The story of the Nauvoo Temple is one of faith, sacrifice, loss, and redemption. In 1839, Church members had begun gathering in Illinois after persecution ...
The church's first temple was completed in Kirtland, Ohio, United States, in 1836. When the main body of the church was forced out of Nauvoo, Illinois, in the ...
The Nauvoo Temple is the 2nd temple built by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which was destroyed by arson fire in 1848 and rebuilt in 2002.
Land for a new temple in Nauvoo was secured in 1840. Construction proceeded slowly for more than five years, and by the time most Saints left Illinois in 1846, ...