(RNS) — In a stunning announcement Tuesday afternoon (March 5), Community of Christ — a Midwestern denomination that traces its founding to Mormon ... sold the Kirtland, Ohio, temple that ...

CLEVELAND, Dec. 21.--For years and years the old Mormon Telmple at Kirtland, a little town lying near Mentor and Painesville, has stood silent and tenantless. Word now comes that the ancient ...

On Tuesday afternoon, the Salt Lake City-based faith announced the purchase of the valuable Ohio ... from the Kirtland Temple. • Emma Smith’s walking stick. • The home of early Mormon ...

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Church members originally proposed a log cabin temple for Kirtland, but Smith rejected that idea as “not good enough for our saviour,” according to John Rozier, a Mormon missionary from Idaho ...

And they are reassured by the Salt Lake City-based church’s plans for its recent purchase of Mormonism’s first temple, in Kirtland, Ohio. On this week’s show, Matthew Grow, managing director ...

KIRTLAND, Ohio — The Church of Jesus ... announcing the purchase of the Kirtland Temple on Tuesday. The church, widely known as the Mormon church, bought the building as part of a transfer ...

SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — For the first time since the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints bought it, the historic Kirtland Temple in Ohio has reopened ... month, the LDS Church purchased ...

Located in Ohio, the Kirtland Temple was the first temple built by early pioneers in the LDS church and was dedicated in 1836. Buildings included in the transaction included the Smith family ...

Chief among these properties was the Kirtland Temple ... Ohio before continuing their westward migration. After announcement of the sale, many people raised questions about what changes the LDS ...

KIRTLAND, Ohio – When Joseph Smith arrived in ... they had built the church’s first temple and organized a Mormon faith that today includes nearly 7 million people in the United States and ...