Historian David Howlett, a professor at Smith College and author of the book “Kirtland Temple: The Biography of a Shared Mormon Sacred Space,” said he received the news Monday from a Community ...

Joseph Smith’s writing desk from the Kirtland Temple. • Emma Smith’s walking stick. • The home of early Mormon leader Sidney Rigdon and wife Phebe. • Other homes that belonged to early ...

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints purchased the historic Kirtland Temple, the first LDS temple built, along with other historical buildings and artifacts, from the Community of ...

Visitors from around the world come to visit the village and the Kirtland Temple, considered a pilgrimage destination by the world’s 17 million LDS members. The Kirtland Temple’s original 1836 ...

Followers were led to Salt Lake City by Brigham Young, who succeeded Smith as LDS church leader. Historic Kirtland, in the valley below the Kirtland Temple, was established in 2002 with the $15 ...

And they are reassured by the Salt Lake City-based church’s plans for its recent purchase of Mormonism’s first temple, in Kirtland, Ohio. Grow added that another change has been “the ...

Church members originally proposed a log cabin temple for Kirtland, but Smith rejected that idea as “not good enough for our saviour,” according to John Rozier, a Mormon missionary from Idaho ...

announcing the purchase of the Kirtland Temple on Tuesday. The church, widely known as the Mormon church, bought the building as part of a transfer agreement with the Community of Christ (formerly ...

KIRTLAND, Ohio – When Joseph Smith arrived ... they had built the church’s first temple and organized a Mormon faith that today includes nearly 7 million people in the United States and ...

including the Kirtland Temple. Speaking at this year’s annual Mormon History Association conference (which, as fate would have it, took place in and near Kirtland), McKay, the church’s ...