The Salt Lake Temple

The Salt Lake Temple

The Salt Lake Temple is the most recognized symbol of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. It is the Church's spiritual heart, and is designed for administration as well as worship. In its role as an administrative headquarters, the Salt Lake Temple has an entire floor dedicated to offices and meeting rooms for the leaders of the Church.

With its annex, offices and additions the Salt Lake Temple is the largest in the Mormon Church. The Salt Lake Temple took 40 years to build. The original foundation was removed and rebuilt to make it stronger. Construction was interrupted on several occasions, once because of the "invasion" of Johnson's Army, and again to complete the transcontinental Rail Road.

While the exterior took 39 years to build, the interior of the temple was completed in just one year. The murals in the Garden and World Rooms were begun in January 1893 and completed in time for the dedication on April 6. The Artists were all part of a unique program of the Church known as the Paris Art Mission. Five Utah Mormon artists, Edwin Evans, John B. Fairbanks, John Hafen, Lorus Pratt and Dan Weggeland, were sent to Paris to study art for the express purpose of returning to paint the Salt Lake Temple Murals. All five collaborated on the Garden Room mural, while Edwin Evans, John B. Fairbanks and Dan Weggeland worked together on the World Room. The Creation Room mural was painted at a later date.

The temple is built from granite quarried in Little Cottonwood Canyon, the quarry has been reopened to supply stone for the new Assembly Hall.

The temple was announced in July 1847, when Brigham Young stuck his cane into the ground and said "Here we will build a temple to our God".

Ground was broken and construction begun on February 14th, 1853.

The cornerstone was laid in April of 1853.

The temple was dedicated in April of 1893.

There are 253,015 square feet in the temple, including the annex. The tallest (east center) tower is 210 feet.

1. The Salt Lake Temple took ____ years to build.

10
20
30
40

2. The Temple was completed in ____.

1893
1847
1863
1849

3. The artisans who worked on the Temple were sent to ____ to study.

St. George
Paris
London
Fillmore

4. Granite for the Temple was quarried in ____.

Paris
Little Cottonwood Canyon
what is now Midvale
Emigration Canyon

5. The cornerstone was laid in ____.

1803
1873
1853
1843

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