BYU Studies Quarterly Volume 57 Issue 2 Article 6 2018 Photographs of the Interior of the Salt Lake Tabernacle, December 1905 Richard Neitzel Holzapfel Brigham Young University Ronald L. Fox Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/byusq Part of the Mormon Studies Commons, and the Religious Education Commons Recommended Citation Holzapfel, Richard Neitzel and Fox, Ronald L. (2018) "Photographs of the Interior of the Salt Lake Tabernacle, December 1905," BYU Studies Quarterly: Vol. 57 : Iss. 2 , Article 6. Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/byusq/vol57/iss2/6 This Artwork is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals at BYU ScholarsArchive. It has been accepted for inclusion in BYU Studies Quarterly by an authorized editor of BYU ScholarsArchive. For more information, please contact
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[email protected]. Holzapfel and Fox: Photographs of the Interior of the Salt Lake Tabernacle, December Figure 1. Salt Lake Tabernacle, December 1905, photographer unknown (PH 91 8.1, 15 cm × 10 cm, contact print), Church History Library. The Latter-day Saints celebrated the one hundredth anniversary of Joseph Smith’s birth in December 1905. Joseph F. Smith, the Prophet’s nephew and sixth President of the Church, dedicated a granite memorial at Joseph Smith’s birthplace in Sharon, Windsor County, Vermont, on December 23, 1905. On the following day, twenty thousand Latter-day Saints gathered in the historic Salt Lake Tabernacle in two meetings to remember the Prophet. This photograph highlights a view of the interior of the Tabernacle, decorated for the centennial celebration of the Prophet’s birth.