John Lyon: the life of a pioneer poet. Upon joining the Methodists, he insisted on being baptized by immersion rather than by their normal practice of sprinkling. He also led the Anointed Quorum. The Brigham City Utah Temple serves members from 13 stakes headquartered in Box Elder County and Malad Valley: Map View. The Brigham City Utah Temple District covers the same region as the original Box Elder Stake. Building and landscape designs were created to reflect both the history of Brigham City and the classical designs found at the Logan, Manti, and Salt Lake temples. This form is secure and our Access Center specialist will call you back within one business day to schedule your appointment. [23] Young continued to preach in eastern Canada in the spring, and accompanied two Canadian converts to Kirtland in July 1833. Young instructed victims of anti-Mormon violence on the outskirts of Nauvoo to move to Nauvoo. President Nelson Presides at Ephraim Utah Temple Groundbreaking . The majority of Young's teachings are contained in the 19 volumes of transcribed and edited sermons in the Journal of Discourses. Please contact the temple for more information or if you have special circumstances or needs. Notify me. [175], Young was a polygamist, having at least fifty-six wives. As part of the Reformation, almost all "active" or involved LDS Church members were rebaptized as a symbol of their commitment. Ordinances and covenants have been a part of the gospel from the beginning. yo ul. PCI stands for the Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute. Thereby the Mormons became the most important single agency in colonizing that vast arid West between the Rockies and the Sierra Nevada. Young's siblings and their spouses were baptized that year or the year afterwards. He was later joined by his family and by other members of the church in Missouri. "[132], These racial restrictions remained in place until 1978, when the policy was rescinded by church president Spencer W. Kimball,[133] and the church subsequently "disavow[ed] theories advanced in the past" to explain this ban,[134] essentially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. [11] Their daughter, Elizabeth, was born on September 26, 1825. Please contact the temple for more information or if you have special circumstances or needs. [155] In 1873, he announced that he would step down as president of the Deseret National Bank and of ZCMI, as well as from his role as trustee-in-trust for the church. The west faade will be detailed similarly to the east including a second spire. [106], Within the church, Young reorganized the Relief Society for women in 1867, and created organizations for young women in 1869 and young men in 1875. [Joseph Smith] was succeeded by one of the outstanding organizers of the 19th century, Brigham Young. He also worked on the Kirtland Temple and went to a grammar school. [5] Young received little formal education, but his mother taught him how to read and write. (Or you can go directly to temples.ChurchofJesusChrist.org.) kmeznx. [187], The Scottish poet John Lyon, who was an intimate friend of Young, wrote Brigham the Bold in tribute to him after his death.[188][189]. Young established a gold mint in 1849 and called for the minting of coins using gold dust which had been accumulated from travelers during the Gold Rush. [42] Young and the other apostles directed the church's missionary work and the immigration of new converts from this point forward. "[97] Seven years later in 1859, Young stated in an interview with the New York Tribune[98] that he considered slavery a "divine institution not to be abolished". The affidavit was created at John C. Bennett's request, after his excommunication and in conjunction with his distribution of false information combined with true information about the church's practice of polygamy. By 1870, it had all but disappeared from use.[109]. [39], Under Young's direction, the quorum organized the exodus of Latter Day Saints from Missouri to Illinois in 1838. Young performed the sealing ordinances for two of Joseph Smith's plural wives in early 1842. [176] The policy and practice of polygamy was difficult for many in the church to accept. He refused to sign a temperance pledge, however, stating that "if I sign the temperance pledge I feel that I am bound, and I wish to do just right, without being bound to do it; I want my liberty. Brigham Young and William Smith discredited Brotherton's character, and Brotherton herself did not associate with the church afterwards. He averred that Chinese and Japanese immigrants would need to be governed by white men as they would have no understanding of government. [178] Young built the Lion House, the Beehive House, the Gardo House, and the White House in downtown Salt Lake City to accommodate his sizable family. For two years, the monument stood as a memorial to those travelling the Spanish Trail through Mountain Meadow. You can schedule an appointment in two ways: You can call us directly at 800-TEMPLE-MED ( 800-836-7536) between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday. Can we use your current location to find the nearest temple? Sidney Rigdon, the senior surviving member of the church's First Presidency, argued there could be no successor to the deceased prophet and that he should stay Joseph's "spokesman" and become guardian of the church. [56][57], In 1844, Young travelled east again to solicit votes for Joseph Smith in his presidential campaign. 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. [48][49][50] Young was one of the first men in Nauvoo to practice polygamy, and he married more women than any other polygamist while in Nauvoo. [131] Young taught that the day would come when black men would again have the priesthood, saying that after "all the other children of Adam have the privilege of receiving the Priesthood, and of coming into the kingdom of God, and of being redeemed from the four-quarters of the earth, and have received their resurrection from the dead, then it will be time enough to remove the curse from Cain and his posterity. [34] Shortly afterwards, Young went on another mission with his brother Joseph to New York and New England. The LDS Church's Doctrine and Covenants contains one section from Young that has been canonized as scripture, added in 1876. Please note: we have Access Center Specialists available to call you during the hours of 8:00am - 6:00 pm, Monday - Friday. The temple has a 9,000-square-foot footprint with three above-ground levels. Many cities and towns in Utah, and some in neighboring states, were founded under Young's direction. [16] In 1831, five missionaries of the Latter Day Saint movementEleazer Miller, Elial Strong, Alpheus Gifford, Enos Curtis, and Daniel Bowencame from the branch of the church in Columbia, Pennsylvania to preach in Mendon. Each TUHS member organization is owned and operated pursuant to its governing documents. Joseph had been a Reformed Methodist preacher and the two made a similar "preaching circuit" in eastern Canada. In the appendix, Twain describes Young as a theocratic "absolute monarch" defying the will of the U.S. government, and alleges using a dubious source that Young had ordered the Mountain Meadows massacre. Young's six-year-old daughter Mary Ann died while he was on this mission. You can schedule an appointment in two ways: Note: This appointment form should not be used for urgent medical issues or emergencies. [104] Young said, "I hope to see an Academy established in Provo at which the children of the Latter-day Saints can receive a good education unmixed with the pernicious atheistic influences that are found in so many of the higher schools of the country. [143] Buchanan accepted the reports of the Runaway Officials without any further investigation, and the new non-sectarian governor was appointed and sent to the new territory accompanied by 2,500 soldiers. Some Latter Day Saint denominations, such as the Community of Christ, consider Young the "Father of Mormon Polygamy". [92]:34, In 1851, Young and several federal officialsincluding territorial Secretary Broughton Harrisbecame unable to work cooperatively. You must have JavaScript enabled to use this form. Young knew her father, Isaac Decker, in New York. [75] Two days after their arrival, Young and the Twelve Apostles climbed the peak just north of the city and raised the American flag, calling it the "Ensign of Liberty. He instituted a ban prohibiting conferring the priesthood on men of black African descent, and led the church in the Utah War against the United States. Fencing will be installed around the temple grounds themselves but not around the surrounding parking lot. The decree of God that Canaan should be a servant of servants unto his brethren (i.e., Shem and Japhet [sic]) is in full force. [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. Appointments. Mary Ann, who was pregnant at the time, had provided for Young's two daughters and the children of her brother Solomon Angell and their friend Lorenzo Booth while Young was away with Zion's Camp. [178] A few of his wives served in administrative positions in the church, such as Zina Huntington and Eliza R. Snow. The Compromise of 1850 instead carved out Utah Territory and Young was appointed governor. In Mendon, Young first became acquainted with Heber C. Kimball, an early member of the LDS Church. Brigham City Utah Stake. Part of the new Business Intelligence/Data Analytics Team. Appointments Address 250 S Main St Brigham City UT 84302-2560 United States Telephone (1) 435-695-2170 Email Log in to send email to temple Prayer Roll Click here to submit names Services No clothing rental available No cafeteria available. Telephone (1) 801-621-6880. During his time as church president, Young led his followers, the Mormon pioneers, west from Nauvoo, Illinois, to the Salt Lake Valley. President Boyd K. Packer had attended school there as a boy. [73] By the time Young arrived at the final destination, it had come under American control as a result of war with Mexico, although U.S. sovereignty would not be confirmed until 1848. They were from Arkansas." [164] In the 1840s, Young strove to keep aloof from nationwide political debates over slavery, avoiding committing to either antislavery or proslavery positions. [24] In May 1834, Young became a member of Zion's Camp, and traveled to Missouri and returned to Kirtland with members of the camp in August. [127] After settling in Utah in 1848, Young announced the ban,[127] which also forbade blacks from participating in Mormon temple rites such as the endowment or sealings. He was the second president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), from 1847 until his death in 1877. "[105] The school broke off from the University of Deseret and became Brigham Young Academy in 1876 under the leadership of Karl G. Maeser,[105] and was the precursor to Brigham Young University. If you accept, you may be prompted by your browser to allow this. Young's leadership style has been viewed as autocratic. ", invoking the name of the late Joseph Smith Jr, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement. Everything in the temple points us to Jesus Christ. Young did not learn of the assassination until early July. [81], After three years of leading the church as the President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, Young reorganized a new First Presidency and was sustained as the second president of the church on December 27, 1847 at Winter Quarters. [160][161] Young was dubbed by his followers the "Lion of the Lord" for his bold personality and commonly was called "Brother Brigham" by Latter-day Saints. Brigham Young (/ b r m /; June 1, 1801 - August 29, 1877) was an American religious leader and politician. Young acknowledged that the doctrine was challenging for many women, but stated its necessity for creating large families, proclaiming: "But the first wife will say, 'It is hard, for I have lived with my husband twenty years, or thirty, and have raised a family of children for him, and it is a great trial to me for him to have more women;' then I say it is time that you gave him up to other women who will bear children. Young had many nicknames during his lifetime, among the most popular being "American Moses"[157] (alternatively, "Modern Moses" or "Mormon Moses"),[158][159] because, like the biblical figure, Young led his followers, the Mormon pioneers, in an exodus through a desert, to what they saw as a promised land. On December 3, 2009, the City Council of Brigham City held a public hearing to receive input on a request by the Church to vacate both the plat that subdivides the temple site into lots and the associated easements. [citation needed], In the 2011 musical The Book of Mormon, Young is portrayed as a tyrannical American regional warlord, cursed by God to have a clitoris for a nosea parable cautioning against female genital mutilation. Shortly after World War II, a survivor of the Nazi concentration camps wrote a book called Man's Search for Meaning. A century after Young's death, historian Rodman W. Paul wrote,[162]. The Brigham City Utah Temple won the PCI Design Award for Best Religious Structure in 2014. [46] Eight of Young's plural marriages in Nauvoo were to Joseph Smith's widows. [119], Young also taught the doctrine of blood atonement, in which the atonement of Jesus cannot redeem an eternal sin, which included apostasy, theft, fornication (but not sodomy), or adultery. He was the second president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), from 1847 until his death in 1877. 2022Temple University Health System, Inc. After meeting Joseph Smith, Young joined the Church of Christ in April 9, 1832. [99], In 1856, Young organized an efficient mail service known as the Brigham Young Express and Carrying Company, which transported mail and passengers between Missouri and California. According to William Hayden, Young participated in the Bucksville Forensic and Oratorical Society. Young is the longest-serving president of the LDS Church to date, having served for 29 years. This is due to differences in what scholars have considered to be a "wife". Temples are reopening in phases due to COVID-19 pandemic. 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.
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