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ous services on Sunday afternoons, for lectures, sacied concerts, and 

 other meetings, has a seating capacity for 8,000 people, but can 

 accommodate about 10,000, and is well adapted for speaking and 

 hearing. It is said that a pin dropped at one end of the hall may be 

 heard disthictly at the other end, over 200 feet awa5^ The model 

 shows the arrangement of the interior in detail and also the organ. 

 Height, 31 inches; length, 7 feet; width, 4 feet 2 inches. — Salt Lake 

 City, Utah. (Cat. No. 258396, U.S.N.M.) Gift of the committee 

 of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. 



263. Temple of tlie Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in 

 Salt Lalce City, Utah. — Made of plaster of Paris. The temple is 

 built mamly of gray granite, quarried from the Wasatch Mountains, 

 and it required 40 years (1853-1893) for its construction. It is 186 

 feet long from east to west and 99 feet wide. The walls are 6 feet 

 thick. At each corner are three pointed towers, the loftiest of which, 

 in the center of the eastern or principal facade, is 210 feet high, and 

 is surmounted by a gilded copper statue, 12 feet 6 inches high, oi the 

 angel Moroni. The temple is used for the administration of ordi- 

 nances, as baptism, marriage, ordination, also for theological lectures, 

 preaching, prayer, etc. Height, 5 feet 4 inches; length, 5 feet 3 in- 

 ches; width, 3 feet 4 inches. — Salt Lake City, Utah. (Cat. No. 

 258397, U.S.N.M.) Gift of the committee of the Church of Jesus 

 Christ of Latter Day Saints. 



