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Located at Via de Settebagni 376 in northeast Rome near the village of La Cinquina Bufalotta, the temple sits on an elevated 15-acre parcel just off the A90 Grande Raccordo Anulare beltway-also known as “Il Raccordo” (“The Junction”)-that surrounds the city. Other interior features include the instruction room mural featuring Italian landscape scenes from the sea to the hills, the Baroque-style bridal room with its crystalline sconces and hand-painted chairs, the crystal chandelier and artisan-crafted furnishings of the celestial room, sculpted off-white carpets in the celestial and sealing rooms, an elliptical font with inlaid stones and Roman-style acanthus leaves in the baptistry, and original paintings throughout the temple. The staircase’s oval design suggests the Michelangelo-designed Piazza del Campidoglio and its ramped staircase near Rome’s Capitoline Hill. The sun sets behind the Rome Italy Temple nearing completion on April 15, 2018. The statues of Peter, James, and John-three of Thorvaldsen’s ancient Apostles statues-are in the Rome Italy Temple Visitors’ Center. The grand staircase of the lobby of the Rome Italy Temple. “It’s connected just at the top and the bottom, so it’s essentially a free-floating staircase-and of course, an elliptical shape,” he said. The grand staircase in the temple’s lobby is considered an engineering feat, said project supervisor Bret Woods. Materials include Perlato Svevo stone flooring quarried in northern Tuscany Cenia marble from Spain Sapele, burl, and cherry wood millwork and Murano glass fixtures from Venice. The temple’s predominant colors inside are earth tones and blues, bronzes, and gold throughout. Visitors to the Rome Italy Temple are greeted at the entrance by a floor-to-ceiling stained-glass wall featuring a scene of the life of Jesus Christ, with additional art-glass throughout inspired by the olive tree and its leaves.

And that started this very early concept of a curved church, a curved temple and temple building both on the exterior as well as on the interior.” Interior Valentiner said the temple’s design was inspired by San Carlino, a Roman Catholic church in Rome, with “the curved ceilings, the curved walls, the expression of the colonnades and columns. They would recognize it because of the materials, because of the design, and because of the surrounding.” Said architect Neils Valentiner: “This had to be one that when you walked onto this site, every person should feel like they were on an Italian site.

The three-story, 40,000-square-foot temple features architecture inspired by ancient Rome and an exterior of Bianco Sardo granite.

“The craftmanship is expert and perfect.” Design and exterior Bednar of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, who serves as chairman of the Temple and Family History Department, as quoted by Newsroom. In conjunction with the start of the open house, the Church posted photos of the temple’s exterior and interior early Monday, January 14, on its Newsroom website.

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The public phase of the Rome Italy Temple has begun, with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints opening its new sacred edifice in the Eternal City for the next four-plus weeks for a series of open house tours. Watch a video about the Rome Italy Temple.