Provo Tabernacle

The Provo Tabernacle caught fire about 3AM December 17th 2010. I drove by the fire around 6AM on my way to work but I did not have my camera. The building burned throughout the day and was still smoking and steaming when I took these photos around 2AM on the 18th. The street on the south side of the Tabernacle was completely closed off, but I was able to get some pictures from the NuSkin parking structure which is directly to the west of the building.

I’ve never been in the Tabernacle but it was on my list of Provo centric photos I planned on taking. Its difficult to wrap my head around the Tabernacle being gone. It has been a landmark in Provo for over a hundred years and was destroyed in a day. I always intended to take photos of the Tabernacle at the “optimal time” including time of day, weather conditions and time of year… however, instead of focusing on what-might-have-been I’m reminded of this aphorism by Mason Cooley, “Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.”