A dispute erupts in Nauvoo between and among Latter-day Saints and their neighbors over the LDS Church's plans to build a visitor center on temple hill.

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 ...

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 ...

They stop work on the Nauvoo House and prioritize work on the temple, and the Nauvoo House is never finished. In 1871, Emma Smith’s second husband, Lewis Bidamon, ...

The 65,000-square-foot Nauvoo Temple is shown in this Feb. 27, 2002, file photo in Nauvoo, Ill. Seth Perlman / AP Nov. 9, 2006, 12:55 PM EST / Source : The Associated Press ...

Also in the collection is a Nauvoo temple handkerchief and a fragment from the original temple. The museum is open 12 to 4 p.m. Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. Tags ...

By Julene Thompson. 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.

LDS Church buys the Kirtland Temple, historic Nauvoo buildings and artifacts for $192M The structures will reopen to the public March 25. (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) The ...

Mormons fleeing persecution in Missouri arrived in Nauvoo in 1839. Work on a temple began in 1841, and the town soon expanded to about 20,000 people, exceeding Chicago at the time.

The city of Nauvoo, Illinois, with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Nauvoo Illinois Temple, center, and the Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic Church, left, is seen from across the ...

Lion House rolls — beloved by Latter-day Saints and beyond — are available once again, with the reopening of the Garden ...