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When the Prophet Joseph Smith announced to Church members his plans to build a temple in Nauvoo, some may have wondered whether such construction was possible. In 1841 most Church members were poor, having lost most of their property when they were chased from Missouri only a year earlier.
This episode explains how the murder of Joseph and Hyrum Smith coupled with hostility toward the Saints affected the construction and dedication of the Nauvoo Temple and forced the Saints to prepare to leave the city—possibly even the country.
A monument to Joseph and Hyrum Smith, entitled Last Ride, is in front of the Nauvoo Illinois Temple. Followers of the Latter Day Saint movement began to move into Hancock County, Illinois, in 1839; at the time, most supported the Democratic Party.
In the same month that Illinois granted Nauvoo its charter, Joseph Smith published a revelation. Among other things, that revelation promised that this new temple would be different than the House of the Lord in Kirtland, that in the Nauvoo Temple, God would restore “the fulness of the priesthood.”.
The Nauvoo Temple was designed in the Greek Revival style by architect William Weeks, under the direction of Joseph Smith. Weeks's design made use of distinctively Latter Day Saint motifs, including sunstones, moonstones, and starstones.
The Nauvoo Temple is one of two latter-day temples to have been destroyed and rebuilt. (The other is the Apia Samoa Temple.) The practice of baptisms for the dead was restored in this dispensation through the Prophet Joseph Smith in Nauvoo. Such baptisms were first performed in the Mississippi River until the baptismal font of the Nauvoo Temple ...
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The Nauvoo Temple. Image. The Nauvoo Temple: A Joseph Smith Papers Podcast is an eight-part miniseries from the Joseph Smith Papers Project that explores the history of the Nauvoo Temple. Episode 1: A New City, a New Temple. Episode 2: Revelations, Designes, and Quarries. Episode 3: A Welding Link. Episode 4: Obstacles.
