At Christmas,
Temple Square is set up with over 300,000 lights and is visited by numerous visitors. The
Temple Square is a 10 acre block in middle downtown Salt Lake City. Housing two visitor centers, the Tabernacle, the Assembly Hall and several monuments and statues within its 15 feet walls it is a popular tourist spot in Utah. One of the visitor centers houses an 11-foot marble replica of Danish sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen's "The Christus". You can enjoy a relaxing stroll around the grounds taking in the natural beauty and spectacular Christmas lighting or enjoy the Mormon Tabernacle Choir rehearsals on Thursday evenings. If walking tires you out, you can cuddle up under a blanket and go for a ride around town in a horse-drawn carriage. Usually, located near the south entrance of
Temple Square the carriages are ideal to get your family in the festive spirit.
Combine the festive Christmas lights, serene natural settings and wonderful Christmas music with some Christmas shopping at the downtown malls and it becomes a great experience you and your family are bound to remember for some time to come.
The Christmas lights at
Temple Square are illuminated the day after Thanksgiving and stay lit through the holiday season. The rehearsals at the Mormon Tabernacle Choir are open to the public on Thursday evenings from 8 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. and Sunday mornings from 8:15 a.m. to 10 a.m. Also, providing the perfect vantage point for a romantic Christmas meal, The Roof Restaurant, just adjacent to
Temple Square, provides great views of the grounds.
