BGuthrie Photos: UT -- Salt Lake City -- Temple Square -- Miscellaneous Sites

UT -- Salt Lake City -- Temple Square -- Miscellaneous Sites:

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[1] TEMPSQ_030518_02.JPG	[2] TEMPSQ_030518_05.JPG	[3] TEMPSQ_030518_11.JPG	[4] TEMPSQ_030518_13.JPG	[5] TEMPSQ_030518_23.JPG	[6] TEMPSQ_030518_24.JPG	[7] TEMPSQ_030518_28.JPG	[8] TEMPSQ_030521_02.JPG	[9] TEMPSQ_030521_05.JPG	[10] TEMPSQ_030521_06.JPG

Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. TEMPSQ_030518_02.JPG: Hardcart Pioneer Memorial. This memorial celebrates the 3500 pioneers who, during the 1850's, trekked from Iowa City, Iowa to Salt Lake City. Too poor for wagons, they used handcarts to carry all of their belongings. 500 died on the way.
2. TEMPSQ_030518_05.JPG: The Seagull Memorial. The first season that the Mormons set up shop in Salt Lake City, they tried to grow crops. Just as things were working out, a horde of grasshoppers descended on the city. Seagulls "magically" appeared and ended that threat and the colony survived.
3. TEMPSQ_030518_28.JPG: The placement of the state capital behind the Mormon founder pretty well gives you an idea of how important the state is relative to the Mormon church.
4. TEMPSQ_030521_02.JPG: That's the Mormon Church Office Building. The 26th floor has a viewing platform where you can take nice pictures of the city.
5. TEMPSQ_030521_06.JPG: The Eagle Arch tells you you're passing into the area where Brigham Young had his farm.
AAA "Gem": AAA considers this location to be a "must see" point of interest. To see pictures of other areas that AAA considers to be Gems, click here.
Wikipedia Description: Temple Square
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Temple Square is a ten acre (40,000 m²) complex located in Salt Lake City, Utah, owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormon or LDS Church). Contained within Temple Square are the Salt Lake Temple, Salt Lake Tabernacle, Salt Lake Assembly Hall, the Seagull Monument and two visitors' centers.

History:

Main article: History of Utah

In 1847, when Mormon pioneers arrived in the Salt Lake Valley, Church president Brigham Young selected a plot of the desert ground and proclaimed, "Here we will build a temple to our God." When the city was surveyed, the block enclosing that location was designated for the temple, and became known as Temple Square. Temple Square is surrounded by a high, granite wall that was built shortly after the block was designated for the building of the temple.

The square also became the headquarters of the LDS Church. Other buildings were built on the plot, including a tabernacle (prior to the one occupying Temple Square today) and Endowment House, both of which were later torn down. The Salt Lake Tabernacle, home of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, was built in 1867 to accommodate the General Conferences of the Church, with a seating capacity of 6,000. Another church building called the Assembly Hall was later built with a seating capacity of 2,000.

As the Church has grown, its headquarters has expanded into the surrounding area. In 1917, an administration building was built on the block east of the temple, to be followed in 1972 by the twenty-eight story LDS Church Office Building, which was, for many years, the tallest building in the state of Utah. The Hotel Utah, another building on this block, was remodeled in 1995 as additional office space and a large film theater and renamed the Joseph Smith Memorial Building. In 2000, the Church purchased the block of Main Street between this block and Temple Square and connected the two blocks with a plaza called the West Church Plaza. In 2000, the Church completed a new, 21,000 seat Conference Center on the block north of Temple Square.

The Family History Library and the Museum of Church History and Art are located on the block west of Temple Square.

Modern usage:

Tourism:

Attracting 3 million to 5 million visitors a year, Temple Square is the most popular tourist attraction in Utah. By comparison, Utah's five National Parks —Zion, Bryce Canyon, Capitol Reef, Canyonlands, and Arches— had a combined total of 5.3 million visitors in 2005.

Temple Square (and the surrounding blocks) has become a popular tourist destination, with five million visitors annually, more than the Grand Canyon or Yellowstone National Park. ...
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