Five years later, after mobs, fires, and a cyclone left the temple in ruins, Johnson turned west ... When we heard the announcement that the Nauvoo Temple was to be rebuilt, we knew we should ...

The towering temple was the last bit of Nauvoo the departing Mormons saw. The temple was eventually burned.* This year the church is opening a new Nauvoo Temple on the same site as the original.

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. Other attractions, including the home and grave ...

Nauvoo “lost its sovereignty last night because Utah will always control it,” said Irene Tukuafu, a Latter-day Saint temple worker in the town. “Nauvoo has become a colony of Salt Lake City.” ...

In the three-state region around Nauvoo, fundamentalist churches have prepared their flocks for what they see as an army of Mormon invaders who will attend the temple's open house beginning May 6.

In Mormon memory, Nauvoo stands for the first full blossom of the temple-based religion that now claims more than 10 million members. Founder and first prophet Joseph Smith Jr. already had ...

On the one hand, Nauvoo, where the Mormons sought shelter after fleeing Ohio and Missouri, was yet another place where the church came to grief. Aggrieved by the Mormons’ political machinations ...

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints conducted the symbolic laying of the cornerstones at the Nauvoo Temple Sunday, Nov. 5, at noon in Nauvoo, Ill. General authorities of the LDS Church ...

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has bought a cherished piece of its history: the Kirtland Temple. On Tuesday afternoon, the Salt Lake City-based faith announced the purchase of the ...

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. Other attractions, including the home and grave ...