Before the Salt Lake Temple became a symbol recognized around the world, it was a dream carried west by exhausted pioneers crossing the plains.
From the moment Brigham Young declared, "Here will be the temple of our God," generations of Latter-day Saints devoted their labor, resources, and faith to building a structure unlike any they had attempted before. Granite was quarried in the mountains, hauled by ox team, shaped by hand, and assembled stone by stone over four decades of sacrifice.
Many who helped build it never lived to see its completion.
