That legacy draws thousands of Mormons to Nauvoo every year, sometimes in groups of 100 or more, along with busloads of non-Mormons lured by the area's rich history, which also includes Illinois ...

Within eight years of settling in Nauvoo, the number of residents had grown to nearly 12,000. About $1 million was raised for construction of a temple, which started in 1841 and completed in 1846.

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 ...

For a few years in the 1840's, tiny Nauvoo, Illinois, was the center of the Mormon world. Roughly 12,000 Mormons settled here after being driven out of communities in Ohio and Missouri. Church ...

‘Mormon Land’: Theocracy, secret polygamy, female dissent, and Nauvoo’s place in the nation’s past and a religion’s present (Photo courtesy Utah State Historical Society) Nauvoo, Illinois.

NAUVOO, Ill. (AP) -- Mormon church leaders opened a plush reconstruction of their historic holy sanctuary Wednesday, more than 150 years after the original temple was destroyed.

Less than two years after President Gordon B. Hinckley broke ground for the rebuilding of the Nauvoo, Illinois, temple on October 24, 1999, the temple is nearing its expected Spring of 2002 ...

In “Kingdom of Nauvoo,” historian Benjamin E. Park takes advantage of information kept secret in church records for 150 years and insightfully re-creates the story of their Midwestern sojourn and ...

Made in 1841, this plate commemorates the construction of a temple built in Nauvoo, Illinois by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. The temple design was based on visions experienced by ...