FARMINGTON, New Mexico — Embroidered around the flag of the Navajo Nation, which lies in the southwestern United States, is what Natives recognize as the Four Sacred Mountains of the Navajo.
“Those Four Sacred Mountains are our compass,” said Junior Pinto, a Navajo Latter-day Saint in Belen, New Mexico. Blanca Peak to the east; Mount Taylor to the south; the San Francisco Peaks to the west; Hesperus Peak to the north.
For generations, these surrounding mountains have represented the essence of life and served as anchors for physical and spiritual well-being.
And now members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints see a spiritual nucleus to this traditional compass: the soon-to-be-dedicated Farmington New Mexico Temple. Standing near the center of the Four Sacred Mountains, this house of the Lord is a new guide pointing Saints toward their heavenly home.