Tabernacle (LDS Church)

For other meanings of the word "tabernacle," see Tabernacle (disambiguation).

In the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), a tabernacle is a multipurpose religious building, used for church services and conferences, and as community centers. They differ from meetinghouses and temples in design, scale, and purpose.[1] There were 79 total tabernacles built during the mid-to-late nineteenth and early twentieth century, usually within areas of the Mormon Corridor that had predominantly Latter-day Saint populations.[2] The largest such tabernacle is in Salt Lake City on Temple Square. While some tabernacles are still used for a few ecclesiastical and community cultural activities, stake centers are now normally used in their place. Some tabernacles have also been repurposed, such as the one in Vernal, Utah, which was extensively remodeled to become the Vernal Utah Temple.

References

  1. ^ http://beta-newsroom.lds.org/article/fire-damages-historic-provo-tabernacle
  2. ^ McArthur, A. J., & Wrobel, D. (2005). The buildings at the center: Latter-Day Saint tabernacles in the Mormon culture region. Thesis (M.A.)—University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 2005. [1] [2] [3]

External links

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Latter-day Saint Tabernacles
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