Tabernacle In Salt Lake City
40 46 '13 "N 111 53' 35" W / 40.7704, -111.8930
The Tabernacle in Salt Lake City, also called the Mormon Tabernacle, is a building of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints , located on the Place of the Temple ( Temple Square ) to Salt Lake City , capital of Utah. Until the early twentieth century, the date of completion of the conference center that's had held the biannual General Conference of the Church. The Mormon Tabernacle Choir sings and performs there regularly. The room can accommodate about 5,000 people.
The construction of the Tabernacle was started in 1864 and was completed in 1867. It was designed so that a speaker could be heard by each participant at a time when amplifiers and speakers did not exist. With its 11,623 pipes the Mormon Tabernacle organ is among the 20 largest in the world.
Used for the first time in 1867, allows the sound from one end of the building can clearly hear a pin drop at the other end, a distance of 75 meters. It is also at the Tabernacle in Salt Lake City What rehearsals take place weekly Tabernacle Choir
The tabernacle is a registered National Historic Landmark and National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark.
From January 2005 to March 2007, it was renovated before a rededication March 31, 2007 by President Gordon B. Hinckley.
The Tabernacle, the dome plan
Tabernacle under construction
Structure of the Tabernacle
The Tabernacle in 1870
The Tabernacle and the Temple in Temple Square, 1890
Inside the Tabernacle in 1897
Outside the Tabernacle in 1937
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