Church Administration Building

The Church Administration Building is an administrative office building in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States serving as the headquarters of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the fourth-largest Christian denomination in the United States. Completed in 1917, the building is adjacent to Temple Square, between the Joseph Smith Memorial Building and the Lion House, on South Temple Drive. It differs from the Church Office Building in that it is much smaller and furnishes offices for the First Presidency and the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. It also houses offices for other general authorities and their personal staff.Only church officials and their guests are permitted to enter. The CAB has been used for meetings between church leaders and political and community leaders.Use and special eventsInitially, the Church Administration Building housed all administrative offices of the LDS Church, but as membership grew and leadership and staff expanded, the workers were scattered in office buildings throughout downtown Salt Lake City—some as far away as the Granite Mountain Vaults in Little Cottonwood Canyon and at Brigham Young University, 40mi to the south in Provo. With construction of the Church Office Building to the north, the Church Administration Building was freed up for offices exclusively for general authorities, and it continues to serve as the church's headquarters.