Tag: religious history

  • Community of Christ Temple and The Auditorium: Independence, Missouri

    Community of Christ Temple and The Auditorium: Independence, Missouri

    Independence, Missouri is the headquarters of the Community of Christ (formally known as the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints or “RLDS Church”). This religion traces its beginning to 1860 when Joseph Smith III agreed to take on leadership of the Church

  • Liberty Jail – Liberty, Missouri

    Liberty Jail – Liberty, Missouri

    Today in place of Liberty Jail the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints built a ‘Historic Liberty Jail Visitors’ Center’. A tour through the visitors’ center takes less than an hour as the guides inform you about Joseph Smith’s incarceration.

  • Kirtland Temple – Kirtland, Ohio

    Kirtland Temple – Kirtland, Ohio

    In the first few years of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, founder, Joseph Smith received instructions how to build a temple. That temple was to be built in Kirtland, Ohio. Built from sandstone. It also took years of labor but the temple was completed on March 27, 1836.

  • Newel K Whitney Store – Kirtland Ohio

    Newel K Whitney Store – Kirtland Ohio

    The N.K. Whitney & Co. became a temporary home for Joseph Smith and his family after they moved to Kirtland in the fall of 1832