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Over the objections of some residents and elected officials, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has won the long-winded fight to build a massive temple in Fairview, Texas, after the ...
Mormon Church officials revealed detailed renderings of planned improvements to Mesa's massive temple on Main Street. The temple will close May 20 for renovations and reopen two years from now.
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Plans for Jacksonville's first Mormon Temple are officially underway with a location chosen and rendering announced. The church announced plans for a 6.6-acre property at 3323 Loretto Road in ...
As a controversial 101-foot-tall LDS temple ... sized temple was built in Casper last summer, facing no opposition. That church was built in a commercial-type area with no residential housing anywhere ...
The ad, plastered on taxis, was for the Broadway play The Book of Mormon. Latter-day Saints ... and he denieth none that come unto him, black and white, bond and free, male and female; and ...
Grounded in Protestant biblical justifications of slavery and racial hierarchy, LDS authorities ... priesthood and temple ban. In his recent bestseller, “Second Class Saints: Black Mormons ...
Mormons were known to practice polygamy, or plural marriage as they put it in the early days of the church, and when Black men started taking white wives, that's when he started this priest and temple ...
What they came to see—retired army officers, shopkeepers, typical British families in holiday clothes—was a rectangular building faced with white Portland ... the first Mormon temple to ...
In 1852, Brigham Young—second prophet/president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints—implemented a ban on people of African descent holding the priesthood and accessing temple rituals, ...
No matter who enters the temple, they are expected to change into the white garb that’s associated with the religion in designated locker rooms located inside. It’s just one of a number of practices ...