Salt Lake Temple Time Capsule Opened

A few dozen construction workers removed the circular granite capstone of the Salt Lake Temple, along with its time capsule contents on May 18, 2020. This was done for preservation and refurbishing during the temple’s seismic upgrade that began in January 2020. Two days after the capstone’s removal from the temple, the First Presidency joined a small group in the loading dock of the Church History Library to witness the initial opening of the time capsule.

Some materials, such as a copper plate, coins and medallions are in good condition. The gold-leafed copper plate, discovered in the north cavity, is inscribed with the names of the Church General Authorities present for the laying of the temple cornerstone on April 6, 1853, as well as the names of Church General Authorities present at the laying of the capstone on the same date in 1892. Some 400 coins have been found inside the concrete — mostly nickels and dimes, some pennies, a few quarters, and six-pence, three-pence, half-dime and three-cent pieces. Some coins remain unexcavated in the concrete. Books, photos, letters and notes, on the other hand, suffered significant water damage because they were surrounded by cement.

[matthewmoore]

Love It! Church artifacts are amazing. I hope we uncover more. Even though some of these things may seem simple they're important to us. I personally have a piece of granite from the original Nauvoo temple and while it's not much it means a lot to me.

[s.ep]

shouldve been called how to not make a time capsule

[AhhSamboi]

Why was no one wearing gloves touching things?

[Staravora]

Interesting how they could manage to build that ornate and massive structure but apparently didn't know that concrete is going to partially destroy their time capsule artifacts 🧐

[andreamesser]

Why would they use concrete as the capstone when they used granite everywhere else?

[MadMaxV]

all that trouble and ruined by improper storage... :/

[DarronSanderson]

That would had been cool if some of the Golden Plates were in there.

[callanbrown]

Only the egyptians know how to preserve stuff it seems..

[art_apex.youtube]

It's quite sad that most of it was ruined. Europeans often look towards African cultures for what they can loot insted of what they can learn. Preservation techniques in African Egyptian culture would've told them all they needed to know.

[LavenderLori]

Did the original construction crew carry the orb and gold statute carried up there on that scaffolding? Did they have cranes back then? Are there photos?

[MassiveMouniFlaps]

Too bad they didn't know that concrete would mess up their timecapsue back then.

[IJustWatchYouTubeAllDay]

very cool but that was quite the disappointing sad the early saints did the time capsule in a way where everything was ruined.... ):

[geek]

somethings tells me they lost the instructions for how to open it.. Masonry today is not that different to a thousand years ago...

[bladerunnerblues]

Right, so nothing was found basically

[drc]

Would have been cool if they had someone who could see the future to tell them how to properly store and preserve the artifacts.

[brittajacobson]

My understanding is that the Mormon church of later day saints is founded on a patriotic hyeracy : but look what stood the test of time in this case *a coin from a young woman. 😔

[bonniewilson]

What did you add to it to try to change history..

[ColigacaodeIsraelReuniao]

The brazilian channel: Coligação de Israel.

[Ashs-mini-vlogs]

Lol Americans be like waw so old 130 years lol I'm English we have church's almost 1000 years old I own a roman coins lol Americans your so new lol no hate lol god bless

[mckster]

A gold leaf copper plate??? Joey's best work