Salt Lake Temple

The best known Mormon Temple is the one in Salt Lake City.  It was built to be a showcase and is a beautiful building.  The Salt Lake LDS Temple is on icon of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.  It is one of the first temple sketches I made and one of the hardest ones to redo on the computer.  All the angles and line lengths don't compute well, even though the eye can see them.

Here is the rendition I have.

I can print this in any size up to 36" by 48".

I will print and mail then for

8" by 11"       $5

17" by 22"     $10

36" by 48"     $25

I haven't got PayPal set up, so if you want some, email me at alice@bneff.net.

Utah Temples

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints was founded in 1830 in Palmyra, New York.  Because this church was different, not a reformation of the Catholic Church but a Restoration of the Church that Christ had established during His earthly ministry, other Christians, and rough and tumble frontiersmen were against it.  Mobs drove the Latter-Day Saints or Mormons from one place to the next.  The Prophet Joseph Smith was killed and the people moved west to a Land of Promise.  Brigham Young lead them to Salt Lake Valley and they began to gather and build safely away from all other established settlements.

One of the first things God commanded Brigham Young to do was to build a temple.  The Salt Lake Temple took 40 years to complete.  This grand building was built while the people were living in shacks and dugouts.  Everyone that was able helped is some way.  Even while the Salt Lake Temple was being built, people were asked to move way from Salt Lake City and build towns all across what are now the States of Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Arizona and Nevada.  Three Mormon Temples were completed in Utah before the huge Salt Lake Temple was finished.

The temple in Saint George was the first to be didicated in Utah.

Mormon Temples are Beautiful Buildings

One of the most beautiful opportunities that our Father in Heaven has given us is the privilege of being married in His Holy House for Time and All Eternity.  This ceremony can only take place in one of the Temples of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.  These Temples are dedicated to the Lord for this Eternal Ordinance.  The Latter-Day Saint Temples are beautiful buildings.  They are a symbol of the great blessings our Father in Heaven has for us.  They also represent the commitment we make to honor one another and our marriage vows.  An Eternal Marriage takes work to keep the love we feel for one another alive forever and ever.

Temples of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints are not all the same design.  Rather Mormon Temples are built to compliment their surroundings and lift the eyes and spirits of all who view them toward heaven.

As a young bride I wanted a temple quilt.  So using a picture of the Salt Lake Temple I drew the design.  I made the quilt of white tricot and painted the Temple lines with silver Artex Fabric Paint. This temple feature a golden statue of the Angel Moroni on the highest spire and I painted it with gold paint.  I quilted around the outline of the temple and had sun rays and clouds to fill in.  

I then made a quilted bedspread showing all the Temples that had been built by the Mormon Church, or rather the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.  At the time there were 18 LDS Temples in the world.  From pictures published by the LDS Church of the Temples, I drew simple line drawings of each temple the size I needed for 9 temples on the quilted bedspread top and 3 on each side that hung down and 3 across the bottom.  I made quilts for our parents and brothers and sisters.

So many people loved the patterns that I began selling them through Mormon Handicraft, which is no more.  Some of the temples I have now drawn on the computer, some I drew by hand and have not redone, some I have not drawn but will be happy to if given a couple of weeks.

Young men and women love having a quilt made by their family as a special wedding gift.  Consider how they would feel if not only it was hand made by loved ones, but it reminds them of the covenants they made in the House of the Lord.