From Deseret News archives:
Nauvoo Temple
New centerpiece rises in the 'city beautiful'
The building's first dedication ceremony on June 27 will be a watershed moment for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Early members abandoned the first Nauvoo Temple and headed west to the Rocky Mountains in 1846 after years of intense persecution.
A small group stayed in Nauvoo, finishing the temple three months later. An arson fire destroyed the temple's interior in October 1848, and a tornado in May 1850 knocked down one wall and weakened others. The remainder of the temple walls were eventually taken down.
One of them is President Gordon B. Hinckley, who set the reconstruction in motion in April 1999 with an announcement that the temple would be rebuilt.
His father, Bryant S. Hinckley, was a mission president in the Midwest area that encompassed Nauvoo in 1939 the 100th anniversary of the town's beginnings. Bryant S. Hinckley suggested that the temple be rebuilt.
President Hinckley told builders he wanted the temple's exterior to be as close to the original as possible, with the same hand-carved stonework that made the original an unprecedented achievement on what was then the edge of the wild frontier.
As for the interior, designers and builders stayed as true as possible to the decor, furnishings and feel of the old temple while incorporating such modern features as electric light fixtures, heating, air conditioning, plumbing and earthquake-resistant design.
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