The Sphinx - Gilgal Sculpture Garden
The contrast of the unhewn stones arranged to suggest a crouching animal with the finely carved face of LDS Church founder Joseph Smith makes this a remarkable piece. Child carefully selected the huge quartzite stones to form the Sphinx’s body and hired sculptor Maurice Brooks to create the face using an oxyacetylene torch.
Gilgal Sculpture Garden - Wikipedia
The park, which is filled with unusual symbolic statuary associated with Mormonism, notably to the Sphinx with Joseph Smith's head, was designed and created by LDS businessman Thomas Battersby Child, Jr. (1888-1963) in his spare time. The park contains 12 original sculptures and over 70 stones engraved with scriptures, poems and literary texts.
Is the Joseph Smith sphinx real? Yes, yes it is. - ABC4 Utah
2024年9月28日 · Despite that fact, some people may not fully believe the rumors and whispers that Utah is home to a sphinx bearing the face of Joseph Smith, who was the founder and the first prophet of the LDS church. ABC4.com is here to tell you that the rumors are true — the Joseph Smith sphinx is real.
Yes, there really is a sphinx in Utah with the face of Joseph ...
2024年10月1日 · Despite that fact, some people may not fully believe the rumors and whispers that Utah is home to a sphinx bearing the face of Joseph Smith, who was the founder and the first prophet of the...
Gilgal Sculpture Garden - Public Lands Department
Many of the sculptures surround LDS themes, one being the most well-known sculpture: a sphinx with the face of Joseph Smith, founder of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
See A Joseph Smith Sphinx At Utah's Gilgal Garden
2024年4月30日 · Not far from these two pretty spots is another garden ... one that's both beautiful and even features an unusual Joseph Smith Sphinx. Read on to learn all you need to know about one of the most interesting places in Utah.
Secret SLC: The Sphinx of Salt Lake - Salt Lake Magazine
2023年2月3日 · What adventurous teen wouldn’t want to sneak into a strange yard filled with bizarre carvings featuring ominous Biblical verses set in the stones, and (why not?) a sphinx-like creature bearing the visage of LDS Church founder Joseph Smith?
Urban Myth 3: Gilgal Garden and the Joseph Smith Sphinx
2013年4月28日 · For my third and final urban myth, I wanted to focus on an often circulation story about a sculpture in Salt Lake City that is a sphinx with the head of Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism. Unlike the previous urban myths, this is not a myth at all; it is actually a real place.
Gilgal Garden, Salt Lake City, Utah - Roadside America
Strange folk art environment features a two-ton sphinx carved with the face of Mormon church founder Joseph Smith.
Gilgal Sculpture Garden - Atlas Obscura
2014年12月31日 · The most arresting of his creations is a sphinx with the head of Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormon Faith. However, the garden is filled with all kinds of strange carved images, such as ...
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