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 ...

FAIRVIEW — One of the original stone blocks carved by stonemasons and used in the building of the original Nauvoo LDS Temple in Nauvoo, IL; is on display in the Fairview Museum of History and Art, 84 ...

NAUVOO, Ill. (AP) -- The Mormon church kicked off a four-day dedication of a reconstruction of its most historically important temple Thursday with the first in a series of services intended to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 temple ...

A statue of Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum stands outside the Carthage Jail where the two were killed in 1844. The historic jail is still open for tours. Journal-Pilot file photo Editor’s note: ...

NAUVOO, Ill. -- Heavy morning rains didn't discourage visitors eager to see the rebuilt Mormon temple in Nauvoo from attending the first day of an almost two-month open house Monday. Officials from ...

NAUVOO, Ill. — A project proposed by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints wants to add a visitors center to complement the Nauvoo Temple. The church’s plans call for building the center in ...

In a chamber packed with Latter-day Saint supporters, Nauvoo’s six-member City Council voted unanimously Tuesday night to approve the building of a Latter-day Saint visitors center adjacent to the ...

Historian Benjamin Park, an assistant professor of history at Sam Houston State University, has written a compelling and accessible history of Mormonism in the 1840s. “Kingdom of Nauvoo: The Rise and ...