Matthew Grow, managing director of the LDS Church’s History Department, and Emily Utt, a curator of Latter-day Saint historic sites, discuss the Kirtland Temple purchase and the renovation of the Manti Temple.
The Kirtland Temple, left, was purchased by the Salt Lake City-based faith in March from the Community of Christ. The Manti Temple, right, was recently renovated and is open for public tours before being rededicated in April.
In the past, historians and preservationists were not always pleased with how The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints treated its treasured buildings., which is now open to public tours. And they are reassured by the Salt Lake City-based church’s plans for its recent‘Mormon Land’: Two churches came together for sale of Kirtland Temple. How those ties may now change.LDS missionaries to staff newly purchased Kirtland Temple and Nauvoo sites.
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