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Originally Posted by SeattleUte
If anything, I'd say the LDS Church is too pedestrian, cookie cutter, fixated on the practical, unimaginitive, and cheap in its buildings. They are for the most part ugly, in a word. One of Catholicism's great contributions to our civilizatoin has been an indellible aesthetic legacy and sensibility still rife even in popular culture such as Harry Potter. Perhaps more important than helping the poor is a religion's role of making our spirits soar with the grandeur of its symbolism and art. Even the Salt Lake temple is tiny and simple compared to many great European cathedrals and basilicas.
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If you look at the early LDS temples and meetinghouses, many of them have very interesting architectural features. However, in the interest of time and money, they went to the cookie cutter approach given the sheer magnitude of the building program the church has to deal with.