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Replica pioneer home and Bishop's Storehouse to the left. Stirling Agricultural Village, Alberta. The Newel K. Whitney Store in Kirtland, Ohio. The concept of the bishop's storehouse is based on a revelation received by Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, on February 9, 1831, whereby he was instructed to keep goods "in my [the Lord's] storehouse, to administer to the poor ...
The Fairview Tithing Office/Bishop's Storehouse is a historic building in Fairview, Utah, United States. It was built with red bricks in 1908 as a tithing office and bishop's office for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. [2] The bishop at the time was James C. Peterson. [2]
Bishops can also provide "in kind" assistance in the form of food and household goods from the bishop's storehouse (which is managed by the Presiding Bishop [see below]). The bishop disburses funds, authorizes distribution of food from the bishop's storehouse, or provides other appropriate assistance after evaluating the needs of the family and ...
These are places where Mormons delivered tithes, often in form of agricultural products. There were at least 28 in Utah and at least one in Idaho, which functioned between 1850 and 1910 or so. These facilities served for church members to be able to collect, store, and distribute the farm products donated as tithing, for at the time ...
The Richmond Tithing Office, also known as Bishop's Storehouse, in Richmond, Utah, was built in 1907. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. [1] It is a one-story square red brick building with a pyramid roof, built upon a coursed ashlar foundation.
God's Storehouse operates a popular west Topeka thrift store that also houses a coffee shop, Judee's. The IRS first started investigating God's Storehouse in February 2021, following Kloos ...
Welfare Square was created in 1938, [2] under the direction of the Church's General Welfare Committee, which itself had been formed just two years earlier. [3] Throughout the 1930s and 1940s, as the United States was experiencing the Great Depression Welfare Square became the flagship of the Church's Welfare Program.
The Mesa Arizona Temple, one of three patterned after the Temple of Solomon. In 1832, shortly after the formation of the church, Joseph Smith said that the Lord desired the saints build a temple; [2] and they completed the Kirtland Temple in 1836.