In the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints , a tabernacle is a multipurpose religious building, used for church services and conferences, and as community centers. Tabernacles were typically built as endeavors of multiple congregations (termed wards or branches ), usually at the stake level. They differ from meetinghouses in scale and differ from temples in purpose.
3-732: The Old Salt Lake Tabernacle , was a tabernacle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints that was built in 1852 in Salt Lake City , Utah Territory. It stood on Temple Square where the Salt Lake Assembly Hall now stands. The building was 126 feet long and 64 feet wide and seated 2,500. It was constructed of adobe bricks. It was also called the Old Tabernacle and the Adobe Tabernacle. It
6-868: The Mormon Corridor near the Rocky Mountains in North America that had predominantly Latter-day Saint populations. The largest such tabernacle is in Salt Lake City on Temple Square . The last tabernacle commissioned by the church was the Ogden Stake Tabernacle, built in 1956. While some tabernacles are still used for a few ecclesiastical and community cultural activities, stake centers are now normally used in their place. Many tabernacles have been demolished, sold, or renovated, with two repurposed into temples ( Vernal Utah Temple , Provo City Center Temple ). Prior to 2000,
9-659: Was the original home of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir . Improvements were made in 1860s, but it was demolished in 1877 and replaced with the Assembly Hall, a larger structure. This article related to the Latter Day Saint movement is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Tabernacle (LDS Church) There were 79 total tabernacles built during the mid-to-late nineteenth and early twentieth century, usually within areas of
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