Journal of Undergraduate Research
Keywords
Council House, sacred ordinances, early Church, Mormon studies
College
Religious Education
Department
Church History and Doctrine
Abstract
With no available temples wherein they could perform their endowments, early Saints performed endowments for the living in various other places. For example, when Church members first entered the Salt Lake valley, their early endowments were performed on top of Ensign Peak. This was a special exception for missionaries returning from the South Pacific who missed the Nauvoo era completely1. For this paper I concentrated on the Council House as a similar temple substitute. Though not a temple, between its construction in 1850 and its eventual destruction in 1883, the Council House on Temple Square served as Utah’s first established location for administration of sacred ordinances for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Recommended Citation
Bradshaw, Gil and Woods, Dr. Fred E.
(2014)
"The Council House as a House for Sacred Ordinances in the Early Church,"
Journal of Undergraduate Research: Vol. 2014:
Iss.
1, Article 1338.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/jur/vol2014/iss1/1338