrigation practices converted from the ditch-and-furrow to the more sophisticated sprinkler types, both in town and farmlands. Sewer lines and natural gas were also introduced in those periods.
Between 1889 and about 1905 most Sanpete Valley towns experienced annual summer floods, which followed cloudbursts on overgrazed lands at elevations over 8,000 feet. In the 1890s the Manti City Council put into effect the political action that by 1903 resulted in the protection of its watershed by the federal Forest Service: the Manti National Forest.
The original settlers were of British stock, mostly Americans from New England and the Ohio Valley. Some arrived directly from Great Britain. In ensuing years emigrants arrived from Switzerland, Norway, and Sweden.
The first public transportation system into Manti was the Sanpete Valley Railway in 1880, from Nephi. This was a narrow-gauge rail line, which became standard gauge in 1896. The Denver and Rio Grande Western completed its line to Manti from Thistle Junction in 1890, and extended its operations beyond Manti the following year. The D&RG purchased the Sanpete Valley Railway in 1910, and immediately abolished its section between Ephraim and Manti.
The last passenger train left Manti for Salt Lake City in 1949. The entire rail connection to and beyond Manti was abandoned with the dramatic floods of 1983 and 1984, which washed out Thistle Junction completely.
Manti's connections with northern Utah today are by truck and private automobile along Highway U.S. 89 to Thistle, connecting with Interstate 15 at Spanish Fork. The other route follows the traditional pioneer trail along Utah Highway 128 to Interstate 15 at Nephi.
The most obvious cultural feature at Manti is the Mormon temple, begun in 1877 and dedicated in 1888. The Patten house (1854), constructed by John Patten of pioneer rubble rock, is a museum, a gift to Manti from the Utah State American Revolution Bicentennial Commission in 1976, with supplementary help from private donors.
Albert Antrei
A Manti Session 2007
I just wanted to share what I learned about the Manti Temple when Brandon and I went to do a session tonight!
It was erected in 1888! Amazing huh? Itwas the 3rd temple built. (St. George and
Logan already existed!) It was built using the same architecture as the Logan
Temple, which explains why I think it is about the most majestic building I have ever seen.
This is way cool! NO power-tools were used in any part of the construction or interior decorations of this temple. And all moldings, paintings, wood, everything was done by members who were considered artisans at that time. There is no way for me to tell you what the inside was like! I have never seen ceilings and crown molding, and wood work, that even comes close to comparing, not even in other LDS Temples. Even the hinges on the 16 foot doors to each room, were intricately engraved. When we were escorted into the Telestial Room (Live sessions). Everyone gasped! If I hadn’t been in the Celestial Room yesterday, I would not have believed it possible to surpass the Telestial Room in beauty. Every piece of furniture was made by hand too. Nothing and I mean nothing was made with a power-tool. I just wish I could have pictures of all the ceilings. They really put Michael Angelo to shame. I asked Brandon if we could make the hour and a half drive once a month, because I am truly in love with this place! and hey there was that AWESOME mexican restaurant there, so I don’t think we will have trouble getting the Powell’s or the Ballard’s to go with us! I think when all of you visit Utah, you should just plan on doing a session with us and will treat you to the yummiest dinner ever.
One more cool story! The Sealer from yesterday, who cried when my young children walked into the Sealing Room so reverently and well-behaved, was called and set-apart by President Hinkley 21 years ago and has been a sealer ever since. Our kids thought it was cool that, the now President of our church had called our Sealer.
Being there on Valentines Day was soooo special. I was baptized on Valentines Day, and went through the temple with Brandon (Jordan River) Valentines Day Weekend. (I already had a endowment date scheduled when I met Brandon. I was ready to go through on Valentine’s by myself. Our current Bishop counseled all the graduating BYU senior women who were going to receive their BS before their MS. to take out endowments before graduating-----In other words, I was a spinster! NICE! Brandon proposed the first week of February, so he was able to do all that special stuff a fiancee gets to do in the temple.) Anyway, now this on Valentines! I am so blessed! And I have now not drank coffee for 16 years!! Wahooooooo!
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It was erected in 1888! Amazing huh? Itwas the 3rd temple built. (St. George and
Logan already existed!) It was built using the same architecture as the Logan
Temple, which explains why I think it is about the most majestic building I have ever seen.
This is way cool! NO power-tools were used in any part of the construction or interior decorations of this temple. And all moldings, paintings, wood, everything was done by members who were considered artisans at that time. There is no way for me to tell you what the inside was like! I have never seen ceilings and crown molding, and wood work, that even comes close to comparing, not even in other LDS Temples. Even the hinges on the 16 foot doors to each room, were intricately engraved. When we were escorted into the Telestial Room (Live sessions). Everyone gasped! If I hadn’t been in the Celestial Room yesterday, I would not have believed it possible to surpass the Telestial Room in beauty. Every piece of furniture was made by hand too. Nothing and I mean nothing was made with a power-tool. I just wish I could have pictures of all the ceilings. They really put Michael Angelo to shame. I asked Brandon if we could make the hour and a half drive once a month, because I am truly in love with this place! and hey there was that AWESOME mexican restaurant there, so I don’t think we will have trouble getting the Powell’s or the Ballard’s to go with us! I think when all of you visit Utah, you should just plan on doing a session with us and will treat you to the yummiest dinner ever.
One more cool story! The Sealer from yesterday, who cried when my young children walked into the Sealing Room so reverently and well-behaved, was called and set-apart by President Hinkley 21 years ago and has been a sealer ever since. Our kids thought it was cool that, the now President of our church had called our Sealer.
Being there on Valentines Day was soooo special. I was baptized on Valentines Day, and went through the temple with Brandon (Jordan River) Valentines Day Weekend. (I already had a endowment date scheduled when I met Brandon. I was ready to go through on Valentine’s by myself. Our current Bishop counseled all the graduating BYU senior women who were going to receive their BS before their MS. to take out endowments before graduating-----In other words, I was a spinster! NICE! Brandon proposed the first week of February, so he was able to do all that special stuff a fiancee gets to do in the temple.) Anyway, now this on Valentines! I am so blessed! And I have now not drank coffee for 16 years!! Wahooooooo!
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