NAUVOO, Ill ... of church founder Smith and forcing Mormons west in 1846, eventually to found Salt Lake City. Their abandoned temple was desecrated by vandals, then gutted by an arson fire ...

NAUVOO, Ill ... of church founder Smith and forcing Mormons west in 1846, eventually to found Salt Lake City. Their abandoned temple was desecrated by vandals, then gutted by an arson fire ...

In the early 1840s, Nauvoo, Ill., was a thriving city of 10,000 people. Most were members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, better known as the Mormon Church. Mormon President ...

(The first, in Kirtland, Ohio, was dedicated in 1836; the second, in Nauvoo, Ill., was dedicated in 1846. Both were abandoned as Latter-day Saints migrated west. A new temple on the site of the ...

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has bought a cherished piece of its history: the Kirtland Temple. On Tuesday afternoon, the Salt Lake City-based faith announced the purchase of the ...

but his assassination made it clear that the period of relative calm the Mormon faithful had enjoyed in Nauvoo, Illinois, was coming to an end. In 1845 mob violence against the Mormon community ...

NAUVOO – The angel Moroni is replaced on the Nauvoo temple after a lightning bolt struck it. They needed to replace Moroni and so closed the temple. The Nauvoo temple, the first fully operating ...