Coordinates: 40°46′13.68480″N 111°53′31.04880″W / 40.770468°N 111.891958°W / 40.770468; -111.891958 The Salt Lake Temple is the largest and best-known of more than 130 temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It is the sixth temple completed by the church, requiring 40 years to complete, and the fourth operating temple built since the Mormon exodus from Nauvoo, Illinois.
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—Bible: New Testament Jesus, in Matthew, 5:13.
From the Sermon on the Mount.
“A lake is the landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth’s eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature. The fluviatile trees next the shore are the slender eyelashes which fringe it, and the wooded hills and cliffs around are its overhanging brows.”
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