Visiting Salt Lake City: Part 3, the Temple Square
Time for the conclusion of the Salt Lake City series! If you haven't yet, check out parts one here, and two here. For the last part, I wanted to show off a quick set of photos taken while briefly touring the Temple Square. While I am not a religious person, I have always been fascinated by the architecture that comes out from it, especially churches, so I stopped by to check out the largest and most well known church of the Mormons: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Salt Lake Temple
The largest Mormon temple, the Salt Lake Temple, is actually quite impressive! Unfortunately, they don't let you inside the temple unless you are a member of the church, but they give a preview of the insides in one of the visitor centers so you can at least imagine what they did with all that space. And as a bonus, I came back at night to see it all lit up!
Assembly Hall
Because one church is never enough, what they call the Assembly Hall is really just.. a church. All we need now is a church within the church.
Visitors' Center
And last but not least, the main Visitors' Center. This place hosted museum-like displays full of artwork and information about the history of both Christianity and the Mormons, ranging from the art, to an interactive 3D map of Jerusalem, to statues -- including a big one of the big guy on the top floor.
Overall, visiting the Temple Square was pretty well worth it, in terms of visual beauty and interesting history, even if you're not religious like me. Just be prepared to awkwardly try and tell the guides that no, you do not want a bible, and no, you do not want to talk about Jesus.
That's all for today! For those of you interested: Camera is Sony NEX-7, with my usual Zeiss 16-70mm lens.
Click an image to enlarge! They are, of course, down-sampled from my original copies; we can chat if you're interested in any full quality versions. As always, these are my original photos, and I maintain the copyright.
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I live in Salt Lake City!! Hahah! It's weird to see someone non religious visiting the church.
If your not Mormon, You avoid those places like the plague, If you live here Hahaha!
I think I remember you telling me you lived there! :) And I can definitely see why people would avoid it, they can get pretty pushy trying to convince you of things and to take their pamphlets and whatnot. Worth visiting the place, not worth staying too long!
I've been to Salt Lake City several times! I always love going through Temple Square and hitting up the City Creek Mall. When I went a few weeks ago, there were cherry blossoms everywhere, and it was absolutely stunning! Here are a couple photos I took up on Capitol Hill:
Thanks for the great post! :)
These are lovely,
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Woah, nice pictures! :) Thanks for sharing!
i like colors on the 3rd pic (night temple)
Very awesome. I lived in Ogden for half a year and never made it down to Salt Lake City, sadly. I'm going to have to go down that way sometime!
I love the shot taken at night. Really beautiful!
Salt Lake City has my favorite ski resort.. Snowbird!! : )
I didn't spend anytime in the actual city, I might explore more the next time I go
Great pictures! Keep up the good work :)
Great shots. I'm liking the performance of that lens.
Beautiful pictures and post!
Awesome Pictures and Great Blog!