SALT LAKE CITY -- The president, according to Mormon doctrine, is literally a seer, a prophet -- the president, that is, of the church. Usually American presidents have a somewhat lower reputation. Now that Mitt Romney, an active Mormon, is aspiring to the more mundane office, new attention has come upon the faith that guides him. And much of that...
SALT LAKE CITY -- All museums are temples of sorts, monuments to collectors or cultures, declarations of identity, gathering places for tribute. But museums of natural history have an even more distinctive stature. Their focus is not human history, measured in centuries, but natural history, measured in eons. And their subject is not a particular...
Leaders of the Mormon Church have apologized to the family of the Holocaust survivor and Jewish rights advocate Simon Wiesenthal after his parents were posthumously baptized in a Mormon ritual last month. Helen Radkey, a Salt Lake City researcher, found documentation of the baptism while conducting regular checks of a Church of Jesus Christ of...
Salt Lake City er hovedstaden i Utah, USA. Byen blev grundlagt den 24. juli 1847, da de første mormoner, anført af Brigham Young, ankom. Byen er hovedsæde for "Jesu Kristi Kirke af Sidste Dages Hellige". I 2002 var Salt Lake City værtsby for Vinter OL.
Byens byplan er baseret på en plan lagt kort efter grundlæggelsen. Byen består således af blokke arrangeret i kvadrater på 10 acres (4 hektar). Blokkene er delte af gader der er 132 fod (40 meter) brede, eller som det i sin tid blev formuleret: bredde nok til at et spand på 4 okser og en overdækket vogn kan vende.
Centrum i byen er tempelpladsen (Temple Square), og alle gader er koordinater der nummereres herfra. Således kan en vej eksempelvis være "100 North" eller$"2000 South Temple". Øst og vest regnes fra "State Street"
USA's første stormagasin, ZCMI (Zions Cooperative Mercantile Institution), blev åbnet i byen i 1868. Fold ud