Salt Lake Temple
The temple is used by Church members
for marriages and other sacred ordinances
designed to strengthen families, both
now and for eternity. Begun in 1853, it
was completed forty years later. Granite
rock used in its construction was hauled
twenty-three miles by ox-drawn wagons
from Little Cottonwood Canyon. They walls
are nine feet thick at the ground level and
narrow to six feet thick at the top. The east
center tower is 210 feet high and is topped
by the statue of an angel heralding the
restoration to the earth of the gospel of Jesus
Christ in the latter days.
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