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The Salt Lake Temple is a temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Temple Square in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. At 253,015 square feet (23,505.9 m 2 ), it is the largest Latter-day Saint temple by floor area.
The Temple is currently home to the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of Utah; five Salt Lake City Masonic Lodges (Wasatch Lodge No. 1, Mt. Moriah Lodge No. 2, Argenta Lodge No. 3, Salt Lake Lodge No. 17, and Progress Lodge No. 22); The Orient of Utah of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry; the Grand York ...
The Holy of Holies or Holiest of Holies is a room in the Salt Lake Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), wherein the church's president—acting as the Presiding High Priest of the church—enters to act as High Priest of Israel in direct relationship with God, in accordance with the LDS interpretation of the ...
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 monument was later moved to a location just south of the Salt Lake Temple, near the eastern wall of Temple Square. [1] In 2006, it was placed next to Fairbanks' Restoration of the Melchizedek Priesthood sculpture in an area between the temple and South Visitors Center. It has since been moved as part of the 2020s redevelopment of Temple Square.
In January 1846, he began administering the second anointing in the nearly completed Nauvoo Temple. Young re-administered the ordinance to many of those who had received it under Smith, and he delegated his authority to others, who performed nearly 600 second anointings (some to polygamous unions) before the temple was closed on February 7, 1846.
The Salt Lake Temple, operated by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is the church's best-known temple. Located in Salt Lake City, Utah, it is the centerpiece of the 10-acre (40,000 m 2) Temple Square. In the Latter Day Saint movement, a temple is a building dedicated to being a house of God and is reserved for special forms of ...
The statues were designed for the niches beside the east doors of the Salt Lake Temple, and each life-sized figure has their head slightly turned so as to formerly have looked at any person standing directly in front of the temple doors. When the statues were removed from the niches and placed on high granite pedestals, it changed the viewing ...