1915-1923 (Greek Cross)

This new deign of temple, both of which were designed by the team of Pope and Burton, features a baptistry beneath a celestial room that sits at the very center of a Greek Cross (shaped like the symbol used for addition in math (+)). On each of the four arms there is one of the 4 endowment rooms. Like with prior temples featuring 4 room progression, there is an elevation change between each of the 4 rooms bringing you up from lower floors to be inline with the celestial room.

While very similar, the two plans are still different. The Laie temple has a central hallway that wraps around the celestial and baptistry, dividing those two rooms from the endowment rooms. The Cardston temple makes the rooms larger by having the rooms but up against the celestial, and fills the space between the four gables with stairs to go from room to room, as well as a stairway on each corner spanning the height of the whole temple.