| Great Mormon Tabernacle and Sea Gull Monument |
| The Tabernacle,
Salt Lake City, is one of the largest structures for religious worship in
the world. it is one-hundred and fifty feet by two-hundred and fifty feet
and eighty feet high. The arches of the roof rest upon forty-four stone
piers. The building was begun April 5, 1865 and completed in 1870. It is
located at the west side of Temple Block. The Sea Gull Monument was erected in commemoration of the Miraculous Delivery of the Mormon Pioneers from starvation when a plague of crickets threatened destruction of their crops in 1848 and 1849. Flocks of Sea Gulls appeared and preyed upon the destroyers until the pests vanished and the people were saved. |
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