Edge Rewrite
// HTMLRewriter · presentation

This page was redesigned at the edge.

Cloudflare fetched the original article and streamed it through HTMLRewriter to apply an entirely new visual system without rebuilding the source page.

Jump to content

Music Temple

Music Temple is a geological feature near the Colorado River in Glen Canyon, southern Utah, on the Navajo Nation, United States, which consists of a grotto with high, vaulting walls and a deep central pool of water.

It was named by John Wesley Powell in 1869 because of its unusual acoustic properties: reportedly, a one-second note would reverberate for eleven seconds. It was considered one of the more beautiful natural formations of the area in the late 19th century and into the mid-20th century.

Music Temple is within the area that was inundated by Lake Powell, formed by the construction of Glen Canyon Dam. It was submerged by the mid-1960s as the lake filled. As the lake declined in contents over due to a long term drought, the feature is partially exposed.

Sources

[edit]

37°09′46″N 110°55′25″W / 37.16278°N 110.92361°W / 37.16278; -110.92361