Salt Lake Temple
The Salt Lake Temple, informally called the Salt Lake City Temple, is the fourth and best-known temple church of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and is located in Salt Lake City, Utah. The site on which it sits was dedicated on February 14, 1853. Groundbreaking ceremonies were presided by Brigham Young who laid the cornerstone. Construction officially began on April 6. Oxen transported granite from Little Cottonwood Canyon twenty miles southeast of the construction site. When construction was finally completed, LDS President Wilford Woodruff dedicated the temple church on April 6, 1893, exactly forty years after construction started. The temple church is the centerpiece of the 10-acre Temple Square in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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