Tabernacle (LDS Church)

Tabernacles were typically built as endeavors of multiple congregations (termed wards or branches), usually at the stake level.

[1] There were 79 total tabernacles built during the mid-to-late nineteenth and early twentieth century, usually within areas of the Mormon Corridor near the Rocky Mountains in North America that had predominantly Latter-day Saint populations.

[2] The largest such tabernacle is in Salt Lake City on Temple Square.

While some tabernacles are still used for a few ecclesiastical and community cultural activities, stake centers are now normally used in their place.

Prior to 2000, the Salt Lake Tabernacle on Temple Square was used twice a year for the church's general conferences.