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2023.055.3.0399Description
A black and white stereograph. Image is of a large castle-like buildingd and a large dome. Above the image "53" is printed, below the image "6044 - Temple and Tabernacle, Salt Lake City, Utah." is printed below the image, to the left of the image "Keystone View Company COPYRIGHTED Manufacturers MADE IN U.S.A. Publishers" is printed, to the right of the image "Meadville, Pa., New York, N. Y., Portland, Oregeon, London, Eng., Sydney, Aus." is printed. On the reverse the following is printed:
6044 - Mormon Temple and Tabernacle, Salt Lake City, Utah.
The cost of the Mormon Temple is said to be $4,000,000; others say $5,000,000. It was forty years in building, from 1853 to 1893. It is 186 feet long and 99 feet wide; it is often said, using round numbers, to be 200 by 100 feet. The material is granite, poetically "snow-white," but acutally gray. There are three pointed towers at each end; the highest is the central tower at the east end, 210 feet high and surmounted by a colossal statue of hammered copper, 12 1/2 feet high, of the Mormon angel Moroni. The interior is accessible, sinc the dedication, only to Mormons in good standing. The temple is used for baptisms, ordinations, marriages - including the Mormon marriges for eternity - prayer, preaching, teaching, and teological lectures.
The curious Tabernacle, with its turtle-backed roof, is oval in shape, 250 feet long, 150 feet wide, and 70 feet high. It has sets for 8,000 people, and will hold 12,000. Both the temple and the Tabernacle are in Temple Blcok, a square of ten acres in the heart of alt Lake City.
By the Edmunds bill of 1882 polygamists were disfranchised in the Territories. In 1890. the Mormon President, Wilfor Woodruff, in a manifesto advised the Mormons to refrain from illegal marriages. Upon Utah's prohibiting polygamy it was admitted to Statehood. Roberts, Congressman-elect from Utah, a polygamist, was unseated in 1899.
On the southern border of Utah the Grand Canyon begins - into which the White Mountains might be thrown without filling the canyon.
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