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Truman Osborn Angell (/ ˈ eɪ n dʒ əl / "angel"; June 5, 1810 – October 16, 1887) was an American architect who served many years as the official architect of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).
They incorporate traditional architecture with hints of various other styles depending on location. Elsewhere in the world, the LDS Church has created standardized floorplans that better fit in with the culture and geography of individual countries and regions. In tropical locations, the roofs tend to be thicker and the meetinghouses smaller.
Nonetheless, he wrote, "the building is the most prominent structure in Vernal and considered the finest building in all of eastern Utah." The tabernacle was superseded by an adjacent, more modern LDS stake center in 1948. Only used irregularly thereafter, the LDS Church announced the tabernacle's closing in 1984 for public safety reasons.
In the LDS Church, a temple is a building dedicated to be a House of the Lord and considered by church members to be the most sacred structures on earth. Upon completion, temples are usually open to the public for a short period of time (an "open house"), and then each is dedicated as a "House of the Lord," after which only members with a ...
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church or, informally, the Mormon Church) is a Christian restorationist church that is considered by its followers to be the restoration of the original church founded by Jesus Christ.
Places of Worship: 150 Years of Latter-day Saint Architecture (PDF). Provo, Utah: Religious Education at Brigham Young University. ISBN 978-1591563907 – via Harold B. Lee Library. King, David (2000), Come to the House of the Lord, Cedar Fort, ISBN 0-88290-687-9; Packer, Boyd K., The Holy Temple, June 1980, ISBN 0-88494-411-5
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Bern Switzerland Temple statue of Angel Moroni. Symbolism in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) is the process whereby objects or actions have been invested with an inner meaning expressing church ideas. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its membership have adopted a number of symbols that differ from ...