Sandy Tithing Office

Built in 1906, the Sandy Tithing Office is one of 28 well-preserved buildings in Utah that were part of the successful in kind tithing system of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints during the 1850s-1910s. Tithing offices were a vital part of almost every Mormon community, serving as local centers of trade, welfare assistance, and economic activities, and they were important as the basic units of the church-wide tithing network centered in Salt Lake City. Bishop William D. Kuhre received permission from the church to build this office and use $2,000 in tithes for its construction. Its design was one of at least two standard plans developed at church headquarters around 1905, perhaps the first examples of what later became a church policy of developing standard plans rather than having each ward create its own. Other tithing offices with the same basic design stand in Manti, Richmond, Panguitch, and Hyrum.

Sandy, Utah · United States