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Show Tabernacle Designed by Young Designed by Firigham Young, the Mormon tabernacle was begun In 1MJ3 und completed In 1807. Henry Grow was the engineer and William Folsom the architect. It Is 150 feet wide, 2!)0 feet long and approximately approx-imately 70 feet to the ceiling and 80 feet to the roof. Itesting on 44 stone buttresses, it has a seating capacity of 8,000. The roof consists of over 1,000,000 feet of lumber held together togeth-er by wooden pins. There are 27 exits, all opening outward. |