The Salt Lake Temple is a temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) located at Temple Square in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America. At 253,015 square feet (23,505.9m 2 ), it is the largest LDS temple based on the floor area. Dedicated in 1893, it was the sixth temple completed by the church, it took 40 years to complete it, and the fourth temple built since the Mormon exodus from Nauvoo, Illinois, in 1846.
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Detail
The Salt Lake Temple is the center of the 10-acre (4.0Ã, ha) Temple Square in Salt Lake City, Utah. Like other LDS temples, it is considered sacred by the church and its members and temple recommendation is required to enter, so there is no general tour inside the temple as it exists for other adjacent buildings in Temple Square. In 1912, the first public photos of the interior were published in The House of the Lord, by James E. Talmage. Since then, various photographs have been published, including by Life magazine in 1938. The temple courtyard is open to the public and is a popular tourist attraction. Due to its location at the headquarters of the LDS Church and its historical significance, the Temple is protected by Latter-day Saints from different parts of the world. The Salt Lake Temple is also the location of weekly meetings of the First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. Thus, there is a special meeting room in the building for this purpose, including the Most Holy Place, which is not in another temple.
The temple includes some alleged elements to raise the Temple of Solomon in Jerusalem. It is oriented toward Jerusalem and the great basin used as a baptismal font is mounted on the backs of twelve oxen, like the Molten Sea in the Temple of Solomon (see Chronicles 4: 2-4). (However, the literal interpretation of the Bible verses has been disputed.) At the eastern end of the building, the height of the central center to the base of the angel Moroni is 210 feet, or 120 cubits, making the Temple 20 cubits higher than the Temple of Solomon.
Name
The official name of the Salt Lake Temple is also unique. In 1999, when the buildings of LDS temples were accelerated, the church announced an official naming convention for all existing and future temples. For temples located in the United States and Canada, the name of the temple is generally the city or town where the temple is located, followed by the applicable state or province name (without a comma). For temples outside the US and Canada, the name of the shrine is generally a city name (as above) followed by a country name. However, for reasons where the church does not describe it, the Salt Lake Temple is excluded from the new guidelines and is not renamed "Salt Lake City Utah Temple". (The Provo Town Central Temple is the only other temple excluding states, provinces, or countries in the name of the temple.)
Location
The temple is located in downtown Salt Lake City, with several nearby mountain peaks. Nearby, the shallow river, City Creek, splits and flows west and south, flowing into the Jordan River. There is a wall around the temple site covering an area of ​​10 hectares (4.0 hectares). The surrounding walls became the first permanent structure in what is known as Temple Square. The walls are uniform as high as 15 feet but vary in appearance due to the slope of the southwest of the site.
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Usage
The temple is considered to be the house of God and is reserved for special ceremonies to practice Latter-day Saints. The main ordinance is used during endowment ceremonies; ie park, telestial, terrestrial, and space - in the order of use. Washing and anointing ceremonies were also performed, and until 1921, the rooms were also used for healing rituals of washing and anointing of sick or pregnant men and administered by women and men. The temple also serves as a venue for wedding ceremonies for the living and the dead. Additional uses include serving as a location for baptisms for the dead, baptisms for health (until terminated in 1921), and, briefly, for baptisms for renewal of the treaty. Other rituals performed in the temple include the second anointing procedure for the living and the dead, and the meeting rooms for church leaders.
Temple construction and dedication
The location for the temple was first marked by the prophet Mormon Brigham Young, the president of both churches, on July 28, 1847, just four days after arriving in the Salt Lake Valley. In 1901, the apostle Anthon H. Lund noted in his journal that "it is said" that Oliver Cowdery's forecast is used to find the location of the temple. The site of this temple was dedicated on February 14, 1853 by Heber C. Kimball. The groundbreaking ceremony was led by Young, who laid the foundation on April 6 of that year. The architect is Truman O. Angell, and this temple has elements of Gothic and Romanesque.
Sandstone was originally used for foundations. During the Utah War, foundations were buried and many were made to look like hijacked fields to prevent unwanted attention from the federal troops. After the tension subsided in 1858 and work in the temple resumed, it was discovered that many foundation stones had been cracked, making them unsuitable for use. Although not all sandstone is replaced, inadequate sandstones are replaced. The walls are quartz monzonite (which has a granite view) of Little Cottonwood Canyon, located twenty miles (32 km) southeast of the temple site. The ox carried the stone excavated initially, but when the Transcontinental Railway was almost completed in 1869 the remaining stones were carried by the train at a much faster pace.
The cornerstone - a granite ball holding a statue of the Angel of Moroni - was laid on April 6, 1892, using an electric motor and a switch operated by Wilford Woodruff, the fourth president of the church, thus completing the work outside the temple. The Angelic Statue of Moroni, 12.5 feet (3.8 m) tall, is placed on the tombstone later on. At the cornerstone ceremony it was proposed by Woodruff that the interior of the building would be completed within a year, allowing the temple to be dedicated for forty years until its day of commencement. John R. Winder was instrumental in overseeing the completion of the interior on schedule; he will serve as a member of the temple presidency until his death in 1910. Woodruff dedicated the temple on April 6, 1893, exactly forty years after the capstone was laid.
Symbolism
The Salt Lake Temple incorporates many symbolic ornaments including Masonic symbols. Symbolism is an important subject in the faith of LDS. These symbols include the following:
- The All-Seeing Eye - The center towers on each side are represented by God's All-Seeing Eyes representing how God sees all things.
- The Angel Statue - The Golden Angel of Moroni placed in the cornerstone of the temple symbolizes the angel mentioned in Revelation 14: 6 who will come to greet at the Second Coming of Christ. The initial architectural plan shows two angels flying horizontally and the earliest reference to the Angel of the Salt Lake Temple is always Gabriel. The original blueprint image meant angels to wear temple ceremonial clothes such as angels at Nauvoo temple, but W.H. The 12.5-foot statue of Mullin wore a crown instead of a temple hat originally made with bright light creating a halo effect at night.
- Beehive - The honeycomb symbol (which appears in the Utah state seal) appears at the external door and door handle and represents the economics, industry, persistence, and order of the Mormons.
- Big Dipper - On the west side of the temple, Big Dipper appears, illustrating how the priesthood can help people find their way to heaven when the constellations help travelers find the North Star. The top star in the constellation is parallel to the actual North Star.
- Compass and Square - The original plan drawing of the temple shows the Masonic compass and square arrangements placed around the second and fourth floor windows, but the plan changes during construction. These symbols appear on the Nauvoo Temple fire wheel.
- Hand Hands - Above every external door and door handle comes "hand clasps", which are representations of covenants made in the temple or brotherly love.
- Cloud - On the eastern side of the temple is "rain cloud down" representing God's way of continuing revelation and still speaking to man "as rain descends from Heaven" or as an alternative to the veil of ignorance or sin.
- Earth - The rocks on the lower supports have been interpreted as the Gospel of Christ that spreads throughout the Earth.
- Saturn - Angell's initial drawings and descriptions show Saturnstones along the upper levels of the temple, although the design was changed several years later.
- Towers - The six temple towers symbolize the power of the priesthood. The three towers on the east side are slightly higher than those in the west: they represent Melchizedek, or "high priesthood", and Aaron, or "priesthood preparation" respectively. The three towers on the east side symbolize the First Presidency of the church and the twelve smaller towers on the three men represent the Twelve Apostles.
- Sun, Moon, and Stars - Around the temple there are some carved stones depicting the sun, moon, and stars each corresponding to the heavenly, land, and telestial kingdom of glory in Hereafter. The stones of the sun have also been interpreted to represent God, moon stones in different phases as representing different life phases, and stellar stars representing Jesus Christ. These symbols are derived from three lower light symbols in Freemasons that are practiced by many of the early church leaders in Nauvoo. In addition, the five-pointed star traditionally represents the five wounds of Christ (hands, feet, and sides) and a five-pointed star with a downward ray found in several LDS temples has been interpreted to represent Christ who came to Earth. li>
temple bombing 1962
On November 14, 1962, at about 1:30 am, the southeast entrance of the Salt Lake Temple was bombed. The FBI agent stated that the explosives had been wrapped around a door handle at the southeast entrance of the temple. The large wooden entrance door was damaged by metal and glass fragments. Damage to the interior walls occurs 25 feet inside the temple, but damage to the interior is small. Eleven exterior windows were destroyed. Some members of the LDS Church believe that the incident was related to violence around the Civil Rights Movement, the racial strife of the nation, and the limitation of the church priesthood, on the basis of race, prevailing at the time.
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