We love to walk around Temple Square whenever we can so last night before the storm moved into the city we walked over after dark and took some time exposures - it's such a beautiful sight. I can't get over how a bunch of poor exiles found the energy to build one of the country's premier pieces of architecture in a wasteland. Only their deep faith in the Savior could have helped them through all their trials and tribulations during the 40 years that it took to build such a marvelous place of worship....and they did it by hand and without modern equipment of any kind. Oxen pulled sleds of raw cut granite for two days to get it from the quarry to the building site where it was cut to shape and hand finished to specification. We can't get over its beauty and never tire of looking at it - day or night. We can't wait for the Christmas lights to be turned on the day after Thanksgiving.
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