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Originally Posted by Jbs2763
basketball/vollyball are pretty much the only sports that can be played year round indoors with limited space, and i have seen softball diamonds at stake centers in UT, (and at the adjacent YMCA for the indy south stake) but basketball is relativly safe, pretty much everyone can play......
and they dont rival HS gyms in Indiana....one of the school in my area has an 18,000 seat arena for basketball, and it was used in the movie blue chips.... my high school was much smaller, (only 115 in my graduating class) our gym would only seat about 8,000
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I've never seen an LDS church with stadium seating, but the court itself is often as good as any high school or even college basketball court. The stake center in Pueblo, CO has a full sized hardwood court that's at least as good as the court on my college campus in Colorado Springs - minus the bleachers.
Pam: a lot of stake centers are just old chapels that have been designated as stake centers. I think very rarely does the church invest in building a new chapel specifically as a stake center when a new stake is formed. I think when they organize a stake they choose which existing building will be the stake center based on features such as a stage or the size of the gym (for stake conferences).