Religious Diversity in Salt Lake City

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• Sikh Temple of Utah [1]
  Address: 4897 South Redwood Road, Taylorsville, UT. This building is home for the Sikh community in Utah.
• American Fork Third Ward Meetinghouse, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints [3]
  Address: 198 West 300 North, American Fork, UT. The meetinghouse for the American Fork LDS Third Ward was dedicated in 1903, with additions in 1938 and 1958. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints sold this property in 1994. It was the Briar Rose Preschool, a daycare center, between 1994 and 2000, and then was remodeled to be a reception center. This is a view of the interior of the former chapel.
• Huntington, Emery County, Utah [06]
  Scan of Photo of Tabernacle in Huntington Utah. Built in 1900
• St. Anthony Church, Helper, Utah, 1914
  Photograph of unidentified people standing on the steps of St. Anthony Church building, Helper, Utah, taken in 1914.
• Masjid Al-Noor
  Address: 740 South 700 East (previously 738 So. 700 E.), Salt Lake City. This site was the home of a Swedish mission church as early as 1911. It was the Evangelical Free Church until 1960, then First United Pentacostal Church from 1960 into the 1970s; the First Apostolic Church (which moved to West Valley City), and also the Metropolitan Community Church for a time. It was purchased by the Islamic Society of Salt Lake about 1987 and remodeled as a mosque.
• Anthony’s Fine Arts & Antiques
  Address: 401 East 200 South, Salt Lake City. Two Baptist churches in town voted to merge in 1908, and laid the cornerstone for a new building in October 1910. It was dedicated in 1915 and used by the congregation until 1954, when they moved to a new location on 1300 East. (Renamed First Baptist Church). The LDS Church purchased the building for use as a recreation and seminary center. It has had several uses over the years, but since 1994 has been the home of Anthony's Fine Arts & Antiques.
• Joseph Smith Memorial Building
  Address: 15 E S Temple, Salt Lake City. The Hotel Utah opened in 1911 and ran as a hotel until 1987. When its owner, the LDS Church, repurposed it for church offices, it was renamed the Joseph Smith Memorial Building. A historic ballroom was repurposed as a chapel and is the home of two wards, the old 19th Ward and the Canyon Road Ward. This makes the old hotel building as perhaps the church's largest ward house.
• Capital Church (Assembly of God)
  Address: 1010 East 700 South, Salt Lake City. Formerly the Emigration Ward LDS Chapel, whose original building was built in 1910. Replaced in 1951. When the LDS Church closed it, they sold it to the Assemblies of God. It was called "Christian Life Center, Assembly of God" in a 1990 Polk Directory, but renamed before 2000.
• Capital Church (Assembly of God)
  Address: 1010 East 700 South, Salt Lake City. Formerly the Emigration Ward LDS Chapel, whose original building was built in 1910. Replaced in 1951. When the LDS Church closed it, they sold it to the Assemblies of God. It was called "Christian Life Center, Assembly of God" in a 1990 Polk Directory, but renamed before 2000.
• Korean Presbyterian Church, 21st South
  Address: 2018 E. 2100 South, Salt Lake City. This post-World War II building was originally the home of the First Church of the Nazarene, which moved to West Valley City. The Korean congregation, established by 1990, was previously housed at 425 E. 700 South until this space became available.
• First United Methodist Church
  Address: 203 S. 200 East, Salt Lake City. The first Methodist missionary, Rev. Lewis Hartsough, preached his first sermon in Dec. 1869 at Independence Hall. The first official meeting took place on 22 May 1870, Rev. Gustavus Peirce presiding, and a building erected in 1871 on 300 South. That building was sold in 1905 and a new site selected a block away. The present building was completed in 1906. Today it also hosts an Urdu Methodist congregation.
• Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church
  Address: 1070 So. Foothill Blvd., Salt Lake City This church began with a Swedish congregation organized in 1882. Work began in 1885 on a church building at 376 East 200 South, and it was completed in 1891. After 65 years, the congregation moved to its present home on the East Bench at 1070 Foothill Boulevard in 1957. The old building was demolished, but its historic bell was installed in the belfry of the new church. This building also plays host to the Salt Lake City Insight Meditation Community, associated with the Theravada Buddhist tradition.
• Free Church of Tonga
  Address: 776 West 200 North, Salt Lake City. Originally the John D. Spencer Branch public library, built in 1921 and closed in 1965. The church was there by the time of Polk 1990 directory.
• Chua Tam Bao
  Address: 469 and 475 No. 700 West, Salt Lake City. Formerly two private residences, the northern building was developed as a temple for Vietnamese Buddhist immigrants in 1984, and now houses a nunnery. The southern building was dedicated as a pagoda in 1990.
• Madina Mosque
  Address: 1773 West North Temple, Salt Lake City. The building was a bank until the early 2000s.
• InsideOUT Office Interiors
  Address: 479 South 700 East, Salt Lake City. The congregation was established 1877, and erected its first building in 1886, later replaced by this one, built on the same site in 1905. The congregation dissolved in 1950 and members formed a new church in Holladay or joined First Congregational Church, which has its historical archives. The building now houses an office interiors store.
• 18th Ward Mormon Chapel, 107 "A" Street.
  Photo of the 18th Ward Mormon Chapel, 107 "A" Street in Salt Lake City, Utah; this chapel was dismantled and moved to 128 East 300 North across from the state capitol in the 1970s.
• Salt Lake City Eighteenth (18th) Ward
  Image shows the Salt Lake City 18th ward, which was built on an old estate of Brigham Young.
• Free Mission Swedish Evangelical, 734 700 East.
  Photo of the Swedish Evangelical Free Mission, 734 700 East in Salt Lake City, Utah.
• Josephite Re-Organized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 336 400 East.
  Photo of a Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (RLDS) church building on 336 400 East, Salt Lake City, Utah.
• Temple B'nai Israel, Salt Lake City.
  Photo showing Temple B'nai Israel, a synagogue located at 249 South 400 East, Salt Lake City, Utah
• Phillips Congregational Church, 700 East 500 South.
  Photo of Phillips Congregational Church, on 700 East 500 South, Salt Lake City, Utah.
• Immanuel Baptist Church, 401 E. 200 South
  Photo of Immanuel Baptist Church on 401 E. 200 South in Salt Lake City, Utah.
• Japanese Church of Christ.
• Buddhist Temple, Salt Lake City