Be part of something meaningful and beautiful
Temple at the Delle
Do you want to be part of something meaningful and beautiful? You can be. Let’s build an open-air temple that belongs to everyone as a sacred space of peace and healing. Let’s just use mushrooms and Utah juniper. And let’s pack it full of good intentions.
Grow a Brick
To be part of this exciting project, you can grow a mushroom brick, including in the brick something personal to you. Other than your personal item, we will send you everything you need: mushroom mycelium (non-edible reishi), hardwood pellets, a brick mold, gloves, and instructions. It will take you less than one month to grow your brick.
Your donation for the kit will be used to build the temple, ponds, paths, gardens, and amenities at the Delle, the temple’s site. It is located one hour west of Salt Lake City, where people gather in various ways to worship, play and connect.
A project that is easy and family-friendly
Whether it is time or money, give what you can
Make a Donation
Let’s make a match. Some people don’t want to grow a brick, but have money to contribute toward the project. Others want to grow a brick, but are not able to make a donation at this time.
If you are the first part of that match, feel free to be as generous as you like. If you are the second part of that match, please give us your name and order information.
As people make donations to cover brick costs, we will ship out kits.
Honor a life-event or a person by adding something to the brick material like a photo, an announcement, or a small piece of cloth
Details about Growing a Brick
Once you order your brick, a kit will be sent to you, containing:
mushroom mycelium (non-edible reishi)
hardwood pellets
a box mold
gloves and
instructions
Return the brick (by mail or in person), and it will become part of the temple.
Personalize your brick, by adding a compostable item to be memorialized in the structure. Want to add a wedding announcement, a photo, a piece of a baby blanket, a lock of hair, a mantra, a goal, a manifestation, a habit you are letting go or picking up? Details of how to do that are found on the instruction page.
Watch this short video about the plans for the open-air temple (3 minutes).
Want to learn more? This button takes you to an hour-long conversation about the temple, its inspiration, and plans for the execution.
By using the existing characteristics of the space, such as the mountains, plains, sunset and sunrise, the equinoxes and soltices, the circular design was created
The Open-Air Temple
“Circular spaces are a very human, spontaneous, and non-hierarchical way to gather, as opposed to sequential spaces that are divided and generate areas of higher and lesser importance,” says Ro Bandeirinha, the temple’s architect.
To bring us back to our spiritual and communal roots, Ro designed the temple as a circle, with unobstructed views of the heavens. No circle closes entirely, as the temple radiates outward, with benches and gathering spots to accommodate any and all. The temple’s 10-foot inner wall opens to the west, aligned to the setting sun of the equinox. To the east—the inner wall offers latticed views of the Lakeside Mountains on the border of the Great Salt Lake.
With Ro’s guidance, let’s build an open-air temple in Utah’s west desert. It will be simple, to highlight the serenity of the Delle and the majesty of the individuals who visit. Let’s limit our materials to just mushrooms and juniper, inviting intentions, goodwill, and love to make it special and, perhaps, holy. We will leave out dogma, so individuals will be free to bless the site—and those who visit it—in their own individualized way. We can use this non-denominational temple to connect with ourselves, others, and the Divine.
Let’s allow the temple project to build us, as we gather to make friends and find community.
Art and Worship
The temple belongs to—and includes—everyone who builds a brick, everyone who contributes, everyone who visits the temple, and everyone who blesses it with their thoughts and good intentions. People are sacred, and people will make the temple sacred.
TDA co-founder, Steve Urquhart, said, “The temple’s circular design reflects the ease of worship. Radiating ever-outward, like a mandala, the design highlights that everyone fits. Brick by brick, mystic by mystic—precious individual by precious individual—Ro’s simple temple integrates the best of humanity into the storied land art of the Great Salt Lake and bridges that span between humans and the Divine.”