10 Facts About Mormon Tabernacle

Salt Lake Tabernacle, known as the Mormon Tabernacle, is located on Temple Square in Salt Lake City, in the U S state of Utah.

The Mormon Tabernacle was built from 1863 to 1875 to house meetings for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and was the location of the church's semi-annual general conference until the meeting was moved to the new and larger LDS Conference Center in 2000.

Now a historic building on Temple Square, the Salt Lake Mormon Tabernacle is still used for overflow crowds during general conference.

Salt Lake Mormon Tabernacle was inspired by an attempt to build a Canvas Mormon Tabernacle in Nauvoo, Illinois, in the 1840s.

Mormon Tabernacle was built between 1864 and 1867 on the west center-line axis of the Salt Lake Temple.

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Brigham Young, church president at the time, wanted the Mormon Tabernacle roof constructed in an elongated dome shape with no interior pillars or posts to obstruct the view for the audience .

Salt Lake Mormon Tabernacle organ has its case positioned at the west end above the choir seats, and is the focal point of the Mormon Tabernacle's interior.

Mormon Tabernacle was the location of the church's semi-annual general conference for 132 years.

Mormon Tabernacle is the home of The Mormon Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square, and was the previous home of the Utah Symphony Orchestra until the construction of Abravanel Hall.

Mormon Tabernacle was closed from January 2005 to March 2007 for seismic retrofitting and extensive renovations.