Old Salt Lake Tabernacle
Old Salt Lake Tabernacle
The Old Salt Lake Tabernacle, was an LDS tabernacle built in 1852 in Salt Lake City, Utah.[1][2][3] It stood on Temple Square, where the Salt Lake Assembly Hall now stands. The building was 126 feet long and 64 feet wide and seated 2,500. It was constructed of adobe bricks. It was also called the Old Tabernacle and the Adobe Tabernacle.[4] It was the original home of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.[5] Improvements were made in 1860s,[6] but it was demolished in 1877[7][8] and replaced with the Assembly Hall, a larger structure.[9]
Notes
- ↑ Jenson 1941, p. 83
- ↑ Jackson 2003, p. 69
- ↑ Jenson 1992, p. 18
- ↑ Roberts 1975, p. 304
- ↑ Roberts 1975, p. 318
- ↑ Jackson 2003, p. 69
- ↑ Jackson 2003, p. 70
- ↑ Roberts 1975, p. 318
- ↑ Hamilton 1995, pp. 57–8
References
- Hamilton, C. Mark (1995), Nineteenth-Century Mormon Architecture & City Planning, New York: Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-507505-6.
- Jackson, Richard W. (2003), Places of Worship: 150 Years of Latter-day Saint Architecture, Occasional Papers, Provo, Utah: Religious Studies Center, ISBN 1591563909.
- Jenson, Andrew (1941), Encyclopedic History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret News Publishing Company.
- Jenson, Crystal Wride (August 1992), The Geographical Landscape of Tabernacles in The Mormon Culture Region, Master's thesis, Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University.
- Roberts, Allen D. (Summer 1975), "Religious Architecture of the LDS Church: Influences and Changes since 1847", Utah Historical Quarterly, 43 (3): 301–27.
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