NAUVOO, Ill. — It was almost impossible for curious visitors getting their first peek inside the reconstructed Mormon Nauvoo Temple to resist the building’s tactile enticements. Hushed crowds felt the ...

As the sorrowing saints walked westward, George Washington Johnson was given six keys and a charge to watch over the Nauvoo Temple just weeks after its dedication in 1846. Five years later, after mobs ...

Chandler Whipple recently logged his third 1,000-mile drive from Salt Lake City to this tiny, out-of-the-way town overlooking the Mississippi River, where history and faith have forged one of Illinois ...

The leading attraction in this riverfront town of 1,200 is a meticulously landscaped, historically significant, theologically momentous hole in the ground. The rectangular depression, marked with a ...

Less than two years after President Gordon B. Hinckley broke ground for the rebuilding of the Nauvoo, Illinois, temple on October 24, 1999, the temple is nearing its expected Spring of 2002 completion ...

NAUVOO, Ill. — Sunday isn’t the best day to visit Nauvoo, unless you like being the only people milling about this Mississippi River city, known primarily as the place where Latter-day Saints prophet ...

NAUVOO, Ill. – Chandler Whipple recently logged his third 1,000-mile drive from Salt Lake City to this tiny, out-of-the-way town overlooking the Mississippi River, where history and faith have forged ...

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NAUVOO, Ill. (AP) -- Mormon church leaders opened a plush reconstruction of their historic holy sanctuary Wednesday, more than 150 years after the original temple was destroyed. It was here that ...

A fraught battle being waged in Nauvoo begins and ends at the gleaming temple atop a bluff, whose majestic views of the Mississippi River have been the marvel of many a visitor. The squabble in this ...

NAUVOO, Ill. — Chandler Whipple recently logged his third 1,000-mile drive from Salt Lake City to this tiny, out-of-the-way town overlooking the Mississippi River, where history and faith have forged ...