West Bountiful Church

The same adobe bricks served this congregation across three buildings and nearly a century. West Bountiful's Latter-day Saints met in schoolhouses until 1872, when Joseph Fackrell deeded a lot and the members raised their first church, a room of adobe, paying for it in donated labor and produce. When they built a larger second church in 1904, they didn't discard the old adobe — they worked it into the new building's amusement hall. And when the present chapel went up in 1958, it was added onto that same hall. The bricks the first settlers molded were never thrown away.

What the plaque says

From 1860 to 1877 the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints held their services in school-houses. In 1872 Joseph C. Fackrell deeded the land upon which the first one-room adobe church was erected, donated labor and produce providing the means. Wm. Stewart Muir was the first bishop succeeded in 1885 by Joseph H. Grant. The original adobe was used in the amusement hall of the second church, dedicated Feb. 21, 1904. The present chapel was added to the amusement hall in 1958.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Lagoon Amusement Park — 6.3 mi
  A beloved family amusement park operating since 1886
• Ensign Peak — 7.2 mi
  A short hike to the spot where Brigham Young surveyed the valley
• Temple Square — 8.5 mi
  The spiritual and architectural heart of Salt Lake City
• Salt Lake City — 8.5 mi
  Utah's capital and largest city — where the Wasatch Range meets the Great Salt Lake.

More markers nearby

• Daniel Wood — 0.7 mi
• The Bamberger — 0.9 mi
• Bliss Hall — 1.0 mi
• Brick-Making in Bountiful — 1.1 mi