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Lights. Camera. Prayer. A mini-Hollywood grows in Utah.

Provo • In the heavy quiet of the Utah desert, past fields of alfalfa and fruit trees, past the Goshen trailer park and a big, sprawling dairy farm, the domes of Jerusalem rise up from the patchy grass.

Set way back from the road, this maze of open-air passageways and courtyards is about the size of two football fields, an unusual vision of limestone bumping up against the Utah Rockies. It has played host to Mary and Joseph, John the Baptist and Jesus — as well as Lehi, Amulek and Alma the Younger.

(Kim Raff | The New York Times) A sign on the way to the Jerusalem film set, which can also stand in for Bethlehem or other locations, at a film studio owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, where the u201cBook of Mormon Videosu201d are filmed, in Goshen, Utah, Sept. 4, 2019. Movies made by the church are an important part of a film and TV ecosystem in northern Utah u2014 and thereu2019s not an R-rating in sight.
(Kim Raff | The New York Times) A sign on the way to the Jerusalem film set, which can also stand in for Bethlehem or other locations, at a film studio owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, where the “Book of Mormon Videos” are filmed, in Goshen, Utah, Sept.