The House of the Lord: A Study of Holy Sanctuaries Ancient and ModernTalmage, James E. (James Edward)
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The House of the Lord: A Study of Holy Sanctuaries Ancient and Modern
Talmage, James E. (James Edward)
Latter Day Saint temples; Temples
As to the interior it may be sufficient to say that all the ordinance
work connected with baptism, ordination, endowment, and sealing,
as performed in the Temple at Salt Lake City, is administered in a
similar manner in this Temple, and provision therefor is made. For
all the sacred ordinances there is ample equipment of rooms and
furnishings. The basement floor is divided into fourteen rooms of which
the baptistry or font-room, thirty-five by forty feet, is one of the
largest and most important. As is usual, the baptistry is situated
below the general level of the assembly rooms. Also as in the other
temples, the baptismal font rests upon twelve oxen of cast iron,
which occupy a depression slightly below the floor. The font, {214}
oxen, iron stairs, and all accessories, weighing in all over eighteen
thousand pounds, were cast in Salt Lake City and were hauled by team
thence to St. George. The entire baptistry equipment was the personal
gift of President Brigham Young.
Above the basement there are two stories. In each of these there is
one main room ninety-nine by seventy-eight feet inside measurement,
with an arched or elliptical ceiling twenty-seven feet from the floor
in the center. Flanking this main apartment on either side are a
number of smaller rooms used for ordinance work and as assembly rooms
for councils of the Priesthood. The large room on the middle floor
corresponds in use to the splendid Celestial Room already described
as a prominent feature of the Temple at Salt Lake City. In the same
way the large room on the upper floor corresponds to the main assembly
room on the fourth floor of the Salt Lake City Temple, and is provided
with pulpits at both east and west ends, the former devoted to the use
of the Higher or Melchisedek Priesthood, the latter reserved for the
officials of the Lesser or Aaronic order of Priesthood.
Adjoining the main building is an accessory structure known as the
Annex; this is seventy-four feet long by twenty-four feet wide,
exclusive of a "lean-to" on the east side, which is forty-three feet by
nine feet. The Annex was built in 1882. It contains boiler and engine
rooms, apartments for the guard, a refectory for the accommodation of
workers, recorder's offices, etc.
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