Despite the lack of a formal lighting ceremony, Christmas lights are now on at downtown Salt Lake City’s Temple Square — albeit on a more limited basis than most Yuletide seasons.
Ongoing construction and renovation at Temple Square — scheduled, at last word, to be completed in 2025, means fewer lights than before the project began back in 2020. Still, the lights will be on daily from 6 to 8 a.m. and 4:30 to 10 p.m. through Jan. 1, according to a news release from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
A collection of Nativities from around the world also will be on display at the Assembly Hall from Nov. 26 through Dec. 31.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Visitors look at the lights on Temple Square, on Friday, Nov. 25, 2022.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Visitors look at the lights on Temple Square, on Friday, Nov. 25, 2022.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Lights on Temple Square, on Friday, Nov. 25, 2022.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Visitors look at the lights on Temple Square, on Friday, Nov. 25, 2022.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Visitors look at the lights on Temple Square, on Friday, Nov. 25, 2022.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Visitors look at the lights on Temple Square, on Friday, Nov. 25, 2022.
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