Haylley Porter form Preston guides people to Traveling Tabernacle on Wed. Aug 17, 2022.

NORTH LOGAN – The Preston area members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints were out in force Wednesday to guide the public through the Traveling Tabernacle, located at 1550 N. 400 E. in Logan. The Traveling Tabernacle is scheduled to be in Logan until Monday, September 26, and each of the 40 LDS stakes in the region have wards assigned to volunteer at the exhibit for a day.

A small group of people gather at the Sacrificial Alter in the Traveling Tabernacle in Logan on Wed. August 17,202.

Frank Schofield, a volunteer spokesman for the church from Smithfield, said the Traveling Tabernacle is an opportunity for all the area faiths and religions to have a shared experience.

“The display is sponsored by the LDS Church and it’s set up and taken down by missionaries,” he said. “But the tabernacle display is for everyone to visit.”

Schofield stresses that it is not a proselyting event. Volunteers from across the valley are taking turns staffing the Traveling Tabernacle and explaining the different symbols and parts of the Hebrew temple replica.

“The tabernacle gives us an opportunity to share what we have in common with the different religions in the area,” Schofield said. “This exhibit should give us a way to come together to talk about what we have in common that could unite us in a time when there is so much division among us.”

He said that’s what God would expect from us, to come together and love one another.

Richard West of Cache Community Connections said there will be an interfaith day on Wednesday, Sept. 7. and an interfaith lecture on Sunday, Sept. 18 at Logan High School at 7 p.m.

They are working on finding a Rabi to talk at the interfaith service.

There is also a Multi-Stake Fireside concerning the Traveling Tabernacle at the Spectrum at Utah State University on Tuesday, Aug. 30 at 7 p.m.

A young man from Preston explains what the alter is in the Holy of Hollies in the replica of the Old Testament of the Bible on Wed. Aug 17,2007.

For the most part, the youth from Idaho were being the tour guides Wednesday and reading from prepared scripts about temple and temple worship anciently.

Elder and Sister Woods, senior missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from the south Logan area, were going through the replica of Moses’ tabernacle and listening to young men and young women teaching how the temple worship was done in the days of Moses.

The auditorium gymnasium is filled with images and explanations of temple worship and the different temples around the world.

This exhibit is an exact one-to-one replica of a tabernacle from the Bible,” he said. “It shows many of the symbols from the Old Testament Tabernacles.”

Senior missionaries from the Preston area were also getting acquainted with their responsibilities.

“We have had about 100 people go through so far,” Elder Summers said. “We aren’t sure how many to expect because this is the first day.”

He said the Traveling Tabernacle was supposed to be there 40 days and each of the area’s 40 stakes in the region has a ward that is supposed to provide tours of the exhibit for a day.

Umbrellas were available to shade people’s heads from the sun.

Sariah Porter from Preston waits to show the nest group where to go after leaving the church Wednesday Aug. 17.

The youth were dressed in Sunday attire, men wearing white shirts with ties and the young women in dresses staffing the different stages of the tour.

Patrons will see the pattern of the Tabernacle by going in through the Gate, then see the Alter of Sacrifice, the Laver of Water. Then they will go into a room called the Holy Place and on to another room the Holy of Holy’s.

The exhibit is expected to bring thousands to experience the ancient place of worship.



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