Friday, May 17, 2013

Why Is This 112-Year-Old Church Floating in the Air?

Art installation? Trick photography? Nope, just a little restoration project going on at Utah's Provo Temple, which was badly damaged in a fire in 2010. Thankfully, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) is salvaging the 112-year-old building with a little architectural levitation.

Engineers gutted the ruined interior, and lifted the structure onto scaffolding about 40 feet in the air in order to save the facade and add a two-story basement below. The old church didn't have to be moved at all. It appears to be floating, but there's no religious trickery going on?just a pretty amazing feat of engineering. [ThisIsColossal]

Image credits: Brian Hansen, LDS Newsroom

Source: http://gizmodo.com/why-is-this-112-year-old-church-floating-in-the-air-508258626

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