The Provo Utah Rock Canyon Temple is a temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints located in Provo, Utah, just north of Brigham Young University. The intent to build the temple was announced on August 14, 1967, by Hugh B. Brown and N. Eldon Tanner. The temple was designed by architect Emil B. Fetzer and was dedicated in 1972 as th…The Provo Utah Rock Canyon Temple is a temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints located in Provo, Utah, just north of Brigham Young University. The intent to build the temple was announced on August 14, 1967, by Hugh B. Brown and N. Eldon Tanner. The temple was designed by architect Emil B. Fetzer and was dedicated in 1972 as the church's seventeenth constructed and fifteenth operating temple. It was the sixth temple built in Utah, and the first in both Utah County and Provo.