Salt Lake Tabernacle
The Salt Lake Tabernacle (also known as the Mormon Tabernacle ) is a building belonging to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Temple Square in Utah's state capital, Salt Lake City . The Church's six-monthly general conference was held there until the conference center was completed . The Mormon Tabernacle Choir practices and performs regularly in the tabernacle. The room can accommodate around 5000 people.
Building history
Construction of the meeting house began in 1864 and was completed in 1867. It was constructed in such a way that a speaker can be heard by everyone present without amplifiers and loudspeakers that did not exist at the time. The good room acoustics stir u. a. This is due to the fact that larger amounts of animal hair have been added to the lime plaster, which means that the sound is better absorbed . An optimal reverberation time of 2.2 seconds is achieved quite precisely when around 2500 listeners are present.
The tabernacle has been designated a National Historic Landmark and a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark .
The tabernacle was renovated from January 2005 to March 2007 and rededicated on March 31, 2007 by President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Gordon B. Hinckley .
Furnishing
Organ of the Salt Lake Tabernacle
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Vern O. Knudsen: Room acoustics . In: The physics of musical instruments . 2nd Edition. Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, Heidelberg and Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-8274-0291-3 , p. 144, 149 .
Coordinates: 40 ° 46 ′ 13.4 " N , 111 ° 53 ′ 34.8" W.