Gilgal Garden

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This garden is hidden in a residential block in downtown Salt Lake City.  The garden was originally a backyard obsession of Thomas B. Child, Jr., a stonemason with no formal art training.  He was a devout Mormon who built this as a monument to his religious beliefs.  The garden features twelve original sculptures arranged in a rough circle.  There are more than seventy stones inscribed with poems and scriptures.  Gilgal is named for a biblical settlement along the River Jordan, and means "circle of stones."  It is well worth the hunt to find it, and we loved wandering through the garden, reading the many inscriptions.