Showing posts with label Bountiful 4th Ward. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bountiful 4th Ward. Show all posts

Sunday, October 5, 2025

Bountiful 4th Ward: Interior & Painting

 The interior of this building is fairly typical. The chapel has natural light on both sides and a simple design in the ceiling. The most notable feature is a large mural behind the pulpit.


The painting, done by W. Dean Belnap, is a reproduction of Christ with the Fishermen, by Ernst Zimmerman. Reproductions of famous paintings of Christ were very common in Latter-day Saint (and general Christian) art, beginning in the 1800s. 

W. Dean Belnap was a resident of Bountiful for most of his adult life, and was age 26 when the chapel was dedicated, although it's unknown if the painting was installed sometime after the chapel was dedicated. 

Sunday, September 28, 2025

Bountiful 4th Ward

Built in the early 1950s and dedicated in 1952 by (at the time, Presiding Bishop) LeGrand Richards, the Bountiful 4th Ward is a fairly typical postwar Church building. However, it has some nice artwork in the chapel that I was able to document and will show in my next post.