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- Believed to be world's largest indoor auditorium - one-of-a-kind
design
- Ground broken July 24, 1997, completion scheduled sometime this year
- Cost: not released by the church; published reports at $240 million
- Building was not completely designed before construction began
- 1.4 million gross square feet of floor space, including parking structure; covers 10-acre city block
- 1,100 employees on-site during peak construction schedule; more than 80 subcontractors
- 116,000 cubic yards - 23.5 million gallons - of concrete poured. Each cubic yard stacked on top of another would create a column 66 miles high
- King truss main support beam weighs 621 tons - equivalent weight is 3-4 blue whales or 69 African elephants
- Seats 21,000, plus general authorities and Tabernacle Choir in main auditorium, with three levels of seating; 1,000 seat theater for theatrical performances previously housed in the Promised Valley Playhouse.
- State-of-the-art sound system designed to project both voice and music
- Digital, high-definition broadcast equipment
- Capability for up to 60 simultaneous language translations
- Rooftop gardens include a three-acre "meadow" and a fountain to spill down the side of the building.
- Design architect: Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Partnership of Portland, Ore.; local architect was Gilles Stransky Breams Smith
- Construction work still remains. The organ, being constructed in San Francisco, has yet to be installed, and the 1,000 seat theater has yet to be finished. A four-acre landscaped area on the roof, including a 3-acre "meadow," and the massive fountain to flow down the side of the building are also under construction.
- Scheduled to be dedicated October 2000
- Ground broken July 24, 1997, completion scheduled sometime this year
