Thursday-06/21/18 - Salt Lake City, Here We Come

The drive up to Salt Lake City was pretty routine.  The country was pretty flat shortly after we left Torrey, UT, once we got into the valley below SLC.  At SLC, the RV park we stayed at was on the UTA (light rail) line which we used to go to Temple Square.  All the buildings at Temple Square are open to the public, except the Temple.  Only Mormons can go in it.

The following are pictures taken at Temple Square.

This is The Salt Lake Temple.  Construction was started in 1853.  It was finished in 1893.

This is the Mormon Angel Moroni.  A copy of this statute is atop every Mormon temple.

This is the outside of the Mormon Tabernacle, the home of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.  Construction was between 1864 and 1867.  It seems, from the outside to be a much more modern building.

The pipe organ is the fourth largest in the world.  It has 11,623 pipes, the smallest being the size if a #2 pencil.

The Tabernacle was built well before electronics and amplifiers.  A special effort needed to be made to allow the voices on stage to be heard every in the building.  They succeeded to such a degree, that a balcony needed to be added in order to deaden the sound some.  The roof structure was designed and built by a bridge builder.

The Assembly Hall (church) is where the members meet for regular religious services.  The Temple is not used for "church" services.

Interior of the Assembly Hall.  The columns are wood and painted to look like stone.

Ceiling of the Assembly Hall.

The organ in the Assembly Hall.

Yours' truly in front of the Assembly Hall and a monument with gulls on top.

The gulls are honored because of a "miracle"  delivered by the gulls.  The survival the first year of the Mormon pioneers was threatened by a horde of grasshoppers.  It was said that a person couldn't take one step without stepping on ten's or more of grasshoppers.  Their first crop was about to be annihilated.  But they were delivered when a huge flock of gulls arrived ans destroyed the grass hopper invasion. 

This covers our visit to Temple Square.

I will note how light it is late in the day.  I'll post one last picture I took at 9 pm this night. 

Tomorrow we're off to the Utah state house and Antelope Island State Park.

Later.