Salt Lake Temple Renovations Continue

Last Monday, we took a short detour as we walked through Temple Square to see the progress of the temple renovations.  They are doing work for a number of purposes--renovations needed to keep an old building in excellent repair, completed significant modifications for earthquake proofing, and to restore the building and its finishes to a more "true" to the original finishes of the building completed in the late 1880's.

They have updated the signage around the eastern viewing area of the temple---

This is dugged down at least 40 feet in this area and more to the north side.

Scaffolding covers the entire face of the temple now.

The words on the signage.....

I loved these quotes and it is powerful to be looking at the actual foundation of this amazing building and read these words.  How great to have Jesus Christ as the foundation of your life.

The north area.......

I am in awe at the scope and complexity of this huge project and the thousands of people involved to make it move forward.  I know people at the Church History Library are very involved in the process of trying to determine the historical details of finishes and furnishings for the inside of the temple.

On a side note, we recently had a lunch and learn called the "Feeding and Caring for Our Historical Churches" where one of the Church historians talked about this process of using journals, photos, and scientific equipment to determine paint types and colors, molding designs, and other details when restoring a building.  Of course, they don't use lead paint any more but they do try to match other vintage details.  It was very interesting!