Front:
NAUVOO TEMPLE, REORGANIZED CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER DAY SAINTS
Back:
An architectural triumph, the Nauvoo temple was
begun in 1841, but its interior was never com-
pleted. Standing on the crest of the hill, it was
80 feet wide, 128 feet deep, and nearly 200 feet
high. Conforming to modern architectural ideals
its design was simple, having as its chief em-
bellishments stone cuttings of the sun, moon and
stars arranged as in the vision of the Apostle
John seeing the church clothed in the sun, stand-
ing upon the moon, and with a crown of stars
in her hair. The building was destroyed by fire
and storm. The Nauvoo temple is a page out of
the past, but the ideals of the church that built
it are still perpetuated by the church, the Reor-
ganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day
Saints.
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