Church for sale: City leaders consider saving building

(Daily Herald) Churches are not often seen with "For Sale" signs in front of them, but at 2600 N. 900 West in Pleasant Grove, the Manila church building has one, and many residents are nervous about its fate.

"It has come to our attention that the owner is looking to sell," City Administrator Scott Darrington said at Tuesday's City Council meeting. "Are we interested in purchasing it? Is there something historical we need to protect?"

"The old white church," as some people call it, was at one time a chapel for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The first church congregation met there in 1896 and the last meeting was in 2007, when a newly built LDS Church building was ready for use approximately a half mile away.

At that time, a group of citizens organized themselves to save the church, according to City Councilwoman Cindy Boyd.

"We wrote to the church to ask them not to tear it down," she said.

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