View of Conference Center spire taken from south of the Center on North Temple St., Salt Lake City

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The LDS Conference Center, located in Salt Lake City, Utah, is the premier meeting hall for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the LDS Church, popularly known as the "Mormons"). Completed in spring 2000 in time for the Church's twice-yearly General Conferences, the 21,000 seat Conference Center replaced the traditional use of the nearby Salt Lake Tabernacle, built in 1868, for LDS General Conferences and major church gatherings, devotionals, and other events. The LDS Church claims that the Conference Center is "the world's largest religious auditorium."^[1] View looking up at the LDS Conference Center from North Temple St. ... View looking up at the LDS Conference Center from North Temple St. ... A modern spire on the Lancaster University Chaplaincy Centre A spire is a tapering conical or pyramidal structure on the top of a building, particularly a church tower. ... Salt Lake City is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Utah. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1065x800, 99 KB) Summary Christus statue on Temple Square, Salt Lake City, Utah Taken by Ricardo630 in August 2005 Licensing I, the creator of this work, hereby grant the permission to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms... Salt Lake City is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Utah. ... Official language(s) English Capital Salt Lake City Largest city Salt Lake City Area  Ranked 13th  - Total 84,876 sq mi (219,887 km²)  - Width 270 miles (435 km)  - Length 350 miles (565 km)  - % water 3. ... The Salt Lake Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the largest attraction in the citys Temple Square. ... The Salt Lake Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the most-recognized architectural symbol of Mormonism For other uses, see Mormon (disambiguation). ... 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... In Mormonism, General Conferences are church-wide meetings of individual Latter Day Saint denominations. ... The Salt Lake Tabernacle, known worldwide 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. ... 1868 (MDCCCLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a leap year starting on Friday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar. ...

The most notable function of the Conference Center is hosting the semi-annual General Conference, from which the center gets its name. In Mormonism, a general conference is a meeting open to all members of a particular Latter Day Saint denomination. ...

Features

High-resolution panoramic view of the Conference Center interior looking towards the rostrum and organ

The 1.4 million square foot (130,000 m²) Conference Center seats 21,200 people in its main auditorium. This includes the rostrum behind the pulpit facing the audience, which provides seating for 158 General Authorities and the 360-voice Mormon Tabernacle Choir during General Conference. The auditorium is large enough to hold a Boeing 747 inside. All seats in the audience have an unobstructed view of the pulpit because the balcony is held up by radial trusses. This construction method allows the balcony to sink a full 6 inches under full capacity. Behind the podium is a 7,667 pipe and 130 rank pipe organ. Attached to the main building on the northwest corner is the Conference Center Theater that seats 905 people that can be used as a dedicated theater or as an overflow room during conferences. Underground is a parking garage that can hold 1,400 cars. A Modernist, three-story chandelier hangs in a skylight in the interior of the building. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (6274x1851, 3234 KB) Summary The Conference Center of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon) in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States by user Ricardo630 Ricardo630 06:22, 27 April 2006 (UTC) The stitching isnt perfect in... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (6274x1851, 3234 KB) Summary The Conference Center of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon) in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States by user Ricardo630 Ricardo630 06:22, 27 April 2006 (UTC) The stitching isnt perfect in... A square metre (US spelling: square meter) is by definition the area enclosed by a square with sides each 1 metre long. ... An auditorium is the area within a theatre, concert hall or other performance space where the audience is located in order to hear and watch the performance. ... Rostrum can mean one of several different things: A rostrum (Latin beak) is an anatomical structure resembling a birds beak, such as the snout of crocodiles or dolphins or the part of the carapace of a crustacean. ... For other uses of Ambo, see Ambo, Ethiopia, Kom Ombo, ambulance Ambo (band). ... In The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a general authority is a member of a select body of approximately 100 men with administrative and ecclesiastical authority in the church. ... The Mormon Tabernacle Choir is a large choir of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormons). ... A balcony comprising a balustrade supported at either end by plinths. ... In architecture and structural engineering, a truss is a static structure consisting of straight slender members inter-connected at joints into triangular units. ... Organ in Katharinenkirche, Frankfurt am Main, Germany // The pipe organ (Greek ὄργανον, órganon) is a musical instrument that produces sound by admitting pressurized air through a series of pipes. ... View of Conference Center spire taken from south of the Center on North Temple St. ...

External walls of the Conference Center are clad in precisely-cut granite. A 92 foot (28 m) glass-centered spire denotes the religious purpose of the building. No spire existed in the original plans, but it was added at the insistence of the church's First Presidency. A 67-foot stepped waterfall descends from the spire. The waterfall utilizes water from a natural spring found underneath the building during construction. City Creek flows in a rough-hewn riverbed, complementing the Conference Center. Quarrying granite for the Mormon Temple, Utah Territory. ... A foot (plural: feet or foot;[1] symbol or abbreviation: ft or, sometimes, ′ – a prime) is a unit of length, in a number of different systems, including English units, Imperial units, and United States customary units. ... The metre, or meter (U.S.), is a measure of length. ... Glass can be made transparent and flat, or into other shapes and colors as shown in this sphere from the Verrerie of Brehat in Brittany. ... A modern spire on the Lancaster University Chaplaincy Centre A spire is a tapering conical or pyramidal structure on the top of a building, particularly a church tower. ... In Mormonism, the First Presidency (or the Quorum of the Presidency of the Church) is one of the governing bodies in the church hierarchy of several Latter Day Saint denominations. ... City Creek is a small but historically important mountain steam that flows from City Creek Canyon and across part of Salt Lake City, Utah, and into the Jordan River which empties into the Great Salt Lake. ...

Because the building sits near the base of Salt Lake City's Capitol Hill, the roof is landscaped for attractiveness. About 3 acres (12,000 m²) of grass and hundreds of trees dot the roof. 21 native grasses were employed to conserve water and showcase local foliage. The landscaping is meant to echo the mountains and meadows of Utah. View of the Utah State Capitol building looking south down State Street. ... An acre is the name of a unit of area in a number of different systems, including Imperial units and United States customary units. ... Natural vegetaton dominated by grasses Grass is a common word that generally describes a monocotyledonous green plant in the family Poaceae. ... For other uses, see Tree (disambiguation). ...

While essentially Modernist in architecture, the Conference Center has a distinctly Pre-Columbian appearance. This reflects both the church's increasingly Latin American composition--from the mid-1990s onward, the majority of the church's membership has been from countries outside the United States, dominated by Mexico, Central America, and South America--and the now-prevalent belief that the events of the Book of Mormon took place in Central America. Modern architecture is a broad term given to a number of building styles with similar characteristics, primarily the simplification of form and the elimination of ornament, that first arose around 1900. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Latin America consists of the countries of South America and some of North America (including Central America and some the islands of the Caribbean) whose inhabitants mostly speak Romance languages, although Native American languages are also spoken. ... Map of Central America Central America is the central geographic region of the Americas. ... South America South America is a continent crossed by the equator, with most of its area in the Southern Hemisphere. ... The Book of Mormon[1] is one of the sacred texts of the Latter Day Saint movement, named after the prophet/historian Mormon who, according to the text, compiled most of the book. ...

Conference Center Theater

The Conference Center Theater

The Conference Center Theater is an 850-seat Broadway-style theater located on Temple Square in Salt Lake City, Utah operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.^[2] It is attached to the northwest corner of the LDS Conference Center. Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 599 pixels Full resolution (3068 × 2296 pixel, file size: 1. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 599 pixels Full resolution (3068 × 2296 pixel, file size: 1. ... This photo of Temple Square, circa 1897, shows that the plot housed the tallest buildings in Salt Lake City at the time, namely the Salt Lake Temple, Tabernacle and Assembly Hall. ... Salt Lake City is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Utah. ... The Salt Lake Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the largest attraction in the citys Temple Square. ...

Planning and construction

Designs for the Conference Center were solicited from LDS Church architect Leland Gray in the early 1990s, apparently at Gordon B. Hinckley's request. Hinckley was then a counselor in the First Presidency, but has been president of the LDS Church since 1995. The LDS Church originally sought a 26,000-seat building no more than 75 feet (23 m) high in accord with zoning regulations for the LDS Church-owned 10 acre (40,000 m²) block immediately north of Temple Square. Hinckley publicly announced the project in the April 1996 LDS General Conference. The final plans, completed in late 1996, featured 21,200 seats in the main hall with 905 in a side theater. For the band, see 1990s (band). ... Gordon Bitner Hinckley (born June 23, 1910) has been the 15th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints since March 12, 1995. ... In Mormonism, the First Presidency (or the Quorum of the Presidency of the Church) is one of the governing bodies in the church hierarchy of several Latter Day Saint denominations. ... The Salt Lake Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the largest attraction in the citys Temple Square. ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A typical zoning map; this one identifies the zones, or development districts, in the city of Ontario, California Zoning is a North American term for a system of land-use regulation. ... This photo of Temple Square, circa 1897, shows that the plot housed the tallest buildings in Salt Lake City at the time, namely the Salt Lake Temple, Tabernacle and Assembly Hall. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... In Mormonism, General Conferences are church-wide meetings of individual Latter Day Saint denominations. ...

Contracting for the building was done by three Salt Lake City firms: Jacobsen, Layton, and Okland construction companies which submitted a joint bid in order to compete with national firms. The companies jointly operated under the name "Legacy Constructors" after winning the contract in late 1996.

Demolition of existing LDS Church properties on the site began May 1997. Deseret Gym—a YMCA-like LDS gymnasium—and a Mormon Handicraft store had to be razed for the project. 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... It has been suggested that Nation of Deseret be merged into this article or section. ... This article is about the association. ... Modern indoor gymnasium with pull-down basketball hoops. ...

Ground was broken July 24, 1997. This date coincided with the 150th anniversary of Mormon Pioneers entering the Salt Lake Valley, an event celebrated in Utah as Pioneer Day. July 24 is the 205th day (206th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 160 days remaining. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A statue commemorating the Mormon pioneers The Mormon Pioneers were members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, who migrated across the United States from the midwest to the Salt Lake Valley in what is today the State of Utah. ... Pioneer Day is a holiday celebrated on July 24 in the U.S. state of Utah. ...

Little Cottonwood Canyon controversy

High-resolution panoramic view of the Conference Center from its southwest corner

Although the conference center is a modern steel truss and rebar-based design without need for masonry support, the LDS Church sought slabs of granite to clad all exterior walls. Specifically, the Church wanted granite to match rock quarried one hundred years earlier to build the adjacent Salt Lake Temple. Therefore, the LDS Church requested a permit to quarry granite from Little Cottonwood Canyon southeast of Salt Lake City. The Salt Lake County Commission granted a two-year permit on condition that extraction not interfere with ski season. Critics of the extraction argued that the quarry harmed the environment and burdened residents while endangering drivers through Little Cottonwood Canyon below. Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 290 pixels Full resolution (3064 × 1112 pixel, file size: 1. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 290 pixels Full resolution (3064 × 1112 pixel, file size: 1. ... The steel cable of a colliery winding tower. ... In architecture and structural engineering, a truss is a static structure consisting of straight slender members inter-connected at joints into triangular units. ... Rebar is common steel reinforcing bar, an important component of reinforced concrete and reinforced masonry structures. ... Masonry in action; a Mason at work. ... Salt Lake Temple is the centerpiece of the 10 acre (40,000 m²) Temple Square in Salt Lake City, Utah. ... The quality of this article or section may be compromised by peacock terms. You can help Wikipedia by removing peacock terms. ... Salt Lake County is a county located in the state of Utah. ... Alpine skier carving a turn on piste Members of the U.S. Air Force skiing (and snowboarding) at Keystone Resorts 14th Annual SnoFest Downhill Ski Racing This article is about snow skiing. ...

Quarrying began May 28, 1998. Although court filings challenged the legality of extracting the granite (specifically attacking Salt Lake County's authority to issue permit), the project was interrupted only by winter. The LDS Church finished quarrying by November 1999. Over 300,000 square feet (28,000 m²) of granite was extracted, mostly in 1.5 inch (38 mm) panels. May 28 is the 148th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (149th in leap years). ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean [1]. // Coated in ice, power and telephone lines sag and often break, resulting in power outages. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... A square foot is by definition the area enclosed by a square with sides each 1 foot long. ... An inch (plural: inches; symbol or abbreviation: in or, sometimes, ″ - a double prime) is the name of a unit of length in a number of different systems, including English units, Imperial units, and United States customary units. ... A millimetre (American spelling: millimeter, symbol mm) is an SI unit of length that is equal to one thousandth of a metre. ...

Completion

The exceptionally unusual Salt Lake City Tornado hindered construction on August 11, 1999. Construction cranes toppled at the work site, and four injuries to crew were reported. Otherwise, construction proceeded smoothly and rapidly. Avenues neighborhood damage The Salt Lake City Tornado was a very rare tornado that occurred in Salt Lake City, Utah on August 11, 1999, during an unusually strong summer monsoon season. ... August 11 is the 223rd day of the year (224th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ...

The Conference Center lobby

Construction work finished in time for the 170th Annual LDS General Conference on April 1st and 2nd. The pipe organ was not operational, so the Mormon Tabernacle Choir was accompanied by a synthesized organ amplified through the Center's speaker system. Hinckley remarked in his opening address that over 370,000 people had inquired about tickets for the inaugural General Conference. Hinckley also related that a Black Walnut tree that he had planted decades earlier in his backyard provided wood for the pulpit of the new center. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... In Mormonism, General Conferences are church-wide meetings of individual Latter Day Saint denominations. ... It has been suggested that April Fools Day be merged into this article or section. ... April 2 is the 92nd day of the year (93rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 273 days remaining. ... Organ in Katharinenkirche, Frankfurt am Main, Germany // The pipe organ (Greek ὄργανον, órganon) is a musical instrument that produces sound by admitting pressurized air through a series of pipes. ... Organ in Katharinenkirche, Frankfurt am Main, Germany The organ is a keyboard instrument played using one or more manuals and a pedalboard. ... The Mormon Tabernacle Choir is a large choir of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormons). ... A synthesizer (or synthesiser) is an electronic musical instrument designed to produce electronically generated sound, using techniques such as additive, subtractive, FM, physical modelling synthesis, phase distortion, or Scanned synthesis. ... Binomial name Juglans nigra L. The Black Walnut or American Walnut (Juglans nigra L.) is a native of eastern North America, where it grows, mostly alongside rivers, from southern Ontario, Canada west to southeast South Dakota, south to Georgia and southwest to central Texas. ...

The Conference Center was dedicated six months later on October 8 during the 170th Semiannual General Conference. Dedication was followed by a "Hosanna Shout"—a show of gratitude that dates to the early days of the Latter-day Saint movement. The Shout involves participants waving a white handkerchief while repeating "Hosanna, hosanna, hosanna, to God and the Lamb" three times. Before public broadcast of the Hosanna Shout, some assumed it was specifically related to LDS temple ordinances, which are inaccessible to outsiders. Until that time, LDS temple dedications employed the Hosanna Shout almost exclusively. The Conference Center dedication demonstrated that Hosanna Shouts are not considered secret nor necessarily temple-related to LDS leadership. October 8 is the 281st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (282nd in leap years). ... In Mormonism, a hosanna shout is an organized ritual by a congregation of shouting hosanna. ... The Latter Day Saint movement (also called the Mormonism movement or the Mormon movement) is a religious movement beginning in the early 19th century that led to the set of doctrines, practices, and cultures called Mormonism and to the existence of numerous churches whose members call themselves Latter Day Saints. ... Raymond W. Kelly is seen here wearing a handkerchief in his left-breast pocket. ... The Salt Lake Temple is the most well-known Mormon Temple. ...

Total cost of the building, although not publicly released, has been reported between $160 and $240 million dollars. ISO 4217 Code USD User(s) the United States, the British Indian Ocean Territory,[1] the British Virgin Islands, Cambodia, East Timor, Ecuador, El Salvador, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Palau, Panama, Turks and Caicos Islands, and the insular areas of the United States Inflation 2. ...

Reference

1. ^ LDS Church: The Tabernacle and Conference Center Compared
2. ^ [1]

• Halverson, W. Dee (2000). The LDS Conference Center. Salt Lake City: DMT Publishing. ISBN 0-9705023-0-3.

External links

• LDS Church: Conference Center Dedication and Hosanna Shout
• Architecture Week: LDS Conference Center Welcomes the Faithful
• Official Utah Tourism site: The LDS Conference Center
• Deseret News LDS Church News feature: Tour of the Conference Center
• An online tour of Temple Square

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