Nauvoo, another city that is important to adherents of the LDS faith, is located in Illinois ... the divinely envisioned purposes for our Temple in Independence, Missouri." ...

from the Independence, Mo.-based Community of Christ ... only a blip on the financial ledgers of the 17 million-member LDS Church, whose total wealth has been estimated at $265 billion.

INDEPENDENCE, Ohio -- A new temple for the Church of Jesus Christ ... to as the Mormons after a key religious text, the Book of Mormon. The state has strong ties to the church’s history.

A global church that traces its roots to Mormon prophet Joseph Smith Jr. is poised to select a woman to lead it next weekend.

This is the latest and final book in the religion’s official history, and it tells the story of the LDS Church from 1955 ... to the Salt Lake Valley from Independence and Nauvoo.