"For Latter-day Saints, some of the really sacred things about the Kirtland Temple happened on that top floor, where Joseph Smith sees a vision of the afterlife and sees his brother, Alvin ...

Ownership of the Kirtland Temple became an issue almost from the start. The title was broken more than once in the 1830s, Spencer McBride said in a Joseph Smith Papers Project podcast.

Church members originally proposed a log cabin temple for Kirtland ... who was leading tours of Historic Kirtland on a recent Thursday. Smith had a vision of the building, and his brother ...

KIRTLAND, Ohio – When Joseph Smith arrived in Kirtland with ... a two-story wood frame building located on Ohio 306 near the Kirtland Temple, was Smith’s home from 1833 to 1838, when he ...

“It’s a place where [Joseph Smith] received the vast majority of the revelations that are in the Doctrine and Covenants. The Kirtland Temple has been a special place because the church had to ...

“Some of the really sacred things about the Kirtland Temple happened on that top floor,” Grow said. “It was where Joseph Smith sees a vision of the afterlife and sees his [deceased ...

KIRTLAND, Ohio, April 10.--Joseph Smith, Jr., the son of the celebrated Mormon prophet, gave polygamy a black eye to-day. He said he had been reviled and slandered at the great Mormon conference ...

The Reorganized Church — which became the Community of Christ in 2001 — obtained the Kirtland Temple through Joseph Smith’s son. Joseph Smith III bought the temple through a quit-claim deed ...

"Joseph [Smith] III conveyed Kirtland Temple to us. The Nauvoo properties are the Smith family properties. The paintings came from the Smith family; the New Translation manuscripts came from the ...

(RNS) — In a stunning announcement Tuesday afternoon (March 5), Community of Christ — a Midwestern denomination that traces its founding to Mormon prophet Joseph Smith Jr. — said it has sold ...

The 59th annual conference will take place in Kirtland, Ohio, the former headquarters of early followers of church founder Joseph Smith ... I think about” the temple changing hands.