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 ...

The Nauvoo Temple holds special significance for Mormons, who were forced to abandon the original shortly after it was completed when neighbors drove them from Nauvoo in 1846. Within a few years ...

Iowa's temple will be built on a 19.6 ... on the 1,300-mile route Mormons used to flee Nauvoo, Illinois, to the Great Salt Lake Valley in 1846, according to the National Park Service.

"Church members here in Iowa have long wanted a temple," Sims said ... mile route Mormons used to flee Nauvoo, Illinois, to the Great Salt Lake Valley in 1846, according to the National Park ...

(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 ...

Now in February, 1846, it was fallen — that ... to the roofs of Nauvoo, to the edifice that dominated the city, the temple reared to the Lord God Jehovah. And with iron, with copper, and with ...

The city of Nauvoo grew to include an estimated 15,000 ... delayed departure until the summer of 1846. To regroup and restock them, two villages were established in Iowa near today’s Lamoni ...

first in the Red Brick Store and later in the unfinished Nauvoo Temple. Also, the Relief Society was organized in the Red Brick Store in 1842. Members of the Church left Nauvoo in 1846. During the ...

NAUVOO, Ill ... Construction of the original temple began in 1841. The structure was dedicated in 1846, but two years later, an arsonist set it on fire, and two years after that, a tornado ...

which expressed regret for the state-sanctioned condemnation that caused the Mormons to be expelled from Illinois in 1846. Today, Nauvoo is a religiously significant site to the Mormon Church and ...

Here, too, the church suffered its darkest moments of persecution. Built between 1841 and 1846, the Nauvoo temple was completed a year after Smith had been murdered by an angry mob and dedicated ...

The Temple District of Nauvoo — the area near and inclusive of the Nauvoo Temple, which was first completed in 1846 and rebuilt in 2002 — was dedicated on Saturday, May 29, 20 ...