The Beehive State hosts a wide range — geographically and chronologically — of edifices held sacred by Latter-day Saints ...

Utahns once ventured to the red-brick chapel near 100 South and 700 East to find God. Soon, they’ll be heading to the former Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ 12th Ward Chapel in ...

Mormon president Wilford Woodruff announced in a document known as "The Manifesto" that the church would renounce the practice of polygamy. Utah was admitted to the United States on January 4 ...

In accord with a new Utah law, the LDS Church and other faiths are cross-checking their youth volunteers against sex offender ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Personal records of hundreds of thousands of Australians are being copied and sent to a secretive mountain vault in Utah owned by ...

Although Joseph Smith was no pacifist—he preached an aggressive self-defense against the Mormon Church's many enemies ... The Compromise of 1850 made Utah a U.S. territory.

In a statement released Tuesday, church spokesperson Melissa McKneely announced that the Utah-based faith had officially submitted the new plan for a smaller McKinney Temple to Fairview ...

Turley Jr., assistant church historian and recorder of the LDS Church. Allan Kent Powell, managing editor of the Utah Historical Quarterly, notes that Abraham Lincoln warned, in 1858, that "a ...

Said a Mormon at Harvard, "Sunday by Sunday I go to service in the Appleton Chapel ... "Let Utah alone," says B. H. Roberts. "Polygamy will die of itself," says the Mormon church.

The research project, ‘Religion, Party Loyalty, and the Utah LDS Church’, focuses on the current political and religious developments in Utah. It tracks key themes relating to religious and political ...