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.

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

Lucinda and James Pace were early converts to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. James Pace helped build the Nauvoo temple before he journeyed west with his family. They settled the ...

According to Leonard, in the original Nauvoo Temple cornerstone ceremony, different priesthood authorities, as designated by the president of the church, place the stones.

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 ...

Why, at age 90, historian Richard Bushman frames art as ‘essential’ to the Latter-day Saint story He points to the Salt Lake Temple as the “greatest work of art ever produced by Mormon hands.” ...

The lavish temple, with a tower and spire 165 feet high, has fueled a fivefold tourism jump in Nauvoo, said Kim Farah, a church spokeswoman in Utah.

NAUVOO, ILL. -- An open house for the new Nauvoo Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, located in Nauvoo, will be held for the public until June 22, excluding Sundays.

The original Mormon temple in Nauvoo, Ill., seen in an 1846 photo. Arsonists torched the building in 1848.

Until construction of the Nauvoo Temple, the 13,000 Mormons in a region stretching from Iowa to Indiana had to go to St. Louis, Missouri, Louisville, Kentucky, or Chicago to visit a temple.

In Mormon memory, Nauvoo stands for the first full blossom of the temple-based religion that now claims more than 10 million members.