No. The church seems to be silent on the matter. But with the removal of the murals, additional "instruction rooms" and second set of oxen. I find it hard to imagine a whole floor being left to a rarely used chapel.
When missionaries were not so numerous, all new missionaries spent a week at the Salt Lake City Mission Home, getting hosed down with righteousness.
One of the hosing sessions was at the Salt Lake Temple, where after a session, the females (LMs) were dismissed and all the males were escorted up to the solemn assembly hall.
We were encouraged to ask any questions we had. I don't recall a single question, but I bet I could give the appropriate answer.
I do remember thinking how old and shriveled all the old White guys looked.
It was the following day that I accidentally flipped Joseph Fielding Smith the bird. I hope this is mentioned at any vigil that is held after the Waterbear aliens kidnap me.
You flipping off Joseph Fielding Smith reminded me of something that happened to a missionary pal of mine. He was driving in SLC near the COB when a large sedan cut him off. My friend started cussing and came up next to car to give the driver at least a glare if not the middle finger. He saw that the driver was N. Eldon Tanner (who was then in the First Presidency).
I wonder if President Tanner was a bit too old to be driving-or helping to lead the church, at that time.
>... It was the following day that I accidentally > flipped Joseph Fielding Smith the bird.
My TBM father did worse: It was stake quarterly conference in our stake, and JFS was the visiting General Authority. Just after the morning session ended, my dad was in the men's room standing at one of the urinals, and he said to his friend at the neighboring urinal, "Boy, that Joseph Fielding Smith is sure full of himself, isn't he!" Just then JFS came out of one of the stalls.
Sat in JFS's apartment once interviewing his wife on her birthday. He sat in the chair opposite and appeared completely out of it until about 10 minutes after she said something he voiced his agreement.
A friend of mine that used to accompany her on the piano told me they had to transpose the music down a step every couple years. Her voice kept going down down down. Maybe she was going down down down on JFS
like they need the "solemn assembly" rooms. I once had to attend a solemn assembly in the DC temple. Their assembly room is pretty huge, and all those podiums are kind of intimidating. But I was in for the most boring two hours of my life. I'm still trying to get those hours back. I never learned what made it "solemn," or how that would even help.
The Logan, Manti, Salt Lake and Washington DC temples all have solemn assembly halls on the top floor. They take up almost half the temple. The original blue prints for the Salt Lake temple had two assembly halls just like the Kirkland and Nauvoo.
Temp,es used to be two meeting halls, offices and class rooms. The essentially were multipurpose buildings. I think Joseph Smith becoming a free mason gave him ideas to make the temple more secret and make it more of a fraternity.
It took a long time to vacuum the carpet in the solemn room in DC temple when i was a janitor there back in 1975-76 after the glorious mission to the philippines. It was also a balancing act to wipe out the ring around the font and not fall on the oxen horns.
I had a friend whose career as an electrician then postal worker then church janitor was ended when ChurchCo went to 'volunteers'; his wife divorced him & she took up with a parts manager at a car dealership...
Heartless Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Anyone know if they are removing the large solem > assembly rooms from the temples? HEY!! It is their club--"they" own the rules "they" can do what "they" damn well please