Show i I L f JREAT GHDRGH YEAR j t J jlaif Million in Constructing j Houses of Worship I i DENOMINATIONS AT WORK i i irst Presbyterian Church on BrIgham Street Leads i1 S j plendid Showing Hado by Different Organizations in Providing Places of Worship for tho People I H A sum approximating half a million ollars has been expended and con I I d acted to be expended during the year j L jet closing for the erection or church C dificcH throughout the city The boom I I 11 ecclesiastical architecture is proba ly unprecedented In the history of the 1 ityNINE I t NINE HOUSES OF WORSHIP t r The greater portion of that amount f as been expended this year Con 1 Bracts for the balance have been let nd the money will be spent during the j 11 emainder of the year and early In the cst year The amount represents the 1 1 I onstructlon of nine new houses of I orshlp and the remodeling and im l1 rovement of two old building Seven It iffercnt congregations and religions > re represented in the expenditure p 1 H FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH i The First Presbyterian church at I Jrlgham and C streets is the most pre entlous of any of the new houses of if I orshlp which are being erected When t I omplcted the edifice will cost 3120000 i nd will be one oC the most elegant tructures of Its kind in the West It f ill not be ready for occupancy until prlng or early summer i I NEW WESTMINSTER CHURCH I 1 The Westminster church also Pres i1 ytcrian has Just purchased a lot at 4 t first West and Fifth South streets 1 herc a handsome church building will 1 e erected It Is estimated that the 1 ulldins will cost 30000 when com letcd The edifice will be modern In very respect and will be a great im 0rovement to the appearance of that b > art of the city LIBERTY PARK METHODIST 1 Excavation work has just begun on Tihc lot which has been purchased by r he Liberty Park Methodist church t he lot Is situated at Ninth South and i ClghTh East streets and a building will 11 l e erected at n cost of 510000 While I Mie building will not be a pretentious It ffalr It will be thoroughly modern il I ivpnd a model In architectural design L 1 i NEW UNITARIAN CHURCH I I I > I r1 The Unitarian church on Second f t j iSast between First and Second South I mrccts was dedicated last Sunday I fchen It was first used by the congrega jjlon 1 as a place of worship The build j ng was erected at a cost of 15000 and I 1s one of the most complete In its ar I Iangements of any similar building In I he city I i j SEVENTHDAY ADVENTISTS I J The SeventhDay Adventists are I reeling It church building at Fifth I south and Sixth East streets The con gregation 1 is small In numbers in the I > ity and consequently a small building 1 is being erected When completed It Ijvill cost between 3000 and 1000 It is iSalil 1 to be complete in its appointments 1 Itnd will be ready for occupancy with r n a few weeks NEW EPISCOPAL CHURCH j In Perkins addition the Eplscopa 4 i lans are remodeling and Improving j nerally their house of worship The I dlficc was originally constructed as a Impel but a growing congregation I ins compelled a larger building Per ctns addition whore the church is lo 1 ated Is In the southeastrrn part of the I Ity on the east slue oC Ninth East and I lie north side of Eleventh South I i t MORMON MEETINGHOUSES A new meetinghouse has been erect I d by the Mormons in a new cccleslas I teal ward known ns the Thirtysecond i t S rhe building IH located at Eleventh Cast and Fifth South and has only re II pntly been completed It cost in the iclghborhood of 0000 II 1 Another meetinghouse of the Mor i nons wns erected in the Twentyfourth I lccleslastlcal i ward at First and L I I jjtreets It cost approximately Sl lOOO jfhe Church of Jesus Christ of Latter jpay Saints has reeled another meet I Irighouse on Ninth j East between jpleventh and Twelfth South streets mitt building cost 7000 p I A magnificent stako house has Just I heen completed by the Mormons on > Slate Street half way between the city snd Murray It is known as the Gran 1 flld slake meetlturhouse and I t cost be ween 520000 and 525000 It has a I lomed wiomeu roof and a spire and Is rm erned after the Temple I 1 NEW JEWISH SYNAGOGUE TIH orthodox Jews have just f1 Son a synagogue on Third East corn be d ween Third and Fourth South iJt has not been streets dcd cated but will h2 lcUic shortly The building cost I iOOOO rue congregation is coinno ed if strictly orthodox Jews I The Mormons have 1 recently i Dieted a large addition com to the meeting rleted louse at State and Seventh South streets The addition practically dou i < s the capacity of the bulldln in Giving the expenditure of several thOusand dollars This does not take into account the I I f argc amount expended on the new St Marys catlicdrnl during the year |