3D print the Salt Lake Temple
A free, printable model of the Salt Lake Temple, with its six spired towers, and the lawns, streets and buildings around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About the Salt Lake Temple
The Salt Lake Temple stands in Salt Lake City, Utah, on Temple Square, and is a Latter-day Saint temple. It was dedicated in 1893 after 40 years of construction. It is the sixth temple the church completed and the fourth built after the Mormon exodus of the 1840s from Nauvoo, Illinois, to Utah. At 35,508.2 m² (382,207 sq ft), it is the biggest Latter-day Saint temple measured by floor area, and it is the centerpiece of Temple Square, which covers 4.0 ha (10 acres).
Brigham Young, who was the church's second president, marked the temple's location on July 28, 1847, four days after arriving in the Salt Lake Valley. Young presided at the groundbreaking ceremony and set the cornerstone in place on April 6, 1853. Truman O. Angell was the architect, and the building includes Gothic and Romanesque elements. Its walls are quartz monzonite, which looks like granite, from Little Cottonwood Canyon, which lies twenty miles southeast of the site. Oxen hauled the quarried rock at first; once the Transcontinental Railroad was close to finished in 1869, the rest came by rail.
Wilford Woodruff, who was the church's fourth president, laid the capstone, a granite sphere holding the statue of the Angel Moroni, on April 6, 1892. The statue is 3.8 m (12.5 feet) in height. Woodruff dedicated it on April 6, 1893, forty years to the day after the cornerstone was set. Some parts are thought to evoke Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem: the building is oriented toward Jerusalem, and its large baptismal basin rests on the backs of twelve oxen.
How it prints
Make this print opens the generator on a 600 m square around the landmark. Buildings print at close to true scale, so the landmark grows with the print size.
| Print size | Landmark height | Scale |
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| 160 mm default | 18 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 23 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 29 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Six slender spires
- Pointed spires with tiny finials crown the towers at each end. Print slowly with good cooling so the tips stay clean, and use Print friendly to adapt them to the print scale.
- Arched and round windows
- The walls carry rows of arched and round window details. Full detail keeps them on a larger print, ideally with 0.12–0.16 mm layers.
- One piece with the ground
- The Salt Lake Temple is joined to the ground in the exported file, and the four-side check found no floating parts, so nothing needs gluing.
- Pick the detail for your nozzle
- In the Buildings settings, set Landmark detail to Print friendly to adapt thin parts and small details to the print scale. Full detail keeps every modeled feature, for larger prints or a finer nozzle.
- Colors
- Buildings, roads, water and ground arrive as separate filament slots in the 3MF. The Salt Lake Temple takes the building color.
- File format
- You get a 3MF for Bambu Studio, OrcaSlicer or PrusaSlicer. Any of them can save it as STL if you need one.
About this model
The Salt Lake Temple is one of more than 2,300 landmark models in Mini Skyline. They are made with AI, and each one is checked from four sides in its real surroundings before release. Everything around it is built from OpenStreetMap and Overture map data. If you would rather print the shape from map data, turn off Landmark models in the Buildings settings.
Common questions
Is there a Salt Lake Temple STL I can download?
Mini Skyline builds the file for you in your browser and exports 3MF, which every major slicer opens. If you need an STL, open the 3MF in your slicer and export it from there.
How big can I print it?
Any print size from 40 mm across. The Salt Lake Temple grows with the print: about 18 mm tall on the default 160 mm print. For a model larger than your printer bed, Project Mode splits the area into tiles.
Is it free?
Yes. Generation runs in your browser, with no account and nothing behind a paywall.
