White Community Memorial Chapel is a historic, non-denominational meetinghouse on Capitol Hill in Salt Lake City, Utah.
The structure was built from 1979 to 1980 with salvaged elements from the recently demolished Salt Lake 18th Ward meetinghouse, which had been constructed in the early 1880s.
Initially, the ward was made up of the families of church leaders such as Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball and Newel K. Whitney.
The Division of State History attempted to save the building onsite by asking the Utah Attorney General, Vernon B. Romney, to investigate the trust set up by Don Carlos Young in 1880 when the property was provided to the ward.
The trust required the land be used forever as a meeting place, but Romney determined that the members of the ward, and not the state, were the only ones that could bring a lawsuit over the matter.
Its steeple, windows, doors, benches and other reusable items were removed with the hope to include them in a rebuilt version of the chapel, to possibly be built in nearby Memory Grove.
[13] On April 23, 1979, a groundbreaking, officiated by Governor Scott M. Matheson, was held to begin construction of the chapel replica.
The chapel's original pulpit was used during the ceremony and the future outline of the structure was painted on the asphalt, with seats for guests arranged as they would be in the completed building.