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What to Expect When You Visit the Church’s Historic Sites in Missouri.
The Church’s four main sites in Missouri—the Independence Visitors’ Center, Historic Liberty Jail, Far West Temple Site, and Adam-ondi-Ahman—are within about 90 miles (145 kilometers) of each other and are open all year.
15 mar 2018 · Interactive Map: LDS Places of Interest, Missouri (1831–1839) Home. Church History. Publications. Saints: The Story of the Church of Jesus Christ in the Latter Days. Prophets of the Restoration. Global Histories. Revelations in Context. Women of Conviction.
Missouri—Church History Sites. Grid View. List View. A Replica of Liberty Jail. Adam-ondi-Ahman. Adam-ondi-Ahman Trail. Far West Temple Site. Liberty Jail.
There were many Mormons in Missouri and it served as one of the headquarters of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the 1830s. In 1838, Lilburn W. Boggs issued the Extermination Order to drive Mormons from the state, and for a time there was no organized Church presence here.
Today, multiple churches that claim Joseph Smith as their founder consider sites associated with the Saints’ early efforts to build Zion as sacred spaces. Church Resources “ Independence Visitors’ Center, Missouri ,” history.lds.org .
Far West was a settlement of the Latter Day Saint movement in Caldwell County, Missouri, United States, during the late 1830s. It is recognized as a historic site by the U.S. National Register of Historic Places, added to the register in 1970. It is owned and maintained by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
