Mormon pioneers first commemorated this new beginning in The celebration took place near the spot that Young had recently designated as the site of a future temple, the holiest place in Mormondom. The observance consisted of a procession which led Brigham Young from his home to a bowery on Temple Square to which members of the nearly twenty local LDS congregations had marched earlier that morning behind their respective bishops.
Under the bowery, Young presided over a devotional full of both religious reverence and zeal. The celebration ended with a thanksgiving feast for a bountiful harvest and the blessings of a merciful God.
Salt Lake City remains the center of this observance, but the founding of a Mormon homeland is annually commemorated throughout the Mormon Culture Region and elsewhere among LDS congregations. As is became established as a major Mormon tradition, Pioneer Day was celebrated as a birthday, an independence day, and a thanksgiving day for Mormons, as well as a foretaste of the celebration of the Saints that would usher in the millennium at the end of time.
During the celebrations, major social groups based on age, gender, marital status, occupation, residence, and ecclesiastical or civic position interacted in ways to ritually review the society's vitality and solidarity. Customary activities--including parades, devotionals, sporting events, feasts, dances, excursions, and reunions--also often served to remind the Saints of the religious foundations of their group identity.
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According to the Utah Division of State History, the first pioneer celebration in Utah was only two years after those pioneers arrived in the Salt Lake Valley. On that day in , members of 20 LDS congregations marched behind their church leaders to a site near the future Salt Lake Temple, where they had speeches, musical performances and a feast of thanksgiving. According to the state history division, tickets for the jubilee were 25 cents for adults and 10 cents for children.
The schedule included performances by choirs, a brass band and an organist as well as a recitation by poet and church leader Eliza R.
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