Threatening mobs forced the saints to leave their temple behind just weeks after its dedication in 1846. ... Two pictures of the Nauvoo Temple by local artist Chad Hawkins hang above the keys.

By Julene Thompson. As the sorrowing saints walked westward, George Washington Johnson was given six keys and a charge to watch over the Nauvoo Temple just weeks after its dedication in 1846.

The leading attraction in this riverfront town of 1,200 is a meticulously landscaped, historically significant, theologically momentous hole in the ground. The rectangular depression, marked with a… ...

The 65,000-square-foot Nauvoo Temple is shown in this Feb. 27, 2002, file photo in Nauvoo, Ill. Seth Perlman / AP Nov. 9, 2006, 12:55 PM EST / Source : The Associated Press ...

Gregg’s book describes early Nauvoo, before the building of the Mormon Temple, as a picturesque site on the east side of the Mississippi River, about 10 miles north of Keokuk, Iowa.

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 ...

In September 1846, the last of more than 12,000 residents of Nauvoo, Ill., were forced to leave their homes -- and the temple for which they had sacrificed so much since construction had commenced in ...

Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints may think they know all about Nauvoo, ... their faith’s headquarters from 1839 to 1846. ... they built their second temple. And ...

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 hav… ...

This temple for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints sits atop the bluff where the original temple stood, before being damaged by a fire and tornado in the late 1840s. It was razed in 1867.