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 ...

KEY TAKEAWAYS Salt Lake Temple renovations include two new baptismal fonts, which are nearing completion. Seismic upgrades, landscape changes and interior updates aim to preserve historic elements.

First Latter-day Saint temple with 2 baptismal fonts opens for tours ahead of June dedication By Emily Ashcraft, KSL.com | Posted - May 7, 2025 at 10:32 p.m.

The human feces was placed the baptismal font on the afternoon of Feb. 12. A woman who answered the phone at the church Wednesday referred questions about the incident to the Archdiocese of Newark.

NAUVOO, Ill. (AP) -- The Mormon church kicked off a four-day dedication of a reconstruction of its most historically important temple Thursday with the first in a series of services ...

The font was not only dirty—the once golden bronze was looking almost black—but actually unstable. Now, after a three-year restoration in both Siena and Florence, the reassembled font will be ...

The baptismal font belonged to a church and also dates from the oldest decades of the Stiftsberg's medieval history in the Ottonian period, about which little is known so far.

Home / News / Faith / LDS Church buys Kirtland Temple, historic Nauvoo buildings LDS Church buys Kirtland Temple, historic Nauvoo buildings The structures will reopen to the public March 25.

Nauvoo “lost its sovereignty last night because Utah will always control it,” said Irene Tukuafu, a Latter-day Saint temple worker in the town. “Nauvoo has become a colony of Salt Lake City.” ...

NAUVOO, Ill. — A project proposed by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints wants to add a visitors center to complement the Nauvoo Temple.

The Nauvoo Temple’s baptismal font in the building’s basement was dedicated in November 1841 and used before the temple was completed. The temple’s attic was completed in November 1845 and dedicated ...

Construction of the original Nauvoo Temple began in the spring of 1841 on a hilltop overlooking the Mississippi River. Early Latter-day Saints labored to build the temple, completing the sacred ...