From Deseret News archives:
Tabernacle reborn
Fewer pews means more legroom for today's patrons but room for an audience of only 3,456, compared to the 4,787 the building held before refurbishing began in January 2005.
The chandeliers were cleaned and rewired, the face of the organ pipes got a new layer of 23.5K gold leafing and carpeting on the rostrum area has been replaced with a replica of a pattern used in past years.
Yet the major changes in the building's configuration are hidden from public view, beneath the main floor, behind the huge pipe organ and inside the lattice-work ceiling.
Gone are the former baptistry, as well as a narrow hallway from which engineers regularly monitored the functioning of the 19th-century pipe organ.
Presiding Bishop H. David Burton said the Tabernacle will play host to a wider variety of events and performances than in years past, thanks in part to a newly installed stage lift that allows the rostrum area to sink into the floor, providing an expansive staging area for orchestras or other performances.
The new configuration allows three different "sets" for the building: one capable of hosting general conference there at some point in the future if the First Presidency wishes; a multistake conference setup capable of hosting either a single stake or more than one simultaneously; and the "performance stage" set where rostrum furnishings are stored the rostrum disappears into the floor, much like it does in the Conference Center.
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