ChurchofJesusChristTemples.org shares construction news, photographs, maps, and interesting facts about the temples of the restored Church of Jesus Christ. Prayer Roll Click here to submit names. Joseph! [178], In 1902, 25 years after his death, The New York Times established that Young's direct descendants numbered more than 1,000. Brigham City Utah Box Elder Stake. He also led the Anointed Quorum. Temple Health refers to the health, education and research activities carried out by the affiliates of Temple University Health System (TUHS) and by the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University. [89] Young organized the first Utah Territorial Legislature and established Fillmore as the territory's first capital. [91] It was established on February 28, 1850, as the University of Deseret; its name was eventually changed to the University of Utah. [37] He became the oldest member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles when David Patten died after the Battle of Crooked River. [51] While in Nauvoo, he married Clarissa Decker, Clarissa Ross, Emily Dow Partidge, Louisa Beaman, Margaret Maria Alley, Emmeline Free, Margaret Piece, and Zina Diantha Huntington. [Joseph Smith] was succeeded by one of the outstanding organizers of the 19th century, Brigham Young. As the competing rail lines approach Utah from the east and west coasts, Young supplies Mormon laborers to both railroad companies and negotiates with the railways to have them make Salt Lake City their meeting point. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will build 18 new houses of the Lord in the coming months and years. [176], Sources have varied on the number of Young's wives, as well as their ages. The warm white temple, faced with precast concrete limestone, will point east toward the historic Brigham City Tabernacle with the top of the angel Moroni reaching several feet above the highest point of the tabernacle. All rights reserved. The Brigham City Utah Temple District covers the same region as the original Box Elder Stake. [31][32] In August 1835, Young and the rest of the Quorum of the Twelve issued a testimony in support of the divine origin of the Doctrine and Covenants. [164] In the 1840s, Young strove to keep aloof from nationwide political debates over slavery, avoiding committing to either antislavery or proslavery positions. President Boyd K. Packer had attended school there as a boy. [83][84] Young and his counselors were again sustained unanimously by church members at a church conference in Salt Lake City in September 1850.[85]. Box Elder County. "[132], These racial restrictions remained in place until 1978, when the policy was rescinded by church president Spencer W. Kimball,[133] and the church subsequently "disavow[ed] theories advanced in the past" to explain this ban,[134] essentially attributing the origins of the ban solely to Young. United States. [21] Young and Kimball spent the summer following their baptism conducting missionary work in western New York, while Vilate Kimball cared for Young's family. [151] On September 2, 1877, Young's funeral was held in the Tabernacle with an estimated 12,000 to 15,000 people in attendance. [180][181][182], At the time of Young's death, nineteen of his wives had predeceased him; he was divorced from ten, and twenty-three survived him. These wives bore him children after they moved to Utah. The sweetest relationships we can experience in life are in loving families. [67], Before departing Nauvoo, Young focused on completing the Nauvoo temple. [194], Gregg Henry depicts Young in the fourth (2014) and fifth (2015) seasons of the TV series Hell on Wheels, a fictional story about the construction of the First transcontinental railroad. He was the second president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), from 1847 until his death in 1877. During the defense of Utah, now called the Utah War, Young held the U.S. Army at bay for a winter by taking their cattle and burning supply wagons. [65] Not all church members followed Young. Everything in the temple points us to Jesus Christ. [66] Young led the church as president of the Quorum of the Twelve until December 5, 1847, when the quorum unanimously agreed to organize a new First Presidency with Young as president of the church. Brigham Young University. should serve the seed of Abraham; he should not be a ruler, nor vote for men to rule over me nor my brethren. If you accept, you may be prompted by your browser to allow this. Only children under the age of seven, who were cared for by local Mormon families, survived, and the murdered members of the wagon train were left unburied. [115], One of the more controversial teachings of Young during the Mormon Reformation was the AdamGod doctrine. From another planet, Adam brought Eve, one of his wives, with him to the earth, where they became mortal by eating the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. [108], Young also organized a committee to refine the Deseret alphabeta phonetic alphabet which had been developed sometime between 1847 and 1854. For two years, the monument stood as a memorial to those travelling the Spanish Trail through Mountain Meadow. [4], Young was born on June 1, 1801, in Whitingham, Vermont. [176], Of Young's fifty-six wives, twenty-one had never been married before; seventeen were widows; six were divorced; six had living husbands and the marital status of six others is unknown. Young negotiated with Stephen A. Douglas and agreed to lead church members out of Nauvoo in the spring in exchange for peace. In June 1844 while Young was away, Joseph Smith was killed by an armed mob who stormed the jail where he was awaiting trial for the charge of treason. The grounds will include a water feature and fruit trees, paying homage to the area's roots in fruit growing.3. Parking will consist of 123 surface stalls, 130 underground stalls, and 29 street stalls. TUHS neither provides nor controls the provision of health care. [178] A few of his wives served in administrative positions in the church, such as Zina Huntington and Eliza R. Snow. [42] Young and the other apostles directed the church's missionary work and the immigration of new converts from this point forward. He joined the Nauvoo city council in 1841 and oversaw the first baptisms for the dead in the unfinished Nauvoo temple. Memorials to Young include a bronze statue in front of the Abraham O. Smoot Administration Building, Brigham Young University; a marble statue in the National Statuary Hall Collection at the United States Capitol, donated by the State of Utah in 1950;[163] and a statue atop the This is the Place Monument in Salt Lake City. "[76], Upon being asked why he chose for them to settle in the Salt Lake Valley, Young stated: "We have been kicked out of the frying-pan into the fire, out of the fire into the middle of the floor, and here we are and here we will stay. [176] The policy and practice of polygamy was difficult for many in the church to accept. [10] They first resided in a small house adjacent to a pail factory, which was Young's main place of employment at the time. This is due to differences in what scholars have considered to be a "wife". Temples are reopening in phases due to COVID-19 pandemic. [45][46] Young campaigned against Bennett's allegations that Joseph Smith practiced "spiritual wifery"; Young knew of Smith's hidden practice of polygamy. According to the doctrine, Adam was once a mortal man who became resurrected and exalted. [103], On October 16, 1875, Young deeded buildings and land in Provo, Utah to a board of trustees for establishing an institution of learning, ostensibly as part of the University of Deseret. When asked to comment on the story, which had, "provoked the animosity of the Mormon faithful", Doyle noted, "all I said about the Danite Band and the murders is historical so I cannot withdraw that though it is likely that in a work of fiction it is stated more luridly than in a work of history." Each TUHS member organization is owned and operated pursuant to its governing documents. On this mission he visited the family of his aunt, Rhoda Howe Richards. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints News Release, "President Packer Presides at Groundbreaking of Brigham City Utah Temple," 31 Jul. Address 250 South Main Street Brigham City, Utah 84302-2120 United States Telephone: (+1) 435-695-2170 Street Map - Nearby Hotels Services NO clothing rental available NO cafeteria food served NO patron housing available [152] He is buried on the grounds of the Mormon Pioneer Memorial Monument in the heart of Salt Lake City. This was partly experienced when Young traveled with his wife, Miriam, and Heber C. Kimball to visit the branch of the church in Columbia. His call was to preach to the "remnants of Joseph," a term people in the Church used to refer to indigenous people. [191], Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., talking about his fondness of trees, joked in his The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table: "I call all trees mine that I have put my wedding-ring on, and I have as many tree-wives as Brigham Young has human ones."[192]. In Mendon, Young first became acquainted with Heber C. Kimball, an early member of the LDS Church. They described the Book of Mormon as the "stick of Joseph" mentioned in Ezekiel 37. Latter-day Saints are a temple-building and temple-loving people. President Packer had attended elementary school 80 years before on the very site where he stood. A polygamist, Young had at least 56 wives and 57 children. [7] Young moved to Auburn, New York where he was an apprentice to John C. Jeffries. They were from Arkansas." The Church of Jesus Christ Will Build 18 New Houses of the Lord, President Nelson Presides at Ephraim Utah Temple Groundbreaking. President and Prophet Russell M. Nelson made this announcement Sunday in the final session of the October 2022 general conference. A bronze marker was placed at the grave site June 10, 1938, by members of the Young Men and Young Women organizations, which he founded. [33] He oversaw the finishing of the Kirtland temple and spoke in tongues at its dedication in 1836. [12] In 1828, the family moved briefly to Oswego, New York on the shore of Lake Ontario, and in 1828 to Mendon, New York. This colored race have been subjected to severe curses which they have brought upon themselves. He was later joined by his family and by other members of the church in Missouri. Lyon, T. Edgar (1989). The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints News Release, "Five New Temples Announced," 3 Oct. 2009. [195] He encounters Joseph Smith and attempts to ambush his party of Mormons, but, rather than engaging with "the Clitoris Man", Smith shows mercy, rubbing one of the frogs that God has given him to have sex with to cure his AIDS on Young's face, curing his AIDS, and so moving him that he decides to convert to the faith. God has shown me that this is the spot to locate his people, and here is where they will prosper. Under Smith's leadership, Young participated in the building of the Kirtland and Nauvoo temples. This is one of the smallest in Utah, at just 36,000 square feet. [27][28], At a conference on February 14, 1835, Brigham Young was named and ordained a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. Please contact the temple for more information or if you have special circumstances or needs. We offer telemedicine appointments for many of our specialty services. "[177] By the time of his death, Young had fifty-seven children by sixteen of his wives; forty-six of his children reached adulthood. In the main navigation on ChurchofJesusChrist.org, select Serve and then Temples. Email Log in to send email to temple. [166][167] However, two weeks later Young declared himself a "firm believer in slavery". Here he became acquainted with Mary Ann Angell, a convert to the faith from Rhode Island, and the two were married in February 1834 and obtained a marriage certificate on March 31, 1834. I create online training, conduct in-person training . Joseph had been a Reformed Methodist preacher and the two made a similar "preaching circuit" in eastern Canada. [107] The Young Women organization was first called the Retrenchment Association, and was intended to promote the turning of young girls away from the costly and extravagant ways of the world. For a view skeptical of the "mantle phenomenon" as historically authentic, see. The remains of about 40 people were later found and buried, and U.S. Army officer James Henry Carleton had a large cross made from local trees, the transverse beam bearing the engraving, "Vengeance Is Mine, Saith The Lord: I Will Repay" and erected a cairn of rocks at the site. President Packer, president of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, and his wife Donna are natives of Brigham City. Brigham City Utah West Stake. [26] His third child and first son, Joseph A. During his time as church president, Young led his followers, the Mormon pioneers, west from Nauvoo, Illinois, to the Salt Lake Valley. Young is the longest-serving president of the LDS Church to date, having served for 29 years. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will build 18 new houses of the Lord in the coming months and years. Rigdon became the president of a separate church organization based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and several other potential successors emerged to lead what became other denominations of the movement. He then stayed for a short time in Dublin, Indiana with his brother Lorenzo before moving to Far West, Missouri in 1838. John Turner's biography states: "it remains unclear whether Young [] had sanctioned the bogus-making operation. [136] The Mormon Reformation called for a spiritual reawakening among members of the church, and took place largely in the Utah Territory. Young petitioned the U.S. Congress to create the State of Deseret. In the early 1850s, he expressed some support for the antislavery "free soil" position in American politics,[165] and in January 1852, he declared in a speech that "no property can or should be recognized as existing in slaves", suggesting opposition to the existence of slavery. [113] In 1853, Young made the church's first official statement on the subject since the church had arrived in Utah. He joined the Masons in Nauvoo on April 7, 1842, and participated in an early endowment ritual led by Joseph Smith that May and became part of the Anointed Quorum. After meeting Joseph Smith, Young joined the Church of Christ in April 9, 1832. The majority of Young's teachings are contained in the 19 volumes of transcribed and edited sermons in the Journal of Discourses. [120][121] Instead, those who committed such sins could partially atone for their sin by sacrificing their life in a way that sheds blood. [40][41] Young also served in various leadership and community organization roles among church members in Nauvoo. According to Young, he was taught by Smith that Adam is "our Father and our God, and the only God with whom we have to do". Take a look inside the Washington D.C. Temple with a tour hosted by Elder and Sister Stevenson and Elder and Sister Renlund. On October 3, 2009, during the Saturday morning session of the 179th Semiannual General Conference, President Thomas S. Monson announced the construction of the Brigham City Utah TempleUtah's fourteenth temple. New: For Chestnut Hill Hospital appointment scheduling, call 215-248-8400. [44], During his time in Nauvoo, Joseph Smith introduced the doctrine of plural marriage among church leaders. 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