Brigham City Tabernacle, Brigham City, Utah. One of the finest examples of 19th century Mormon architecture . The city of Brigham Young was founded at the 1853 Mormon general conference when church president Brigham Young directed an apostle in the church to take 50 families to the area and develop a cooperative system in which the community would become self-sufficient. Most early settlers were Mormon converts from Denmark. In 1865, Brigham Young directed community leaders to build a tabernacle. The cornerstones were laid in 1865. The first meeting in the partially completed building took place in 1879. The tabernacle wasn't finished until 1890, a full 25 years after it was begun. In 1971, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The tabernacle is an impressive artifact of the Mormon cultural region. Picture by Michael P. Peterson.
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