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The museum also contains the printing press that produced the first edition of the Book of Mormon in 1830 and a chair that carpenter Brigham Young built before joining the Church through baptism in 1832. [8] In 2020, the Church History Museum and many of the other buildings on Temple Square were closed in response to the coronavirus pandemic. [9]
The site was then a Temple Square parking lot, and was the same site as in the 1960 plan, northeast of the intersection of Main and North Temple. [1] The new facility houses the Church History Department (the modern name of the Church Historian's Office) and the church's historical archives. [2] The building was dedicated on June 20, 2009.
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 to Temple Square.
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).
In 2019, the Salt Lake Temple was closed for renovations. The new design was made to incorporate Temple Square and the Church Office Building plaza. [58] The area adjacent to the Church Office Building was designed to be a "contemplative garden space." [59] The interior of the St. George Utah Temple Visitors' Center
The Lion House is a large residence built in 1856 by Brigham Young, second president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), in Salt Lake City, Utah. [ 1 ] Used for a variety of purposes following the death of Young, the building was closed in 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic and has remained closed for renovation and ...
The sculpture commemorates the restoration of the Aaronic priesthood, an event in which, according to Latter-day Saint belief, the lesser order of the power and authority of God was given to male leaders of the church. Besides the sculpture at Temple Square, a plaster version is on display at the Fairview Museum of History and Art in Fairview ...
Using mostly discarded granite stone from the ongoing construction of the Salt Lake Temple, builder Henry Grow completed construction in 1882 at a total cost of $90,000. After the Tabernacle, the Assembly Hall was the second permanent structure completed on Temple Square. It has been modified several times since completion, however.