12 January 2020

Salt Lake City Temple - Epicenter for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - Officially "De-Commissioned"

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2020.01.08 - THE SLC TEMPLE: THE REMOVAL FROM THE FOUNDATION
The Salt Lake City Temple is now closed until as early as 2024.
This week, dozens and dozens of moving trucks began hauling away all of the furniture, historical items, artwork, light fixtures, stain glass windows and sacred items


Once everything has been hauled off, the demolition of many of the buildings around the Temple will begin . . .
. . . in the April 2109 conference, President Nelson announced that the Temple will close for 4 years for major seismic and structural renovations to help the building withstand a large earthquake. According to Brent Roberts, the church’s director of special projects, this will require placing hundreds of shock absorbers between the ground and the building’s footings and foundations. “It actually will now be the foundation of the temple, so when the earth moves, the base isolation system takes all that movement."
"It actually will now be the foundation of the temple, so when the earth moves, the base isolation system takes all that movement,"  
 
So in other words, the original foundation that the Temple was build on will now be replaced by a "base isolation system". Essentially the building is no longer on rock, a steadfast and firm foundation, but on rollers that can move back and forth depending on the movement of the world."