Salt Lake County, Utah Utah Territory after traveling what settlers later called Emigration Canyon. Brigham Young, their leader, declared "This is the place" after seeing the valley. Compared to eastern regions, it seemed arid and unpromising to some of the migrants. Settlers used extensive irrigation to develop agriculture and the flourishing, self-sufficient city, known then as Great Salt Lake City. Thousands of Mormons joined them in the next several decades. The county was officially organized on January 31, 1850, with slightly more than 11,000 residents recorded. Mormon settlements were scattered across the valley and beyond. They relocated the territorial capital to Great Salt Lake
Holy Trinity Cathedral (Salt Lake City, Utah) 439 West 400 South and obtained a loan for construction. The first priest arrived from Greece in April. The first church building was dedicated on October 29, 1905, and named Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church. The church was a central element of Greek Town in the non-Mormon immigrant district of Salt Lake City and served Serbian and Russian immigrants in addition to Greeks. The community quickly outgrew the original church building and initiated plans for a new building around 1920. The original building was sold and the site of the current Holy Trinity Cathedral, at Third South and Second West,