Salt Lake Tabernacle

The Salt Lake Tabernacle
Mormon Tabernacle
The exterior of the Tabernacle in December 2008
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Location50 W. North Temple
Salt Lake City, Utah
Coordinates40°46′13.5″N 111°53′35.3″W / 40.770417°N 111.893139°W / 40.770417; -111.893139
Public transitTemple Square Trax Station
OwnerThe Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
TypeAuditorium
Seating typeReserved by Section
Capacity3,500 (after 2007 renovation)[3]
Construction
Broke groundJuly 26, 1864[2]
OpenedOctober 6, 1867 (First General Conference held)
October 9, 1875 (building dedication)[1]
ArchitectHenry Grow
Truman O. Angell (1870 gallery addition)
with contributions from William Folsom and Brigham Young[1]
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Salt Lake Tabernacle
The Salt Lake Tabernacle, taken in the 1870s as part of a series of photos for the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad (established in 1870), showing granite blocks for the construction of the Salt Lake Temple (completed in 1893).

The Salt Lake Tabernacle, formerly known as the Mormon Tabernacle, is located on Temple Square in Salt Lake City, in the U.S. state of Utah. The Tabernacle was built from 1863 to 1875 to house meetings for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). It was the location of the church's semi-annual general conference until the meeting was moved to the new and larger LDS Conference Center in 2000. Now a historic building on Temple Square, the Salt Lake Tabernacle is still used for overflow crowds during general conference. It is renowned for its remarkable acoustics and iconic pipe organ.[4][5] The Tabernacle Choir has performed there for over 100 years.[6]

  1. ^ a b "History of the Tabernacle". MormonNewsroom.org. LDS Church. Retrieved 25 July 2018.
  2. ^ Hamilton, C. Mark. "Utah History to Go: Temple Square". Retrieved 25 July 2018.
  3. ^ Stolz, Martin (2 April 2007). "After Two Years of Work, an Updated Tabernacle". New York Times.
  4. ^ Rollins, Sarah (21 November 2005). Acoustics of the Salt Lake Tabernacle: Characterization and Study of Spatial Variation (MS thesis). Brigham Young University. hdl:1877/etd1113. Retrieved 16 April 2022.
  5. ^ Hales, Wayne B. (1930). "Acoustics of the Salt Lake Tabernacle". The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 1 (2A): 280–292. doi:10.1121/1.1915181.
  6. ^ "The Remarkable Acoustics of the Salt Lake Tabernacle". Mormon Tabernacle Choir. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 22 May 2014. Retrieved 13 April 2022.