Salt Lake City is the capital and largest city of Utah. Salt Lake City is also the center of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (also known as the Mormon Church). As the center of Mormonism, Salt Lake City is anchored by its Mormon pioneer roots.
Welcome to downtown Salt Lake City.
Calvin L. Rampton Salt Palace Convention Center is named after Utah's 11th Governor, Calvin L. Rampton.
A horse carriage at the street.
Looking at the city’s map for directions.
City Creek Center, a new major shopping area for the city, just opened in March 2012.
Fountain at City Creek Center.
Yummy chocolate ball. Too bad the shop was already closed by the time I reached there.
A big fat teddy bear at the Chocolate Factory.
View of the shopping area.
Silver bird sculptures at the City Creek Center.
One interesting fact about LDS Church is they used to practice polygamy. Long fights over the legal status of polygamy continued through the 1880s until the LDS Church prophet, Wilford Woodruff, told his members to give up polygamy in 1890. This declaration eventually allowed Utah to achieve statehood, with Salt Lake City as its capital, in 1896.
Temple Square consist of several administrative and assembly building which serves as the world headquarters for Mormon. The square also houses Salt Lake Temple, the biggest Mormon Temple in the world and is also Salt Lake City’s landmark.
The Salt Lake Temple at night. This magnificent granite structure was constructed over a period of 40 years, from year 1853 to year 1893. The building looks so beautiful at night. It almost looks like a fairy tale castle.
There are four gates at Temple Square: east, west, north and south.
Temple Square is open from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily. Unfortunately by the time I reached the Temple Square, it was already closed to visitors.
Mormonism is a religion originated from USA. Mormon uses standard biblical terminology, but uses their own Book of Mormon. Often confused by people, Mormons are not Christians.
It is reported that more than 63% of Utah’s people are members of the Mormon and approximately half of Salt Lake City’s people are Mormon.
The location for the temple was marked by Brigham Young.
The Brigham Young Monument is a bronzed historical monument located on the north sidewalk of the intersection at Main and South Temple Streets. It was erected in honour of pioneer-colonizer, 1st Utah's Governor and LDS Church President Brigham Young.
During the early days where polygamy is allowed, Brigham Young had 55 wives. Perhaps 1 wife per week? In that case, the wife would have met him once per year.
The Conference Center is home to the twice-yearly general conferences of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Seatings of more than 21,000 people at the main auditorium, this building is huge.
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View of Temple Square from the Conference Center.
Assembly Hall, a charming Gothic-style building with lovely stained-glass windows.
Church History Museum. Admission is free. Opens 7 days a week except holidays.
The building of Zions First National Bank.
11.20 already? Time to head back to the hotel.
Utah State Capitol, house of government for Utah located on Capitol Hill overlooking downtown Salt Lake City.
The quiet streets at downtown Salt Lake City at night.
Heading back to the hotel through the Main Street of the city.
A book shop at the Main Street.
The portrait of Jesus Christ.
Jesus the Christ sculpture.
A beautiful Santa Claus sculpture.
The city’s light rail system, TRAX.
Graffiti by the street.
McDonald’s is probably the only fast food chained restaurant that can declare proudly: “Billions & billions served.” Subway might be the largest restaurant chain, but McDonald has served the most customers in the world.
Decided to have our dinner at Denny’s restaurant. Denny’s, founded in 1953, is a full service restaurant chain which operates 24/7.
The yummy dessert named Banana Bread Pancake Puppies.
The bite-sized round banana pancake is packed with white chocolate and covered in powdered sugar. You can opt to eat it plain or dip it in the cream cheese icing!
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Our dinner is served. Everything looks so delicious. Good service and delicious food. Two thumbs up! They should open one in Kuala Lumpur.
Next morning, I visited the Great Salt Lake to enjoy the sunrise at the lake. How can anyone miss the Great Salt Lake after a visit to Salt Lake City? The name of the city practically comes from this lake.
The view of the Great Salt Lake at dawn.
Yachts docking by the lake. The calm waters of the lake really captured the reflection of its surrounding.
Great Salt Lake is just so beautiful!
The Great Salt Lake is actually a shrunken remnant of ancient Lake Bonneville.
The panoramic view of Great Salt Lake when the sun rises over the horizon.
Great Salt Lake, saltier than the sea have at times been called ‘America’s Dead Sea’
At an average of 4,400km² surface area, the great lake is huge. Well more than 6 times the size of puny Singapore.
2002 Winter Olympics was held here in Salt Lake City.
A shut-down casino by the lake.
Below are some of wonderful pictures I took as we depart from the Great Salt Lake. Such scenic sights.
Cows grazing at the field.
It’s the beginning of Autumn and some of the tree leaves were turning red.
From the spectacular rock formation and Great Salt Lake of Utah, I continued my journey to the State famous for its natural wonder and beauty.
Goodbye Utah, Hello Wyoming!
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