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A Place of Gathering

04 Saturday Nov 2017

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Provo-Baptistry-ca.-1885

(Above:  The Meetinghouse and the Utah Stake Tabernacle as they appeared circa 1885.  The baptistry is located in front of the meetinghouse.)

Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have gathered on this block since the 1850s to worship and make sacred covenants.  The transformation of the Utah Stake Tabernacle into the Provo City Center Temple continues this sacred heritage.

After President Brigham Young selected the site, construction began on a meetinghouse in 1856.  It was designed by Church architect Truman O. Angell, and Church members worshiped in this building until it was razed in 1919.  Members of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers and the Sons of Utah Pioneers preserved the lintel stone (adjacent to this marker from the original meetinghouse.

In the late 1870s, a baptistry was built to the west of the meetinghouse.  Uncovered during an archaeological dig in 2012, the font reveals this site as a place where Latter-day Saints historically made sacred covenants with the Lord.

As the community outgrew the capacity of the meetinghouse, Church leaders commissioned William H. Folsom to design a new, larger structure.  Initiated in 1883, construction of the Utah Stake Tabernacle ended in 1898.  For more than one-hundred years the tabernacle housed worship services, community gatherings, and cultural events.  Early in the morning of December 17, 2010, a fire consumed all but the outer shell of the building.  Ten months later, President Thomas S. Monson announced that the building would be restored and used as a temple.

Today Church members continue to gather to this historic place.  They, like their predecessors, make sacred covenants with God through the ordinances offered in the House of the Lord.

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Choosing the Site of Provo’s First Tabernacle Caused Some Controversy

09 Monday Oct 2017

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Choosing the Site of Provo’s First Tabernacle Caused Some Controversy.

Provo constructed its first tabernacle on the northeast quarter of the block fronting on Center Street and University Avenue. Selecting its site caused a fair amount of controversy.

When Brigham Young visited Utah Valley for the first time in September, 1849, the settlers lived in Fort Utah located where I-15 crosses the Provo River today. Young explored the vast area easy of the fort and selected a site for the central square and tabernacle.

After the settlers began to leave Fort Utah in 1850, they established Fort Provo, where North Park is located today. In spite of President Young’s wishes they located their townsite five blocks west of the site Young selected. In 1852, George A. Smith selected a site for the first tabernacle on the town square, today’s Pioneer Park. Church leaders dedicated the land and broke the ground for a building designed by LDS Church architect, Truman O. Angel, who had designed the Salt Lake Temple.

Men dig a large hole, hauled in some rock for the basement wall–and then the work ended. During a special conference held in Provo in July, 1855, Brigham Young relocated the site he had selected for the tabernacle in 1849, and Heber C. Kimball ordered the congregation to fill the first hole on the public square and go to work on the new site five blocks to the east. The tabernacle was finally dedicated on August 24, 1867. After a half century of use, it was demolished during the winter of 1918/1919.

Archaeologists excavated the site of the old tabernacle and located it’s rock foundation in 2012 during construction for the Provo City Center Temple.

This marker is located in Rock Canyon Park in Provo, for other markers in this series click here.

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Lehi Tabernacle Cornerstone

08 Saturday Oct 2016

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This stone donated by Lehi Sunday Schools. Laid Sept. 14, 1901.

(etched in stone, difficult to read) Lehi ……… of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints erected A.D. 1901

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To gain an appreciation of the Tabernacle cornerstone, one must learn of its creators. Englishman Arthur Bradder (born in 1855), at the age of thirteen began a two­year stone­cutting apprenticeship which he left because of an abusive master. He then traveled about England, Wales, and France plying the skills he had learned.

Working in Liverpool, England, during 1876 Bradder was able to save enough money to transport his family to America. In Salt Lake City in 1897 he formed a partnership with his son­in­law, Joseph J. Gill. After being told there would be no stonecutting competition in Lehi, the duo moved to town and established the Lehi Stone, Marble and Granite Works (later Arthur Bradder & Company) on the northeast corner of Fourth North and First East.

The first major contract Bradder and Gill obtained was for the decorative stone on the downtown People’s Co­op building (189 West Main). Presumably they also did the stone work on the New log Cabin Saloon (155 West Main), Merrihew Building (98 West Main), Ross Block (86 West Main), and the main building of the uptown People’s Co­op (151 East State)­­all built between 1902 and 1908.

Another example of the fine stone­cutting abilities of Bradder and Gill is the Lehi Pioneer Monument, on the Memorial building grounds

Bountiful Tabernacle

20 Tuesday May 2014

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One of the oldest L.D.S. Chapels. Finest at time of erection. Augustus Farnham architect. Site dedicated Feb. 11, 1857 by Elder Lorenzo Snow. Grain was stored in stone foundation when Johnston’s Army advanced. The walls are of adobe, roof timbers fastened with wooden pegs, lumber from Meeting House Hollow, Holbrook Canyon. Tower had five spires, the center spire served as a sun dial. Dedicated March 14, 1863 by Elder Heber C. Kimball, President Brigham Young presiding. Cost $60,000, Bishop John Stoker. Councilors Wm. Atkinson and Wm. H. Lee.

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