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tistry of the model, 2}^ inches. Pisa, Italy. (Cat. No. 257751, 

 U.S.N.M.) Gift of Mrs. Charlotte Emerson Main. 



302. Model of a church in Borgund, Norway. — Made of wood. The 

 church is a wooden structure, with many pinnacles, giving it the 

 aspect of a Chinese pagoda and suggesting the "house of seven 

 gables." This style of church architecture was at one time very 

 common in Norway, but is fast disappearing. Height, 8 inches; 

 length, 7% inches; width, 5% inches. Norway. (Cat. No. 249675, 

 U.S.N.M.) Gift of Miss Eliza R. Scidmore. 



303. Model of the tabernacle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- 

 day Saints in Salt Lalce City, Utah. — Made of wood. The tabernacle, 

 built in 1864-1867, is in the shape of an oval or ellipse, 250 feet long, 

 150 feet wide, and 80 feet high. It is covered with a wooden roof 

 with iron shingles, resembling a turtle shell, which rests upon 44 

 buttresses of sandstone, but unsupported by pillars or beams, so that 

 the interior presents one of the largest unsupported arches in the 

 world. Between the buttresses are 20 large double doors opening 

 outward and affording speedy egress. Inside the building is sur- 

 rounded by a gallery, except at the west end, where there are a plat- 

 form for speakers, seats for the choir, and one of the largest organs, 

 comprising 500 pipes. The building, which is used for public reli- 

 gious services on Sunday afternoons, for lectures, sacred 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 distinctly at the other end, over 200 feet away. 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. 



304. Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 

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

 built mainly 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, of 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 

 inches; 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. 



