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 felt the ...

NAUVOO – The angel Moroni is replaced on the Nauvoo temple after a lightning bolt struck it. They needed to replace Moroni and so closed the temple. The Nauvoo temple, the first fully operating temple ...

A statue of Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum stands outside the Carthage Jail where the two were killed in 1844. The historic jail is still open for tours. Journal-Pilot file photo Editor’s note: ...

NAUVOO, Ill. — Chandler Whipple recently logged his third 1,000-mile drive from Salt Lake City to this tiny, out-of-the-way town overlooking the Mississippi River, where history and faith have forged ...

For one Casselton, N.D., man, a trip to see the rebuilt Nauvoo Illinois Temple brought him closer to his family roots. Todd Hendrickson, bishop of Fargo's Second Ward of the Church of Jesus Christ of ...

NAUVOO, Ill. — A project proposed by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints wants to add a visitors center to complement the Nauvoo Temple. The church’s plans call for building the center in ...

Editor’s note: This article is published through the Utah News Collaborative, a partnership of news organizations in Utah that aims to inform readers across the state. The Church of Jesus Christ of ...

(RNS) — A new history of the Mormons' brief residency in Illinois in the 1840s shows how democracy has been neither assured nor safe for minority groups in America. (RNS) — Benjamin Park, an historian ...