Oakland Temple

I needed to come to California for work and due to the schedule I had to stay over the weekend. Since I had a Saturday available and I was only about 30 minutes away from the Oakland Temple, I took advantage of the opportunity and went to the temple. It was a great experience and a lovely temple. It is one of the larger temples and one of the few that does not have Angel Moroni on the top of it. It was dedicated in 1964 so it is older than I am. It is interesting because it has a 1960's feel to the design, including the Celestial Room.

This is the front of the temple. The sun was bright and with the little digital camera I have with me it was hard to see the screen so I was hoping the pictures would turn out. One of the advantages of the SLR camera is even in bright sunlight just by looking in the viewfinder it is possible to see what you are taking a picture of.

The Oakland Temple has a terrace and the public has access to it. This is a picture taken from the terrace. The parking lot was full and it was really crowded with all the wedding parties there. June is the time for weddings.

The spires from the Terrace. I am surprised this turned out as well as it did because I could not see the camera screen.

A wedding party leaving the front entrance of the Oakland Temple.

The Oakland Temple from the front. It was a good day for pictures even though I did not have a great camera to take them with.