The Mesa Arizona temple was announced on October 3, 2019. The Mesa Arizona Temple site dedication happen on November 28, 1921 by Heber J Grant. That makes the Arizona temple groundbreaking took place on April 25, 1922 by Hebrew J Grant. The later dedication of the Mesa Arizona Temple happen on October 23 through the 26, 1927 by Hebrew J Grant, there was a later temple open house from March 19 through April 3, 1975. The Mesa Arizona Temple dedication was on April 15 through the 16th 1975 by Spencer W Kimball. The public open house of the Mesa Arizona Temple was from October 16 through November 20, 2021. The rededication of the Mesa Arizona temple was on December 12, 2021 by Dallin H. Oaks.
The Mesa Arizona Temple architecture features a flat roof with sculpted friezes. The Mesa Arizona Temple has four instruction rooms, six ceiling rooms and one baptistery the total square foot of Arizona Temple is 75,000 ft.² that Mesa Arizona Temple sits at a height of 53 feet. The Mesa Arizona Temple elevation is at 1240 feet.
The Mesa Arizona temple is built on 20 acres. The Mesa Arizona Temple exterior is concrete reinforced with 130 tons of steel. The exterior is faced with glazed, egg shell colored terra cota tiles.
Located just east of the original Mesa Townsite—settled by pioneers of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints—the Mesa Arizona Temple anchors a historic district, which has predominantly retained its residential character. A public visitors’ center shares the meticulously manicured grounds of the temple, which feature a cactus garden and large reflection pools. The Easter season brings thousands of guests to the temple grounds every year to watch Jesus the Christ, the largest annual outdoor Easter pageant in the world. At Christmas time, the grounds are converted to an exquisite Nativity display accented by hundreds of thousands of Christmas lights.

The Mesa Arizona Temple was the first temple built in Arizona. The Mesa Arizona Temple was the first temple to present the endowment in a language other than English. The Mesa Arizona Temple was the first temple to reopen to the public for an open house prior to a rededication. The Mesa Arizona Temple was originally named the Arizona Temple. The presentation of the endowment was originally delivered by live acting in the Mesa Arizona Temple.
On the Mesa Arizona Temple there is arved friezes decorate each corner of the top of the temple, depicting the fulfillment of Isaiah’s prophecy that the Lord would gather His people in the last days from the four corners of the earth. The Mesa Arizona Temple was closed in February 1974, for extensive remodeling that equipped the Creation, Garden, and World Rooms for singleroom film presentation of the endowment; the Terrestrial Room became a veil room. The decaying burlap murals were removed from the rooms, and the salvageable pieces were shipped to Church headquarters for preservation and storage. A new entrance and an additional 17,000 square feet were added, providing larger dressing rooms and increasing the number of sealing rooms. In 1980, a fourth ordinance room was added by converting a space previously used by the female patrons. This allowed endowment sessions to begin every half hour. In 1991, the preserved sections of the original murals were sent back to the Mesa Arizona Temple for reinstallation and restoration. Only one wall in each room could be restored. The new ordinance room added in 1980, which did not have a mural before, was decorated with sections from the original World Room mural.
On May 19, 2018, the Mesa Arizona Temple closed for a threeandahalfyear renovation that included new roofing and drainage systems; upgrades to the mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and HVAC systems; interior improvements consistent with the historical character of the building; replacement of the furniture and finishes; preservation and augmentation of the historic murals; replacement of the windows consistent with the originals; an overhaul of the grounds that preserved shade trees, replaced reflection pools, introduced new garden spaces, and better accommodated the annual Easter Pageant; demolition of the onsite visitors’ center and construction of a new visitors’ center and Family Discovery Center street.