Religious Groups Share Beliefs Through Music, Dance

On Sunday, March 17, 2024, hundreds gathered to watch performances from several different religious backgrounds at the Salt Lake Tabernacle of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

“Sacred Music Evening: Many Faiths, One Family” is sponsored by the Salt Lake Interfaith Roundtable, which “envisions a community and world where people of diverse faiths, cultures and belief systems enjoy mutual respect, understanding, appreciation, acceptance, harmony and love.”

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This year’s event featured performances from the Hilltop Gospel Choir, the Khemera Dance Troupe (Cambodian Buddhists), Desert Wind (Jewish), Tee-opa-shaw (Sioux), the Rajasthani Folk Dance Group, Salt Lake Chinese Dance Art, the Salt Lake Children’s Choir, the Utah Pipe Band, and the combined choirs from the Church’s Ensign College and Jordan and Taylorsville Institutes of Religion.

The meeting opened with a Muslim call to prayer by Coskun Kariparduc of Emerald Hills Institute, a Jewish shofar devotion by Sara Lambrinos and Rabbi Alan Scott Bachman, and an invocation from Pritpal Singh of Utah’s Sikh community. The benediction was offered by Imam Shuaib Din of the Utah Islamic Center.