Come explore the interactive Mesa Temple Visitors' Center, enjoy the peaceful temple grounds, and attend free community events like the Easter Pageant and Christmas Lights.
Join Simon Tipene Adlam, Director of the Arizona Museum of Natural History, for a dynamic presentation on how dinosaurs, deep time, and civic storytelling are shaping Mesa’s next century. From fossil beds to community futures, this talk explores why Arizona’s past—scientific, cultural, and spiritual—belongs at the heart of the American story.
This showcase of ancient history will be held on Thursday, January 29, at 7:00 PM at the Mesa Temple Visitors’ Center and is free to the public. All are welcome!
The Mesa Arizona Temple, dedicated in 1927, was the first temple built in Arizona. The temple grounds are home to beautiful gardens as well as two reflection pools. The annual Mesa Easter Pageant – the largest, annual outdoor Easter pageant in the world – is held on the north lawn and brings more than 100,000 attendees to 9 shows held during the two weeks before Easter each year. At Christmas, it boasts hundreds of thousands of twinkling Christmas lights and Biblical displays from the day after Thanksgiving through New Year’s Eve.
Visitors from all over the world come to this site for its beauty and religious significance. Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints practice sacred religious ceremonies inside the temple to bring themselves closer to God, while many tourists enjoy visiting the temple grounds and enjoy the nearby Visitors’ Center.
