Salt Lake Temple
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The Salt Lake Temple is the largest and best-known of more than 130 temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It is the sixth temple built by the church, and the fourth
operating temple built since the Mormon exodus from Nauvoo, Illinois.[1]
The Salt Lake Temple is the centerpiece of the 10-acre (4.0 ha) Temple Square in
Salt Lake City, Utah. It is considered sacred by the
church and its members and a temple recommend is required to
enter, so there are no public tours inside the temple. The temple grounds are open to the public and are a popular tourist attraction.[2] Due to its location at LDS Church
headquarters and its historical significance, it is patronized much by Latter-day Saints from many parts of the world.
The Salt Lake Temple is also the location of the weekly meetings of the First
Presidency and the Quorum of the
Twelve Apostles.[3] As such, there are special meeting rooms in the Salt Lake Temple
for these purposes, including the Holy of Holies, which are
not present in other temples.
The official name of the Salt Lake Temple is also unique. In the early 2000s, as the building of LDS temples accelerated dramatically, the Church announced a formal
naming convention for all existing and future temples. For temples located in the United
States and Canada, the name of the temple is generally the city or town in which the temple is
located, followed by the name of the applicable state or province (with no comma). For temples outside of the U.S. and Canada, the name of the temple is generally the
city name (as above) followed by the name of the country. However, for reasons on which the Church did not elaborate (possibly due to the historical significance and
worldwide prominence of the temple), the Salt Lake Temple was granted an exception to the new rule and thus avoided being renamed the Salt Lake City Utah Temple.
Some think the Temple is intended to evoke the Temple of
Solomon at Jerusalem. It is oriented towards Jerusalem and the large basin used as a baptismal
font is mounted on the backs of twelve oxen as was the brazen sea in Solomon's Temple.[4] However this is only
conjecture.[4] At east end of the
building, the height of the center pinnacle is 210 feet,[5] or 120 cubits,[6] making this Temple 20 cubits taller than the Temple of
Solomon.[7]
The location of the Temple is literally in "The Tops of the Mountains",[8][9] with several mountain peaks closeby, in almost every direction,
except to the northwest, where lies the Great Salt Lake.[10] Very nearby, a shallow stream, City Creek, splits and flows both to the west and to the south, flowing into the deeper
Jordan River, which flows northward into the large Great Salt Lake.[10] There is a wall around the 10 acre Temple
site. The surrounding wall became the first permanent structure on what has become known as Temple Square. The wall is a uniform fifteen feet high but varies in appearance because of the southwest slope of the site
