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Salt Lake Temple. Salt Lake Temple is the centerpiece of the 10-acre (4.0 ha) Temple Square in Salt Lake City, Utah. / 40.77056°N 111.89194°W / 40.77056; -111.89194. The Salt Lake temple was dedicated in 31 sessions held between April 6 and 24, 1893. The Salt Lake Temple is a temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ...
Downtown Salt Lake City. Coordinates: 40°46′10″N 111°53′28″W. Downtown cityscape in 2012 from the top of the LDS Church Office Building. Downtown (also called City Center) is the oldest district in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. The grid from which the entire city is laid out originates at Temple Square, the location of the Salt ...
Temple Square. / 40.77056°N 111.89250°W / 40.77056; -111.89250. Temple Square is a 10-acre (4.0 ha) complex, owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), in the center of Salt Lake City, Utah. The usage of the name has gradually changed to include several other church facilities that are immediately adjacent ...
In April 1999, the Salt Lake City council voted 5 to 2 along LDS membership lines to sell to the LDS Church the segment of Main Street that lay between Temple Square and the LDS Church office buildings for $8.1 million. The Church planned to build a large plaza on the land as well as a parking structure below.
Salt Lake Masonic Temple. / 40.76944°N 111.86972°W / 40.76944; -111.86972. / 40.76889°N 111.87222°W / 40.76889; -111.87222. The Salt Lake Masonic Temple is the Masonic headquarters for Utah and is Salt Lake City's best example of Egyptian Revival architecture. It was completed in 1927 and is located in the South Temple ...
History. The building was originally constructed by free masons between 1891 and 1894 to house offices for the city and county of Salt Lake and replace the Salt Lake City Council Hall and Salt Lake County Courthouse, both erected in the 1860s. Construction of the building was riddled with controversy. During the late 19th and early 20th ...
The Wells Fargo Center was the tallest building in Salt Lake City until 2023. This list of tallest buildings in Salt Lake City ranks skyscrapers in the U.S. city of Salt Lake City, Utah by height. The tallest building in the city is the Astra Tower, which rises 450 feet (137 m) and is set to be completed in 2024. [ 1]
Salt Lake City's street grid system is based on a standard compass grid plan, with the southeast corner of Temple Square (the area containing the Salt Lake Temple in downtown Salt Lake City) serving as the origin of the Salt Lake meridian. Owing to its proximity to the Great Salt Lake, the city was originally named Great Salt Lake City.