Video Details

The original Apia Samoa Temple burned to the ground near the end of a remodel. This one was built in it’s place. I made this model, and I don’t really like the way the rendering turned out. However, after I finished the rendering I found that the model had become corrupt. I’m going to have to start over from the simpler model I made for Google Earth, I am afraid. Find that particular model here.

Audio

Water 1 – UncleSigmund
Lokelani Ambience – alchemical
Fiji Beach – c97059890

Technical

Modeled: Blender 2.63
Render: Cycles render engine

Temple History

Announced:

15 October 1977 (Ensign);
plans revised April 2, 1980

Groundbreaking:

2003, October 19
Dennis E. Simmons of the Seventy (gapages.com)

Public Open House: Dedication:

Aug. 5-7, 1983
Gordon B. Hinckley (gapages.com, MormonWiki)
7 sessions

Destruction by fire:
July 9 2003

Reconstruction

Announced:
2003, July 16

Groundbreaking:
2003, October 19
Dennis E. Simmons of the Seventy (gapages.com)

Public Open House:
2005, August 6-27

Dedication:
2005, September 4
Gordon B. Hinckley (gapages.com, MormonWiki)

Architecture

Site: 2 acres (1.7 acres original) acres
Exterior:

Original: “R-wall” exterior finish and insulation system on concrete block; split cedar shake

Current: Granite

Original Dimension: 143′Lx115′Wx78′H
Original Total Floor Area: 14,560²

Dimensions: 'Lx'Wx75'H
Total Floor Area(Official): 18,691ft²
Ordinance Rooms: Celestial room, two endowment rooms (rpogressive), two sealing rooms and baptistry
Architect:

Naylor, Wentworth, Lund

Original Architect:
Emil B. Fetzer, Church architect

 

 

Project Manager:

Original Project Managers:
Dale Cook and Richard Rowley

Construction Company:

Bud Baily Construction Inc

Original Contractor:
Utah Construction and Development

Address
Vaitele Street
Pesega, Apia
Samoa

Design

The Temple runs about about 24 Degrees counterclockwise rotation off a straight East-West orientation.

Spire

The spire is a single three stepped construction on the east center of the temple

Angel Moroni

The Angel Moroni Statue sits atop the single spire of the temple. the statue faces east-north east with the trumpet turned east-south east.

Angel Moroni Statue version 4
Either 9'9" or 7'
Karl A. Quilter
Commissioned in 1978

The Angel Moroni was undamaged after the 2003 fire. It was salvaged on July 24, 2003 and put in storage until it could be placed upon the new Apia temple on January 25, 2005.

House Of The Lord Holiness To The Lord

E PAIA I LE ALII
O LE MAOTA O LE ALII

 

There is one engraving on the Apia Temple. The engraving is on the center east north-east section of the temple underneath the spire. The Samoan Text is carved into the granite and painted black.

The Original Engraving sat to the right (North) of the entryway and were formed of raised brass, as was common with the pacific style temples.

Other Features

Entrance

East-Northeast Side of the Temple