The temple Syracuse
Twelve acres, ninety thousand square feet, and a spire above every rise in the city
The Syracuse Utah Temple, the tallest landmark in town
By every published dimension it is the largest building in Syracuse: 90,526 square feet on a twelve acre site, with a spire 219 feet 8 inches tall that rises above every other structure and every natural rise in the city. Dedicated in June 2025, clad in white granite cut in Italy and lit by faceted glass from Verona, it is easy to pick out from much of the west side of town, and it has become the fixed point that half the city steers by.
By Scott Buehler, Moving Utah
Updated October 2026
The short answer
The Syracuse Utah Temple is the tallest and largest structure in Syracuse, a landmark building at 1098 South 2500 West on the west side of town. It covers 90,526 square feet on a twelve acre site and rises 219 feet 8 inches to the tip of the spire, which stands well above every other building and every natural rise inside the city. Dedicated in June 2025, it is clad in white granite cut in Italy, with faceted art glass from Verona whose colors and plant motifs draw on the Great Salt Lake three miles west. The exterior, the grounds and the art glass can all be seen from the public street. If you want to walk the grounds, call the temple first, because it posts no grounds hours or visiting policy.
The landmark
The largest building in a city with no downtown
Syracuse is a flat, roughly four mile square of a city with no downtown, no shopping center of any size, and, until recently, nothing on the skyline taller than a water tank. Then a temple went up on the west side, and by every published dimension it is the largest structure in town: 90,526 square feet on a twelve acre site, rising 219 feet 8 inches to the top of the spire. It stands above every other building and above every natural rise inside the city limits, so it reads clearly from much of the western half of Syracuse and along the road out to the Antelope Island causeway. If you are new here and looking for a fixed point to navigate by, this is it.
The building was dedicated in June 2025 and it is finished, so there is nothing forthcoming about it. It was announced in the spring of 2020 and ground was broken in June 2021, and the public open house that let anyone walk through the inside ran to the end of May 2025, closing before the dedication. What is left for a passerby now is the exterior, the grounds and the art glass, all of which sit in plain view of a public street.
For a sense of scale, the temple's footprint is several times that of the city's regional museum complex, and its spire clears everything else in town by a wide margin. A building that size genuinely changed the western skyline of a small city. What it does not change is the ordinary business of a nearby address, which comes down to sight lines, evening light and what a quiet street is like at the hours a large site draws cars, and each of those is answered better by standing on the block than by reading a page.
White granite from the Apuan Alps, faceted crystal from Verona, terra cotta from New Mexico, and four wetland plants from the water three miles west.
What it is made of
White granite from Italy, faceted glass from Verona
For a building of any kind, the temple is unusually well documented. It is a steel-framed structure clad in White Moncini granite, a white stone quarried and cut in the Apuan marble country of Italy, above Carrara, and set by a mason from Utah County. The stone crossed an ocean; the hands that hung it came from Lindon. The walls read as flat panels rather than stacked courses because the granite is a skin over a steel frame, not the structure itself.
The art glass is faceted crystal rather than painted glass, fabricated in Verona, Italy, in blue, yellow, green, red, orange and white. Faceted crystal throws color instead of filtering it, so the windows change through the day and do their best work early and late rather than at noon. The design is not abstract: it draws on the Great Salt Lake, three miles west, and the wetlands along its shore. Four shoreline plants appear in the building, the snowball sand verbena, the desert paintbrush, the common cattail and reeds, and the greens, blues and yellows shifting through the glass are meant to echo the reflections of the lake. The reason given is the city's own long-standing nickname, the gateway to Antelope Island. It is the one large building in the county that treats the lake as a subject rather than a view.
The smaller materials are documented too. Terra cotta accents came from a tile works in Silver City, New Mexico. The grounds are edged by an open metal fence with precast columns along the street and a solid painted precast fence along the sides and back, which is why the site reads as open from the road and screened on its other three sides. The walkways are textured concrete with an etched, exposed-aggregate finish and manufactured stone pavers, a decision as much about grip and upkeep as appearance.
The details
Seeing it
How to find it, and how to see it
The temple sits at 1098 South 2500 West, a little over a mile north of City Hall and about five minutes away by car. 2500 West is a quiet north-south residential street on the west side of the grid, a few blocks north of Antelope Drive, which is the main east-west road and the one that carries traffic out to the causeway. The temple street itself is an ordinary neighborhood collector rather than an arterial, so the approach stays calm.
On whether you can walk the grounds, the honest answer is to call ahead. The temple's official listing carries the street address and a phone number and notes that reservations are available and walk-ins are welcome, but it posts no grounds hours, no visitor parking and no visitor center. The inside is not open for public tours now that the open house has closed. None of that limits what you came to see, though, because the stone, the fence, the walkway finish and the art glass are all visible from the public street.
The details
Grounds hours and visitor parking are not posted, so call the temple's listed number before planning a visit around the grounds. The interior is not open for public tours. Everything described here, the granite, the fence, the walkways and the art glass, can be seen from the public street, and the glass reads best in early or late light rather than at midday.
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Quick answers
The temple, answered
The Syracuse Utah Temple stands at 1098 South 2500 West, Syracuse, Utah 84075, a little over a mile north of City Hall and about five minutes away by car. 2500 West is a quiet north-south residential street on the west side of town, a few blocks north of Antelope Drive, the main road out to the Antelope Island causeway. Because it sits on flat, open ground with a spire close to 220 feet tall, it is easy to pick out from much of the western half of the city.
The temple was dedicated on June 8, 2025, following a public open house that ran from May 10 to May 31, 2025. The rest of the timeline: it was announced on April 5, 2020, and ground was broken on June 12, 2021. Both the open house and the dedication are now well in the past, so this is a finished, permanent building rather than a project still under way.
The building covers 90,526 square feet on a 12.268 acre site, and it rises 219 feet 8 inches to the top of the spire. That makes it comfortably the largest structure in Syracuse, several times the footprint of the regional museum complex and taller than anything else standing in town. Because it sits on flat, open ground with no hill or bench nearby to block the view, the spire reads clearly from much of the west side of the city and along the causeway approach.
It is a steel-framed building clad in White Moncini granite, a white stone cut in Italy and installed by a Utah County mason. The art glass is faceted crystal in blue, yellow, green, red, orange and white, fabricated in Verona, Italy. Terra cotta accents came from a tile works in Silver City, New Mexico. The walkways are textured concrete with an etched, exposed-aggregate finish and manufactured stone pavers, and the grounds are edged by an open metal fence with precast columns along the street and a solid painted precast fence along the sides and back.
Architectural Nexus was the architect, Robert McArthur Studios and Architectural Nexus handled the interior design, and Wadman Corporation was the general contractor. The exterior stone was fabricated by Campolonghi of Montignoso, Italy, and installed by IMS Masonry of Lindon, Utah. The art glass was designed by Architectural Nexus with Holdman Studios, fabricated by Progetto Arte Poli of Verona, and installed by Steel Encounters.
The design draws on the Great Salt Lake, three miles west, and the wetlands along its shore. Four plants of that shoreline appear in the building: the snowball sand verbena, the desert paintbrush, the common cattail and reeds. The greens, blues and yellows shifting through the art glass are meant to echo the reflections of the lake, a nod to the city's long-standing nickname as the gateway to Antelope Island. Three of the four plants grow right where the water meets the land.
The temple has not posted grounds hours or a public visiting policy, so the honest answer is to call ahead. Its official listing carries the street address and a phone number and notes that reservations are available and walk-ins are welcome, but it lists no grounds hours, no visitor parking and no visitor center. If you want to walk the grounds, phone first. The exterior stone, the fence, the walkways and the art glass are all visible from the public street in any case.
Yes, from a good deal of it. The spire reaches close to 220 feet, and it stands on flat, open ground with no hill or mountain front inside the city to block the view, so it shows from much of the western half of Syracuse and along the approach to the Antelope Island causeway. It is the tallest structure in a city that otherwise has no downtown and no tall buildings, which is what makes it a natural landmark to steer by.
The interior is not open for public tours. The chance to walk through the inside ended when the open house closed on May 31, 2025, before the dedication. What stays open to anyone is the exterior and, subject to the temple's own posted rules, the grounds, so the building works as a landmark to look at rather than a site to tour. For anything about access, the number on the temple's official listing is the place to check.
Ninety thousand square feet and four plants from the water three miles west
The most striking thing about this building is not its size, it is that whoever designed it looked west. The stone came from Italy and the glass from Verona, but the colors and the plant motifs came from a shoreline you can reach in a few minutes, which makes it the one large building in the county that treats the Great Salt Lake as its subject. If you are weighing an address on the west side of Syracuse, the questions worth asking are the sight lines, what the streets are like at the hours a big site draws traffic, and what is on the market nearby. Tell me what you are looking at, and I will connect you with a Davis County partner agent who knows these streets, and stay on the financing side myself.
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