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Salt Lake City: The Place Which God Prepared

Scott C. Esplin and Kenneth L. Alford, Editors
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Table of Contents

  • Introduction
  • Remarks at the Dedication of the Church History Library
    Marlin K. Jensen
  • Salt Lake City
    Founded upon the Doctrine and Covenants
    Craig James Ostler
  • Ensign Peak
    Dennis A. Wright and Rebekah E. Westrup
  • The Design, Construction, and Role of the Salt Lake Temple
    Richard O. Cowan
  • The Salt Lake Tabernacle
    A Witness to the Growth of God's Kingdom
    Scott C. Esplin
  • The Salt Lake Theatre
    Brigham's Playhouse
    Kenneth L. Alford and Robert C. Freeman
  • The Beehive and Deseret
    Mormon Symbols in Salt Lake City
    Susan Easton Black
  • Thomas Bullock
    "The Lord's Clerk"
    Arnold K. Garr
  • "And Should We Die"
    Pioneer Burial Grounds in Salt Lake City
    David F. Boone
  • Camp Douglas
    Keeping a Watchful Eye on the Saints
    Kenneth L. Alford
  • The Arrival of Nineteenth-Century Mormon Emigrants in Salt Lake City
    Fred E. Woods
  • A House for the Presidency
    The History of the Church Administration Building
    Matthew O. Richardson
  • Correlation
    The Turning Point (1960s)
    Michael A. Goodman
  • Historical Highlights of LDS Family Services
    John P. Livingstone
  • "From the Crossroads of the West"
    Lloyd D. Newell
  • Salt Lake City
    An International Center for Family History
    Kip Sperry
  • Salt Lake City
    City Stake of Zion
    Craig James Ostler

About the Book

For more than 150 years, “Come, Come, Ye Saints,” the anthem of the pioneer journey, has praised Salt Lake City as “the place, which God for us prepared.” This new book from Brigham Young University’s Religious Studies Center analyzes the fulfillment of that poetic longing. The sixteenth in a series of regional studies on Latter-day Saint church history, it contains a collection of essays by faculty members in the Department of Church History and Doctrine discussing Salt Lake’s place in our sacred story. Topics include histories of significant landmarks, stories from the city’s past, and discussions of Church organizations. The reader will see connections between the revelations of Joseph Smith and Salt Lake City as a modern city of Zion, the place, indeed, where the Saints have been blessed.

ISBN 978-0-8425-2799-6

Published in 2011

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