Gilgal Sculpture Garden

Located at 749 east 500 south in salt lake city gilgal sculpture garden was envisioned designed and created by thomas battersby child jr.

Gilgal sculpture garden. The website is correct in saying that tucked in the middle of the block behind houses and businesses many are still unaware of its existence and enjoy a true sense of discovery when they visit the garden for the first time. The most famous of these is the sphinx with its unhewn stones arranged to suggest a. Hidden away at the center of a block behind houses and businesses it contains. 1888 1963 in his spare time.

The garden contains twelve original sculptural arrangements and over 70 stones engraved with scriptures poems and philosophical texts. There is no admission charge. Gilgal sculpture garden contains 12 original sculptures and over 70 stones engraved with scriptures poems and literary texts. Gilgal sculpture garden is a really beautiful garden alongside of being home to some weird af sculptures and is now a salt lake city park.

The salt lake county master gardener association volunteers its master gardeners to maintain the very impressive garden portion of the park. Tucked in the middle of the block behind houses and businesses. Friends of gilgal garden owns and manages the park. In the mid twentieth century.

Formerly the secret garden of salt lake gilgal sculpture garden is now a public city park open daily for the enjoyment bewilderment and sheer horror of all. I heard about it listenting to an interview of radio west. As a whole gilgal sculpture garden is significant as the only identified visionary art environment in utah. Tucked away in the center of a city block gilgal sculpture garden is a magical urban oasis and a unique work of art.

Salt lake city s gilgal sculpture garden is the first utah site to enter the distinctive destinations program of the national trust for historic preservation a officials announced this week. Gilgal garden is a wondrous little patch of land created by thomas battersby child jr. He called his backyard art project gilgal garden and by the time he was finished it would include 14 acetylene carved sculptures made of stone found from across the state and over 70 inscriptions from mostly christian texts. In 1947 thomas battersby child retired as a stone mason and began construction on what would become one of salt lake city s jewels.

The gilgal sculpture garden is a small public city park located at 749 east 500 south in salt lake city utah united states the park which is filled with unusual symbolic statuary associated with mormonism notably to the sphinx with joseph smith s head was a labor of love designed and created by lds businessman thomas battersby child jr.