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Columbia, Missouri got a stake in 1970, the Independence Stake was split from the Kansas City stake in 1971 and a stake was organized in Springfield in 1973. The first LDS temple in Missouri was dedicated by Gordon B. Hinckley in the St. Louis area in 1997.
In the early 1830s, an influx of members of the Church of Christ (Latter Day Saint), then headquartered in Kirtland, Ohio, began settling in Jackson County, Missouri. According to Mormon belief, Independence, Missouri and the surrounding area were to become the "City of Zion", and Mormon leadership in Missouri was directed to make extensive ...
The Temple in Independence, Missouri, is a house of worship and education "dedicated to the pursuit of peace". [1] It dominates the skyline of Independence and has become the focal point of the headquarters of the Community of Christ (formerly the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints). [2]
Lilburn Boggs, Governor of Missouri during the Mormon War, lived in Independence prior to that conflict. Boggs was widely perceived as a vehement "anti-Mormon", having issued his "extermination order" in the fall of 1838, and the Latter Day Saints blamed him for much of the difficulties and sorrows they had been forced to endure. Following the ...
In June 1832, W.W. Phelps, Mormon convert and a former editor from New York, moved to Independence, and set up operation of a printing press, establishing The Evening and the Morning Star, a monthly Mormon newspaper. Independence resident Josiah Gregg recalled: "in proportion as [the Mormons] grew strong in numbers, they also became more ...
The church currently occupies a property in Independence, Missouri, known as the Temple Lot. This grassy, 2-acre (8,100 m 2) plot is considered by Latter Day Saints of nearly all persuasions to be the site designated by Joseph Smith for the temple of the New Jerusalem, a sacred city to be built preparatory to the Second Coming of Jesus Christ ...
Moved headquarters to Independence, Missouri in 1928. Erle Whiting: 1876–1958 October 4, 1955 June 18, 1958 His succession led to short-lived schism under Clyde Fletcher. Rupert Fletcher: 1896–1974 June 18, 1958 November 22, 1974 Authored Alpheus Cutler and The Church of Jesus Christ, a compendium of history and doctrine. Julian Whiting ...
Smith first visited Independence in the summer of 1831, and a site was dedicated for the construction of the temple. Soon afterward, Mormon converts—most of them from the New England area—began immigrating in large numbers to Independence and the surrounding area.