The Mormon Architecture Thread

[KillerDog]

ERCougar, where is that building located?

This is a pretty cool site: http://ldsarchitecture.wordpress.com/


A sampling from the website:

Highland Park Ward in SLC



Salt Lake 2nd Ward




Salt Lake 20th Ward



Univ. of Utah Ward

Good to see my building in that list of cool buildings. I'm a huge fan of the 20th Ward building and have now been a member of the 20th Ward 2 times. I can see the building from my house.

[Dwight Schr-ute]

ERCougar, where is that building located?

A sampling from the website:

Highland Park Ward in SLC

I grew up in this ward. I've been trying to figure out when this picture was taken. The building burnt down completely in the 50's, if I remember correctly. Unfortunately, about 10 years ago, the remodeled this building Vegas style (getting too dated?) and now the chapel looks like every other modern LDS chapel. I never appreciated the old one until I walked into the new one. Nice to see that there is a picture or two still floating around.

EDIT: Okay, I was obviously confused. This IS the Highland Park building which I have attended for a year or so in my life. It is very similar to the old Stratford Ward building two blocks away, so I was mixing the two up. Sorry for the confusion.

I used to live a few houses away from the Highland Park building. The interior is stunningly beautiful in person.

Who are you?! I would think that we would have to know each other. EDIT: Okay, so given the above edit, we weren't nearly as close as I thought, but we still likely know each other. Unless you lived there after high school, then there's probably little chance.

[UtahDan]

This sunstone from the first (destroyed) Nauvoo Temple used to be on display near the entrance of the American History Museum in DC but after massive renovations was in storage for a while. It has reappeared in a larger exhibit called "American Stories" or some such. There is also a china plate with an image of the Nauvoo Temple on it displayed with it. One of my friends says that the museum also has an 1830 BOM that it rarely, if ever, displays.

[myboynoah]

Kaysville Tabernacle celebrates 100 years

These stained glass windows are among my earliest church memories; sitting in Sacrament Meeting as the late afternoon sun illuminated the chapel through the windows. I spend a lot of time studying the design.


I remember asking my father why we had a Star of David on our church. I can't remember his answer (I was probably 8-9 years old at the time), but this picture brings back very special memories.


Occasionally an enterprising daredevil managed to climb atop one of the balls gracing the entrance.


That ledge coming down the stairs made a great slide after Sacrament Meeting as we waited for our parents to socialize. Slide down and then climb back up. I remember a kid falling and breaking his arm once.


I love the Tabernacle and always stop off in Kaysville to visit it when in Utah. It holds most of my earliest church memories: Jr. Sunday School in the basement, Primary after school, "Mutual" on cold Utah nights, the wonderful interior woodwork, the ward carnivals in the grass field across the street, the old Boy Scout cabin, the second-floor glassed-in double cry rooms and balcony across the back (where we hung out as teenagers), the double grooves in the pew handles that were great for rolling marbles, the high school football hero teaching our sunday school class, the old gym that was added sometime after initial construction (the gym was not regulation and the steps to the stage actually intruded into the court).