 Like the groundbreaking in 2011, the cultural celebration occurred on the anniversary of the signing of the U.S. Constitution.The temple was formally dedicated by Eyring on September 18, 2016.In 2016 Inga Saffron, architecture critic for "The Philadelphia Inquirer", called the temple "the most radical work of architecture built in Philadelphia in a half-century ... because it dares to be so out of step with today's design sensibilities and our bottom-line culture."