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Joseph City, Arizona
The Hopi Village Indian Store & Cafe, opened in the 1940’s. In the 1950’s it was known as Howdy Hank Hopi Village, and a swimming pool and small motel were added. In the 1970s it was called The Sitting Bull Indian Store. Today, the property operates as “Old Historic Route 66 Hay Sales & Feed Store”.
Joseph City is named after Mormon leader Joseph Smith, and is the first Mormon settlement in Arizona.
Reflections in the glass wall of Welcome Center created a unique imagery which I captured.
Jesus Christ (Creator of Sun, Moon and Heavens)
In the Book of Mormon, about the year 124 B.C. an angel speaks to the Nephite king Benjamin, "And he shall be called Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the Father of heaven and earth, the Creator of all things from the beginning; and his mother shall be called Mary."[9] Regarded as the Creator of the earth, sun, moon, and stars etc. he is at times referred to as the father of heaven and earth. This is one sense in which he shares the title "Father" with his father. The church also teaches that those who accept Christ and are baptized are symbolically born again and become the children of Christ.[32] The church teaches that Jesus Christ is central to his father's plan of happiness and emphasizes that Christ's divinity enabled him to take upon himself the penalty for sin and to endure the consequential suffering in Gethsemane and on the cross that paid for the sins of humanity. This Atonement however is also believed to cover not only sin, but all pain, suffering, heart ache, or hardship experienced in this life.[33]. Latter-day Saints believe that Jesus' status as the son of a mortal woman gave him the ability to suffer temptations and experience physical death; while his status as the Son of God gave him the power to lay down and take up his life again at will. The church also believes in the physical resurrection of Jesus' body: that his physical body and spirit body were reunited, never again to be separated. Because of its emphasis on Jesus' resurrection and his status as the living head of the church, the church does not use the symbol of the Christian cross except on the uniforms of military chaplains. Instead, the church tends to focus on the belief that Jesus overcame suffering and death and that he lives today.
The Nauvoo home of LDS prophet Joseph Smith is owned by the Community of Christ, formerly known as the Reformed LDS Church. They have maintained his home to show the different periods of its construction, three of which you see here.
Joseph Smith began to build this house in the 1840s to house new arrivals to his community at Nauvoo. It is now owned and managed by the Community of Christ, formerly known as the Reformed LDS Church.
Representation of Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormon Church, as a sphinx located in Gilgal Garden.
Gilgal Sculpture Garden is a small public city park, located at 749 East 500 South in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. The park, which is filled with unusual symbolic statuary associated with Mormonism, notably to the Sphinx with Joseph Smith's head, was a labor of love designed and created by LDS businessman Thomas Battersby Child, Jr. (1888-1963) in his spare time. The park contains 12 original sculptures and over 70 stones engraved with scriptures, poems and literary texts. Gilgal Sculpture Garden is the only designated "visionary art environment" in the state of Utah.
The name "Gilgal" is sometimes translated to mean "circle of standing stones," an appropriate appellation for a sculpture garden. Gilgal is also the name of a city and a valley in The Book of Mormon, a sacred scripture in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. -- Courtesy Wikipedia
The Sphinx is the best-known sculpture in Gilgal Garden. It is also, Child wrote “the basis of thought or inspiration for all that is built around it.” The contrast of the unhewn stones arranged to suggest a crouching animal with the finely carved face of LDS Church founder Joseph Smith makes this a remarkable piece. Child carefully selected the huge quartzite stones to form the Sphinx’s body and hired sculptor Maurice Brooks to create the face using an oxyacetylene torch.
The Sphinx represents Child’s belief that the answers to life’s great questions cannot be discovered with the intellect, but only through faith. The sphinx is an ancient symbol of riddles and mystery. Joseph Smith’s face symbolizes Child’s conviction that the LDS Priesthood reveals to mankind the answers to life’s mysteries.
To see more of this quirky but fascinating sculpture garden check out my album here: www.flickr.com/photos/19779889@N00/albums/721777203075209...
nrhp # 66000321- Nauvoo Historic District is a National Historic Landmark District containing the city of Nauvoo, Illinois. The historic district is nearly coterminous with the City of Nauvoo as it was incorporated in 1840.
The district was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1961.[2] It is significant as the headquarters of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1839 and 1846, and as an important early example of community planning by the LDS church. The city's basic plan is still discernible despite the many modern intrusions, and there are a wealth of historical archaeological sites related to the early LDS settlement period, including the site of the main temple, which occupied a prominent location in the city; it was burned in 1848 and its remains were levelled by a tornado in 1865. Due to the large influx of Mormons, Nauvoo became Illinois's largest city for a brief period in the 1840s. Despite this, it lacked a distinct commercial center, consisting mainly of residences laid out on broad streets on a rectangular grid.[3]
The Mormons were forced out of Nauvoo in 1848, and the community was taken over by the Icarians, a utopian religious movement. In the 1960s, Mormon preservationists began to restore it and develop it as a tourism site related to the history of Mormonism.
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"Suddenly a light descended, / Brighter far than noonday sun, / And a shining, glorious pillar / O'er him fell, around him shone, / 'Joseph, this is my Beloved; / Hear him!' Oh, how sweet the word! / Joseph's humble prayer was answered, / And he listened to the Lord."
"Joseph Smith's First Prayer" (3-4)
This one took me a while to get the light just right. I tried lots of different angles and amounts of mist but I’m very happy with how it turned out.
Located in Independence, Missouri and formally dedicated to the pursuit of peace in April of 1994 the Community of Christ Temple is one of Kansas City's most recognized buildings.
Looking up from the temple floor to the top of the spire is 195 feet.
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The Sphinx is the best-known sculpture in Gilgal Garden designed and created by LDS businessman Thomas Battersby Child, Jr. (1888-1963) in his spare time. It is also, Child wrote “the basis of thought or inspiration for all that is built around it.” The contrast of the unhewn stones arranged to suggest a crouching animal with the finely carved face of Mormon Church founder Joseph Smith makes this a remarkable piece. Child carefully selected the huge quartzite stones to form the Sphinx’s body and hired sculptor Maurice Brooks to create the face using an oxyacetylene torch.
The other finished statues are likewise unconventional, even eccentric: a sacrificial altar, a shrine to Child's beloved wife Bertha even Child's stone interpretation Daniel II: Nebuchadnezzar’s Dream. Not everyone appreciates his particular artistic vision. His primary concern, however, was that the garden would succeed in making people think: "You don't have to agree with me," he said. "You may think I am a nut, but I hope I have aroused your thinking and curiosity." -- Courtesy Friends of Gilgal Garden
Salt Lake City, Utah
To see more of this quirky but fascinating sculpture garden check out my album here: www.flickr.com/photos/19779889@N00/albums/721777203075209...
Statue of Joseph and Hyrum Smith outside the jail where a mob killed them. The LDS church tries to maintain the historical accuracy of the interior, but the exterior landscape is obviously a shrine.
The residence situated at 50 Guy Street, Warwick was constructed for Vodeville Francis Doujère, a local merchant.
Warwick was established as an administrative centre of the emerging Darling Downs regions in 1847, with a post office being established in the town in 1848. This year saw the first survey work of the embryonic town completed by surveyor, JC Bennett, with further surveys in 1850, and the first sale of crown land in July 1850. On May the 25th, 1861, Warwick was granted the status of a municipality, and discussions soon after for the introduction of the railway which was in elementary stages of planning in Queensland.
The property, being 1 rood 35 perches, on which the house was constructed was acquired by Deed of Grant by William Tidman of Ipswich in September 1860, and transferred the following year to Henry Clinton of Main Range, and then to Arnold Weinholt of Maryvale in June 1862. Elizabeth Bridget Dourjère, a widow, acquired the property in July 1880 and on her death on the 26th of August 1882 the property was left to Vodeville Dourjère and Diamantina Dourjère.
The Warwick rate books for this period indicate that a house, valued at £35 was indeed on the property from 1888. These books show that Vodeville Dourjère who is variously described as a draper, grocer and storeman both dwelt in and owned the property from 1891, when its value increased from £35 to £150. This sudden rise in value seems to indicate that a house may have been constructed in this year.
William Kennedy Hyslop acquired the property at 50 Guy Street in May 1903 and retained it until November 1929 when the property was transferred to his wife, Mary Maria Hyslop. 50 Guy Street passed from the Hyslop family in February 1940 after the death of Mary Hyslop, when it was transferred to Alice May Charles. It changed hands many times and then, in 1985, was purchased by the Corporation of the Presiding Bishop of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. To accommodate the auditorium of the church in the residence internal walls were removed to turn three rooms on the north of the central hallway into a small auditorium.
Source: Queensland Heritage Register.
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This is an HDR image created from three exposures using Photomatix and subsequently processed using Lightroom 5. However, perhaps because of the length of the exposures, two of the images had the same exposure settings.
The life-sized bronze sculptures stand across the street facing the entrance of the beautifully rebuilt LDS Temple in Nauvoo, Illinois. A plaque on the base of the sculptures reads:
"On the morning of June 24, 1844, Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum left their families, homes, and fellow Saints for the last time. Traveling on horseback, they paused on this bluff, Joseph looked admirably at the unfinished temple and the city of Nauvoo and declared:
"This is the loveliest place and the best people under the heavens; little do they know of the trials that await them.
"Joseph and Hyrum then continued on to Carthage, Illinois, where they faced legal charges and eventual death at the hands of a mob.
"Sculpted by Stan Watts and Kim Corpany, 2003
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The home of Joseph Smith near Palmyra, New York, was built by his father and brothers in the middle 1820's. it was here that the gold plates from which the Book of Mormon was translated were taken after they were received from teh Angel Moroni at Hill Cumorah three miles to the southeast. The Sacred Grove where Joseph Smith had his first vision is on the same farm.
"Eyes Westward" by Dee Jay Bawden, at Nauvoo Landing, on the banks of the Mississippi River. Joseph Smith is showing Brigham Young the way to Utah, and Brigham Young holds the map.
Joseph Smith's Mansion House, built in 1842 to accommodate the growing number of guests who came to see him.
It was built by church member Robert D. Foster after Smith received a revelation that Foster needed to fulfill a contract they had made: "And again, verily I say unto you, if my servant Robert D. Foster will obey my voice, let him build a house for my servant Joseph, according to the contract which he has made with him, as the door shall be open to him from time to time." Doctrines and Covenants 124: 115.
It is now managed by the Joseph Smith Historic Site, owned by the Community of Christ (formerly known as the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints).
Three large trees in the Sacred Grove, backlight by the morning sun. This "Shady Woodland" is on the Joseph Smith Farm, a few miles from Palmyra in Western New York State. (This cropped version has a 2:1 printing ratio for panoramic prints — an up-cropped version is show below in the comments.)
This photograph was taken in mid-May.
You can also view a slide show of the Sacred Grove and the Smith Farm (lots of information, maps and other details) at www.TheFirstVision.com. PRINTS can be ordered through my profile page.
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nrhp # 66000321- Nauvoo Historic District- The Red Brick Store in Nauvoo, Illinois, was a building that was constructed and owned by Joseph Smith, the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement.
Smith constructed the Red Brick Store in 1841. The building became a center of economic, political, religious, and social activity among the Latter Day Saints. In addition to being a mercantile store, the second floor of the building also served as the headquarters of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints for a period of time. Members would visit the store to pay their tithing and other offerings to the church.
After Joseph Smith was killed and the majority of Latter Day Saints left Nauvoo, the Red Brick Store fell into disrepair. Eventually, it was torn down and the bricks were used to construct new buildings in Nauvoo.
In 1980, the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints rebuilt the Red Brick Store on the original foundation as part of its 1980 sesquicentennial celebrations. Today, the Red Brick Store is owned and operated as a tourist attraction by the Community of Christ. The Store sells goods that are similar to the kind that were sold in the Store in the 1840s.
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Three large trees in the Sacred Grove, backlight by the morning sun. This "Shady Woodland" is on the Joseph Smith Farm, a few miles from Palmyra in Western New York State.
This photograph was taken in mid-May.
You can also view a slide show of the Sacred Grove and the Smith Farm (lots of information, maps and other details) at www.thefirstvision.com/.
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Today I am thrilled to announce my next major LEGO-illustrated project that I'll be working on over the next couple of years. Ever since The Brick Bible first delighted audiences and made them look anew at the content of the Old Testament and New Testament, fans have been asking if I’ll ever illustrate any of the world’s *other* holy books and scriptures. Finally, an answer to that question has arrived: yup.
I invite you all to “like” The Brick Book of Mormon on Facebook (www.facebook.com/thebrickbookofmormon) to receive progress updates as this project moves forward. I have also launched thebrickbookofmormon.com as the official website. I would appreciate it if you’d share this post with any and all of your friends who you think would be interested in my project to illustrate in LEGO the teachings and history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
The goal of the project is to make these teachings better known to the world. It is designed to capture the interest of non-Mormons curious to know what the LDS Church teaches, as well as believing Mormons looking for a fun new way to learn and share the history and teachings of their church. This project is currently in the RESEARCH PHASE in which I have been spending many months immersing myself in the scriptures and teaching manuals of the LDS Church and taking hundreds and hundreds of pages of notes. In the next phase, all these notes will be worked into a manuscript. From there the illustration phase will begin. It is not yet determined whether The Brick Book of Mormon will first be published as a book (like The Brick Chronicle series) or whether it will publish first to the web and then go to print (like The Brick Bible).
I look forward to providing regular updates on Facebook as this project comes together. It’s been totally fascinating and fun to work on these past many months. In the coming days I’ll have lots more to share about the (fairly epic) scope of the project and planned structure of The Brick Book of Mormon: The Illustrated History and Teachings of the LDS Church.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints controls more than half of the historic district in Nauvoo, including the Brigham Young sites.
The Joseph Smith sites in Nauvoo are mostly controlled by a different church. Joseph Smith's lawful widow Emma Smith, and his children by her, did not follow Brigham Young to Utah. Their Reformed LDS Church is now known as the Community of Christ and is headquartered in Independence, Missouri.
While imprisoned in the Carthage Jail, Joseph and Hyrum Smith ate meals here with the jailer's family. It was possible to lock people up in the jail, but the Smiths had turned themselves in voluntarily and were apparently not deemed much of a flight risk.
Visit www.thebrickbookofmormon.com to see my latest project illustrating holy scriptures in LEGO bricks!
Mormon Church founding prophet, Joseph Smith, depicted as a sphinx at the Gilgal Garden in Salt City, Utah. The Sculpture Garden was envisioned, designed and created by Thomas Battersby Child, Jr. in the mid-twentieth century. Gilgal Sculpture Garden contains 12 original sculptures and over 70 stones engraved with scriptures, poems, and literary texts. As a whole, Gilgal Sculpture Garden is significant as the only identified "visionary art environment" in Utah.
To see more of this quirky but fascinating sculpture garden check out my album here: www.flickr.com/photos/19779889@N00/albums/721777203075209...
"Between Heaven and Earth" by Michael VaughAn. Background star field is courtesy of astrophotographer Dr. Robert Gendler.
This three-part stained-glass window depicts the appearance of the Father and the Son to a 14-year-old Joseph Smith. It was made in 1913 for the Adams Ward chapel of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Los Angeles. It was removed when the building was razed in 1959, and is now on display at the Church History Museum in Salt Lake City.