‘Independence, Missouri is an important place ... trace their roots back to Smith. ‘The word Mormon was never officially the name of the church. It was originally a nickname because the ...

2019-01-20T15:47:09-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/96b/20190120154913003_hd.jpgIndependence, Missouri, is a sacred spot for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter ...

Records show nearly 20,000 acres of church land in Missouri is agricultural, with notably large contiguous parcels of farmland northwest of Independence along the Missouri River. For most ...

Missouri Governor Lilburn Boggs, incensed after learning of the Mormon incursion and the ... is located somewhere in Jackson County. Temple Lot in Independence is now the headquarters for several ...

Church of Latter-day Saints (LDS) Elder George Peterson explained the migration of Mormons to Independence, MO and the subsequent migrations to Illinois and Utah. Church of Latter-day Saints (LDS ...

INDEPENDENCE, Mo. — In 1831, Mormon founder Joseph Smith ... more than triple the number of just three decades ago. Most recently, the LDS church has built a temple in Kansas City, Mo., ...

Independence, Mo. • There is an open patch of grass at ... Olsen, senior curator for historic sites for the LDS Church and a seventh-generation Mormon. “I think we have gotten over that ...

In 1831, Mormon leader Joseph Smith chose the grounds for a temple in Independence, MO. Nearly a century later, construction began there on the Reorganized Church of Latter Day Saints Auditorium.

The new temple will represent a landmark event in the western Missouri history of the Mormon Church ... with its headquarters in Independence, has about 250,000 members. Information about open ...

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