LDS Conference Center, Salt Lake City

The LDS Conference Center is the premier meeting hall for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the LDS Church, popularly known as the "Mormon Church"). Completed in the spring of 2000 in time for the church's April 2000 general conference, the 21,000-seat Conference Center replaced the nearby Salt Lake Tabernacle, built in 1868, as the site of the semiannual LDS Church general conferences and major church gatherings, devotionals, and other events. It is believed to be the largest theater-style auditorium ever built. The 1.4-million-square-foot (130,000 m2) Conference Center seats 21,200 people in its main auditorium. This includes the rostrum behind the pulpit facing the audience, which provides seating at general conference for 158 general authorities and general officers of the church and the 360-voice Mormon Tabernacle Choir. The auditorium is large enough to hold two Boeing 747s inside.