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The Ogden Tabernacle Choir and Organ in 1914. The tabernacle was remodeled by adding cupolas, new decorative entrances, and a semi-circle rear addition in 1896, [3] and continued to serve as stake tabernacle until 1956 when a new tabernacle for the Ogden Stake was completed and dedicated. The old tabernacle was for a time abandoned, and then ...
The estimates are based on human seating capacity in a single service. Churches with multiple consecutive services will be for only one service. For example, Faith Tabernacle, which holds four services every Sunday in its 50,000 capacity auditorium will be included as having 50,000 and not 200,000 in the list. [7] [8]
The last tabernacle commissioned by the church was the Ogden Stake Tabernacle, built in 1956. While some tabernacles are still used for a few ecclesiastical and community cultural activities, stake centers are now normally used in their place.
English: Buildings (past and current) located on the Ogden Utah Temple block, including the existent Ogden Tabernacle. Dashed outlines are buildings no longer present as of the 2014 remodel. Dashed outlines are buildings no longer present as of the 2014 remodel.
The site was a 10-acre (40,000 m 2) lot called Tabernacle Square that the church had owned since the area was settled. In 1921, church president Heber J. Grant inspected it as a possible temple site, but decided the time was not right to build. [8] At the time of construction, the Ogden Temple differed from those built previously.
Prior to its refurbishing in 2007, the overall seating capacity of the building was around 7,000, which included the choir area and gallery . Henry Grow, a civil engineer, oversaw the initial construction of the Tabernacle, where the domed roof was the most innovative portion of the building.
On October 1, 2011, it was announced at the church's general conference that the Provo Tabernacle would be converted into Provo's second temple. Completed in 2016, the Provo City Center Temple utilizes much of the external shell of the tabernacle, all that remained of the original building after a fire in December 2010.
The 1,400,000-square-foot (130,000 m 2) Conference Center seats 21,200 people in its main auditorium.This includes the rostrum behind the pulpit facing the audience, which provides seating at general conference for general authorities and general officers of the church and the 360-voice Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square.