Salt Lake City: Livability in the 21st Century

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THE CHURCH OF
JESUS CHRIST OF
LATTER-DAY SAINTS
Right: Historic Temple Square is one of Utah’s most visited attractions,
drawing millions of visitors a year, and is part of the thirty-five-acre
world headquarters of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Temple Square consists of the Salt Lake Temple, the Tabernacle (home of the
Mormon Tabernacle Choir), the Assembly Hall and two visitors’ centers.
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Below: Inside the 21,000-seat Conference Center, where members of the
Church gather twice yearly for General Conference.
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Millions of people from around
the world visit Salt Lake City each
year. Some come for the skiing, others
for the spectacular national parks.
Many come to visit the world headquarters
of The Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Situated in the heart of downtown,
the Church’s thirty-five acre
main campus draws visitors from all
over the world because of its
renowned research libraries, cultural
activities and historic buildings—
most notably the Salt Lake Temple
at the center of Temple Square.
Volunteer tour guides on Temple
Square come from fifty-one nations and speak more than
thirty languages to accommodate foreign guests.
Some visitors also come to see
the Church’s Humanitarian Center
and to learn how it partners locally
and internationally with other
faiths and nonprofit organizations
to minister to those in need. For
example, Salt Lake City is a refugee
relocation center, and the Church
offers refugees, regardless of
religious affiliation, an opportunity
to work in its international
Humanitarian Center in Salt Lake
City, providing them with food,
clothing, job training, and English,
computer, and cultural adaptation
classes. They also receive medical,
educational, and emotional support
through the Church and its interfaith partners. The training
programs normally last up to eighteen months, after which
participants are helped to find long-term employment.
The Church’s Humanitarian Center was established in 1991
to provide emergency supplies to those who were suffering in
the wake of natural and man-made disasters. Humanitarian
leaders work together globally with Catholic Relief Services,
the American Red Cross, the Red Crescent, among others to
provide services and supplies in disaster zones.
Typically the Humanitarian Center will ship approximately
8 million pounds of shoes and clothing, 500,000 hygiene
and school kits, and 20,000 quilts to relieve suffering in
more than 50 countries every year. The Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints has provided over $1 billion in
financial and material assistance to individuals in more
than 170 countries since 1985, when the Church began
tracking such information. Relief supplies are provided
locally and internationally to relieve suffering without regard
for ethnicity, religion, or political persuasion.
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