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  Salt Lake City Utah, A guide to the city of Salt Lake City. The Salt Lake Tourist & Visitors Center Website.
Salt Lake is a city of unexpected surprises and brims with history, art, culture, entertainment and recreation - all in a beautiful location at the foot of Utah's Wasatch Mountains.
Salt Lake City is the worldwide headquarters of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
Salt Lake is Utah's largest city in a large region of the interior West and serves as the industrial, financial, and commercial center of Utah.
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 Salt Lake Tabernacle
The Salt Lake Tabernacle, located on Temple Square, was built under the direction of President Brigham Young between the years 1863 and 1867, and has served as the home of the world-renowned Mormon Tabernacle Choir since its completion.
The tabernacle also served as the location for the semiannual General Conference sessions of the of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints between 1867 and 1999 after which time the conferences were moved to the the newly constructed Conference Center north of Temple Square.
The Salt Lake Tabernacle stands today as a testament to the determination and ingenuity of the early pioneers who settled the Salt Lake Valley.
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 Vacation In Salt Lake City - Book Hotels, Airfare and Rental Car
The airport is operated and managed by the Salt Lake City Department of Airports, a department of Salt Lake City corporation.
Once 900 South is abandoned, Salt Lake City will retain the signal equipment it purchased for the quiet zone for use elsewhere in the City.
Salt Lake City/Ogden is in first place in the category of top mountain cities, beating out Denver.
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  About Salt Lake City.
Salt Lake City is the international headquarters of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, commonly known as the Mormon Church.
Salt Lake City lies high above sea level in a mountain valley flanked by the Wasatch Range to the east and the Oquirrh Mountains to the southwest.
Salt Lake County is governed by a county mayor elected to a four-year term and a nine-member county council.
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  Salt Lake Tabernacle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Salt Lake Tabernacle, also known as the Mormon Tabernacle, is located in Temple Square in Salt Lake City, Utah along with the Salt Lake Assembly Hall and Salt Lake Temple.
The Tabernacle is the home of the world-renowned Mormon Tabernacle Choir, and was the previous home of the Utah Symphony Orchestra until the construction of Abravanel Hall.
The Tabernacle was built between 1864 and 1867 on the west center-line axis of the Salt Lake Temple.
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 Arts & Culture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Salt Lake City is home to the Intermountain West's largest collection of world art, which is found at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts on the University of Utah campus.
Salt Lake sites located close-by include historic Temple Square, the Utah State Capitol, the Great Salt Lake, Kennecott Bingham Copper Mine, Tracy Aviary, Hogle Zoo, Clark Planetarium, the Chase Home Museum of Utah Folk Arts, the Children's Museum of Utah, Lagoon Amusement Park, Red Butte Garden, Thanksgiving Point, and This is the Place Heritage Park.
For many years, Salt Lake and Utah have been called the "best of the west." This is a description that continues to ring true for the area's arts and culture community.
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 ASEE PRISM - Feb 2004 - Soaring in Salt Lake City
Mormon leader Brigham Young, who brought the pioneers into the Salt Lake Valley in 1847, used the honeybee as a symbol of the new state because early pioneers viewed the beehive as a symbol of industry and the virtues of thrift and perseverance.
It is salty sometimes because there is no outlet to the sea from the lake and the salts carried by its tributaries stay in the lake.
Floating in the Great Salt Lake with its feathery orange brine shrimp is one of those lifetime experiences that everyone should have.
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 Salt Lake City
Salt Lake City, Utah - Capital city of the state of Utah.
Salt Lake City, ranked as one of the best environments for business, has a robust central business district that includes the Salt Palace Convention Center, the Delta Center, Gallivan Plaza, Hansen Planetarium, and the Romanesque-styled Salt Lake City and County Building.
Antelope Island, the largest island in the lake, is accessible by traveling north of Salt Lake City on I-15 to Exit 335 and west on state Route 106/127 over the causeway to Antelope Island State Park.
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 Mormon Tabernacle Choir   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The origins of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir may be found in the desire and commitment of early converts to include appropriate music in both sacred and secular events (see Music).
With the appointment of George Careless as conductor in 1869, the Tabernacle Choir began to flourish.
The vision of a choral ensemble to match the size of the Tabernacle was thus born.
www.lightplanet.com /mormons/music/mormon_tabernacle_choir.html   (902 words)

  
 Mormon Tabernacle Choir - MormonWiki
The Mormon Tabernacle Choir of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is not only one of the oldest and largest choirs in the world, it is also one of the most famous, having performed in more than 28 different countries as well as across the United States.
Mormon Tabernacle Choir and the Orchestra at Temple Square.
The Mormon Tabernacle Choir practices and performs on a weekly basis, frequently accompanied by either the Tabernacle or Conference Center organ or the Orchestra at Temple Square (a 110-member volunteer orchestra organized primarily to assist the Choir in their performances and recordings).
www.mormonwiki.com /mormonism/Mormon_Tabernacle_Choir   (1273 words)

  
 LDS Temples - Mormon Temples - Salt Lake Temple
With its distinctive spires and statue of the angel Moroni, the Salt Lake Temple is an international symbol of the Church.
The walls of the Salt Lake Temple are nine feet thick at the base and six feet thick at the top.
The Salt Lake Temple is one of two temples that still employs live acting for presentation of the endowment.
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 Salt Lake City, a U.S., America, city, scenic, scenic city, vacation, travel, guide, travel guide, adventure, historic ...
Salt Lake City was originally founded by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) in 1847.
The 210 foot spires of the Mormon Tabernacle (built in 1893) is one of the oldest and most renowned buildings in Salt Lake City.
Salt Lake City is quickly becoming a mecca for skiers across the U.S. Its pristine forested slopes and 35 feet of dry snow each winter make it one of the country's top skiing destinations.
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 KSL.com News Story   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- A Salt Lake City construction company has disclosed it will be renovating the Salt Lake Tabernacle.
Construction began on the Tabernacle 17 years after Mormon settlers arrived in the Salt Lake Valley.
The church's twice-yearly conferences were held in the Tabernacle, which can seat 10,000, until 1999, when they were moved to the new 21,000-seat Conference Center.
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 History of Mormon Tabernacle Choir
The Salt Lake Mormon Tabernacle Choir, 320 voices strong, is the official choir of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and is named for its permanent home in the historic Mormon Tabernacle on Temple Square in Salt Lake City.
Singing was a part of the first general conference of the church in the Salt Lake Valley on 22 August 1847, less than one month after the arrival of the pioneer company.
During the long tenure of Welsh director Evan Stephens (1890-1916), the Mormon Tabernacle Choir achieved new levels of discipline and excellence; the present choir loft was built in the west end of the Tabernacle, choir membership swelled to 600, and the choir took the first of its many national and international tours.
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Salt Lake City is the state capital of and largest city in Utah, a state of the United States of America.
Salt Lake City is known for the mountain resorts in the nearby Wasatch Mountains.
Salt Lake City's downtown core houses an impressive collection of old and new structures with several twenty-plus story steel and glass towers adjacent to late nineteeth century brick and mortar.
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 deseretnews.com | Evangelical preaches at Salt Lake Tabernacle
With Evangelicals and Latter-day Saints sitting together in the Salt Lake Tabernacle for an "Evening of Friendship," internationally renowned Christian philosopher Ravi Zacharias told them Sunday night that Jesus Christ's unique claim upon humanity is that he embodied truth and sacrificed himself for a world that often does not recognize him.
Christian philosopher Ravi Zacharias speaks at the Salt Lake Tabernacle, in an event organized by Standing Together Ministries.
The Tabernacle was filled to capacity 10 minutes before the 6 p.m.
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 Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Downtown Salt Lake City is the oldest district in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Downtown Salt Lake City is usually defined as the area approximately between North Temple and 900 South Streets north to south and about 500 East and 600 West Streets east to west.
In 2000, the LDS Conference Center was completed and supplanted the still-existing Salt Lake Tabernacle for conferences of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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 Zermatt Resort - Salt Lake City Utah Information
Salt Lake City lies at the base of the Wasatch Mountain range.
The famed Salt Lake Temple, built between 1853 and 1893, and the Salt Lake Tabernacle accentuate the architectural feats of these 19th century man-made wonders.
Buoyancy in the Great Salt Lake is a natural phenomenon with saline rates much greater than that of the ocean.
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 The Cathedral of the Madeleine
The tabernacle tower, in which the Blessed Sacrament is reserved for the sick and for private veneration, stands in the middle of the Blessed Sacrament chapel behind the chancel screen, and is inspired by late medieval sacrament towers or sacrament houses.
The brass tabernacle proper is in the shape of a building and is inspired by the design of the north end of the cathedral exterior.
At the north end of the Blessed Sacrament chapel is the tomb of the Right Reverend Lawrence Scanlan, the fist bishop of Salt Lake, under whose leadership the Cathedral was built.
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 Utah History to Go
A re-enactment on Salt Lake City's Main Street of the dramatic 1896 telegraphic announcement that President Grover Cleveland at long last had signed the proclamation admitting Utah to the union.
Re-enactment of the inaugural ceremonies in the Salt Lake Tabernacle, with all the appropriate speeches.
The Salt Lake Tabernacle--the largest building in the valley in 1896--remained the center of celebration for the inaugural re-enactment, and as Centennial Commission Chairman Stephen M. Studdert had promised, it was a memorable event.
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 Utah History Encyclopedia
Its popularity can be attributed to its central geographic location in the capital city, to the national popularity of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, and to the general interest in the historic tabernacle and Salt Lake Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints--the Mormons.
The Salt Lake Mormon Tabernacle was built between 1864 and 1867 on the west center-line axis of the temple.
This is an indication of the traditional and symbolic importance of the Salt Lake Temple to the members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
www.media.utah.edu /UHE/t/TEMPLESQUARE.html   (1142 words)

  
 Tabernacle Organ
A widely recognized Mormon landmark, the Tabernacle Organ is one of the largest and finest in the world.
While not the world's largest, the organ in the Salt Lake tabernacle is one of the most famous musical instruments ever produced.
All divisions of the organ are located behind the massive casework on the west end of the Tabernacle except the antiphonal division, which is in the lower attic at the east end and speaks through openings behind the center balcony seats.
www.lightplanet.com /mormons/music/tabernacle_organ.html   (662 words)

  
 Salt Lake City Hotel - Local Events - Econo Lodge
The Salt Lake City Econo Lodge is only 7 blocks away, and our complimentary shuttle is available to take you to and from the Temple grounds.
Salt Lake City's only open-air contemporary destination that delivers the ultimate in shopping, dining and entertainment.
The historic Salt Lake Tabernacle on Temple Square--the building for which the Mormon Tabernacle Choir is named--is currently being renovated.
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 Utah History to Go
Leaders in the Salt Lake Valley settlement were rebuffed in their statehood efforts in 1849, 1856, 1862, 1872, 1882 and 1887.
His arguments prevailed and on Jan. 4, 1896, he was in Washington with a Utah delegation to receive the freshly signed proclamation from President Cleveland and to notify his waiting constituents in Salt Lake City that statehood was a fact.
In Utah, Gov.-elect Heber M. Wells prepared for the inauguration ceremonies in the Salt Lake Tabernacle that would begin a new era in the history of the state of Utah.
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 Salt Lake City | Hotels | Real Estate | Restaurants
Salt Lake City has developed a lively restaurant scene thanks to new talented chefs, a happening downtown, locally grown fresh produce and vegetables and savvy diners.
Despite Utah's liquor laws, Salt Lake city offers up a healthy local music scene and several "members only" (visitors always welcome) clubs and bars to see live music, grab a drink or dance the night away while making new friends.
Among Salt Lake City's draws are its quality of life, high salaries and technology sector, as well as its emergence as a logistics and distribution center for the western U.S. Our job listings are a good place to start and employment search in the Salt Lake City, Orem or Park City areas.
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 Salt Lake Tabernacle Rededication
It is a great honor and privilege to be part of the rededication service of this great edifice, the Salt Lake Tabernacle, which stands west of the Salt Lake Temple.
The finished Tabernacle on Temple Square in Salt Lake City has dimensions roughly similar to the canvas tabernacle contemplated for Nauvoo, and like the proposed Nauvoo tabernacle it also was situated just west of the temple.
When I was a boy, we listened to general conference on the radio; now with the use of satellites and modern electronic equipment, we broadcast from Salt Lake City to whole countries worldwide at one time—as we're doing now—using downlinks to buildings all over the world.
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