The cornerstone-laying ceremony was repeated on a smaller scale from the one conducted at the original Nauvoo temple 159 years ago, said David R. Watson, spokesman for the LDS Church.

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.

The faith’s first important piece was the Kirtland Temple, the second was the Nauvoo Temple, and “the greatest work of art ever produced by Mormon hands is the Salt Lake Temple,” he told the ...

George and Suzanne Hampton head to work in high-visibility vests, sturdy shoes and with an ever-present camera.

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 ...

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 ...

James Pace helped build the Nauvoo temple before he journeyed west with his family. They settled the city of Payson with two other families. Local artist celebrates pioneers through art in Payson ...

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… ...

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 hav… ...

For more than 150 years, the world headquarters of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, commonly known as the Mormon Church, has been located in Salt Lake City, Utah. But for the ...