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The Gilgal Sculpture Garden is a small public city park, located at 749 East 500 South in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States.The park, which is filled with unusual symbolic statuary associated with Mormonism, notably to the Sphinx with Joseph Smith's head, was designed and created by LDS businessman Thomas Battersby Child, Jr. (1888-1963) in his spare time.
Central City: 172: Salt Lake City East Side Historic District: Salt Lake City East Side Historic District: August 22, 1996 : Roughly bounded by South Temple, 1100 East, 400 South, University Ave., 900 South, and 500 East
The church's top leadership, known as general authorities, hold a weekly meeting in the nearby Salt Lake Temple. During the 2020s, when the temple was closed due to a large-scale renovation project, the eighth floor of the Joseph Smith Memorial Building underwent an estimated $2,000,000 remodel, after which it was dedicated as a sacred meeting ...
The Salt Lake City Cemetery is in The Avenues neighborhood of Salt Lake City, Utah. Approximately 120,000 persons are buried in the cemetery. Many religious leaders and politicians, particularly many leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) lie in the cemetery. It encompasses over 250 acres (1.0 km 2) and contains ...
The South Temple Historic District is a 119-acre (48 ha) historic district that was the first to be listed in the Salt Lake City Register in 1976, [2] and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. [1] It includes 106 contributing buildings, including the Governor's Mansion [2] and the Salt Lake Masonic Temple. [1] It includes:
Smith Apartments is a historic three-story building in Salt Lake City, Utah. It was built as a U-shaped residential building by Andrew and James E. McDonald in 1908, and designed in the Prairie School style by architects Walter E. Ware and Alberto O. Treganza . [ 2 ]
Following his artistic training, Mahonri Young returned to his native Salt Lake City and began to seek out work. Young approached leaders of the church about creating a life-sized statue of Joseph Smith, using Smith's death mask (which was in the possession of the church) to accurately model his facial features.
Construction of LDS Hospital began in 1903, funded by donations from the LDS Church and from W. H. Groves, a Salt Lake City dentist after whom the hospital was named. [5] [6]: 1 Groves saw the community need for a hospital with up-to-date services, so he donated all of his property to the construction and use of the building when he died.