THE MORMON TEMPLE.
Somebody who describes the Mormon temple at Salt Lake, now nearly complete, compares its appearance fa, that of an old-fashioned ship, without any keel, turned bottom up. The root is supported by forty-four piers of cut sandstone, each nine by three feet. The interior of the building is thus described:— "Tho stand for the speakers is at the we?t end of the building, and covers seventy-five hundred feet of surface. The front of the stand is a segment of a circle. Before it are a seat and desks for the bishops and others who administer the sacrament. The first si'at in the centro of the stand or platform is for the Presidency of the Stare, the next for the Quorum of the Twelve, the third for the First Presidency. Back of these are seats for a choir of one hundred and fifty singers, with the great organ, yet unfinished, behind them. On the right and left are B eat 3 for from ei^hfc hundred to one thousmd persons. The speaker's desk i 3 sixty feet in front of the western piers. In front of the stand, for seventy feet, the floor is horizontal, thence to the east end the floor rises with a grade of one foot in ten. The room will eeat between eight and nine thousand persons.
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Southland Times, Issue 891, 31 January 1868, Page 3
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222THE MORMON TEMPLE. Southland Times, Issue 891, 31 January 1868, Page 3
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