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Zion (place)
Summary
JS revelation, dated 20 July 1831, designated Missouri as “land of Zion” for gathering of Saints and place where “City of Zion” was to be built, with Independence area as “center place” of Zion. Latter-day Saint settlements elsewhere, such as in Kirtland, Ohio, became known as “stakes” of Zion. About 1,200 Saints gathered in Jackson Co., but were expelled by other residents, 1833. After Saints settled in other counties, such as Clay and Caldwell, JS and church members continued to refer to main body of Saints in Missouri as Zion but still considered Independence to be center place and planned to return. JS dictated several revelations about “redeeming Zion” and recovering their lands in Jackson Co. In 1840, after Saints had left Missouri and settled in Nauvoo, Illinois, JS declared that Zion referred to all of North and South America and anywhere Saints gathered. See also glossary listings “” and “.”
Links
papers
glossary
- History Draft [6 August 1838–30 December 1839]
- John Whitmer, History, 1831–circa 1847
- Elders’ Journal, August 1838
- Account of Meetings, Revelation, and Blessing, 5–6 December 1834
- Agreement with Amos Rees and Alexander Doniphan, 28 November 1838
- Appendix 1: Revelation, 3 November 1831, Sidney Rigdon Copy [D&C 133]
- Appendix 2: Letter to the Saints Scattered Abroad, June 1835
- Appendix 3: Statement on Marriage, circa August 1835
- Blessing to David Whitmer, 22 September 1835
- Blessing to John Corrill, 22 September 1835
- Certificate from Elias Higbee, 9 July 1838
- Charges against Missouri Conference Preferred to Joseph Smith, circa March 1832
- Discourse, circa 19 July 1840, as Reported by Martha Jane Knowlton Coray–A
- Doctrine and Covenants, 1844
- History, 1834–1836
- Instruction on Priesthood, between circa 1 March and circa 4 May 1835 [D&C 107]
- Journal, December 1842–June 1844; Book 1, 21 December 1842–10 March 1843
- Letter from Don Carlos Smith, circa Late May 1838
- Letter from Edward Partridge, between 14 and 19 November 1833
- Letter from Oliver Cowdery, 28 January 1832
- Letter from Thomas B. Marsh, 15 February 1838
- Letter from Wilford Woodruff and Others, 9 March 1838
- Letter from William W. Phelps, 15 December 1833
- Letter from William W. Phelps, 15 December 1833, as Published in Evening and Morning Star
- Letter to Edward Partridge and Others, 14 January 1833
- Letter to William W. Phelps, 11 January 1833
- Letter to Church Leaders in Jackson County, Missouri, 21 April 1833
- Letter to Church Leaders in Jackson County, Missouri, 10 August 1833
- Letter to Church Leaders in Jackson County, Missouri, 18 August 1833
- Letter to Church Leaders in Jackson County, Missouri, 2 July 1833
- Letter to Church Leaders in Jackson County, Missouri, 6 August 1833
- Letter to Church Leaders in Jackson County, Missouri, 25 June 1833
- Letter to Church Officers in Clay County, Missouri, 31 August 1835
- Letter to Edward Partridge, 2 May 1833
- Letter to Edward Partridge and Others, 10 December 1833
- Letter to Edward Partridge and Others, 30 March 1834
- Letter to Edward Partridge, 5 December 1833
- Letter to Heber C. Kimball and Brigham Young, 16 January 1839
- Letter to John Corrill and the Church in Missouri, 4 September 1837
- Letter to John Whitmer, 9 April 1838
- Letter to Moses Nickerson, 19 November 1833
- Letter to Orson Hyde, 7 April 1834
- Letter to Sally Waterman Phelps, 20 July 1835
- Letter to Stephen Post, 17 September 1838
- Letter to Vienna Jaques, 4 September 1833
- Letter to Wilford Woodruff, circa 18 June 1838
- Letter to William Marks and Newel K. Whitney, 8 July 1838
- Letter to William W. Phelps, 31 July 1832
- Letter to William W. Phelps, 27 November 1832
- Letter to the Church in Clay County, Missouri, 22 January 1834
- Letter to the Presidency in Kirtland, 29 March 1838
- Letter, 30 October 1833
- Letters to John Burk, Sally Waterman Phelps, and Almira Mack Scobey, 1–2 June 1835
- License Record Book
- Memorial to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, circa 30 October 1839–27 January 1840
- Minute Book 2
- Minutes and Discourse, 2 May 1835, as Reported by William E. McLellin–A
- Minutes and Discourse, 3–5 October 1840
- Minutes and Discourses, 5–7 October 1839
- Minutes and Testimonies, 12–29 November 1838, Copy and Letter [ State of Missouri v. Gates et al. for Treason ]
- Minutes, 1 September 1831
- Minutes, 11 November 1831
- Minutes, 11 September 1833
- Minutes, 12 April 1838
- Minutes, 12 November 1831
- Minutes, 12 September 1831
- Minutes, 13 April 1838
- Minutes, 13 July 1833
- Minutes, 13–14 January 1833
- Minutes, 14 April 1838
- Minutes, 15 March 1838
- Minutes, 17 August 1835
- Minutes, 17 March 1834
- Minutes, 20 February 1834
- Minutes, 21 April 1838
- Minutes, 24 February 1834
- Minutes, 24 March 1838
- Minutes, 25–26 October 1831
- Minutes, 26 July 1838
- Minutes, 26–27 April 1832
- Minutes, 28 April 1838, as Reported by Ebenezer Robinson
- Minutes, 28 June 1838
- Minutes, 28–29 September 1835
- Minutes, 3 July 1834
- Minutes, 30 April 1832
- Minutes, 30 April 1833
- Minutes, 6 April 1838
- Minutes, 7–8 April 1838
- Minutes, circa 1 May 1832
- Motto, circa 16 or 17 March 1838
- Plan of the House of the Lord, between 1 and 25 June 1833
- Plat of the City of Zion, circa Early June–25 June 1833
- Prayer, 11 January 1834
- Proposal for Zion’s City Center from Edward Partridge, circa Late September 1833
- Prospectus for Elders’ Journal, 30 April 1838
- Questions and Answers, between circa 16 and circa 29 March 1838–A [D&C 113:1–6]
- Questions and Answers, between circa 16 and circa 29 March 1838–B [D&C 113:7–10]
- Resolution, circa 8 April 1838
- Revelation, 2 August 1833–A [D&C 97]
- Revelation, 2 August 1833–B [D&C 94]
- Revelation, 6 August 1833 [D&C 98]
- Revelation, 1 August 1831 [D&C 58]
- Revelation, 1 August 1831, as Published in Howe, Mormonism Unvailed [D&C 58]
- Revelation, 1 March 1832 [D&C 78]
- Revelation, 1 November 1831–A [D&C 68]
- Revelation, 11 November 1831–A [D&C 69]
- Revelation, 11 April 1838 [D&C 114]
- Revelation, 11 November 1831–B [D&C 107 (partial)]
- Revelation, 11 November 1831–B, Orson Hyde Copy [D&C 107 (partial)]
- Revelation, 11 September 1831 [D&C 64]
- Revelation, 11 September 1831, John Whitmer Copy [D&C 64]
- Revelation, 11 September 1831, as Published and Recorded in Partridge copy of Book of Commandments [D&C 64]
- Revelation, 11 September 1831, as Recorded in Gilbert, Notebook [D&C 64]
- Revelation, 11 September 1831, as Recorded in Hyde and Smith, Notebook [D&C 64]
- Revelation, 12 November 1831 [D&C 70]
- Revelation, 12 August 1831 [D&C 61]
- Revelation, 12 August 1831, as Recorded in Gilbert, Notebook [D&C 61]
- Revelation, 12 January 1838–C
- Revelation, 16–17 December 1833 [D&C 101]
- Revelation, 16–17 December 1833, as Published in Howe, Mormonism Unvailed [D&C 101]
- Revelation, 17 April 1838
- Revelation, 20 July 1831, as Recorded in Gilbert, Notebook [D&C 57]
- Revelation, 20 March 1832
- Revelation, 22 June 1834, John Corrill Copy [D&C 105]
- Revelation, 22 June 1834, as Recorded in Book of the Law of the Lord [D&C 105]
- Revelation, 22 June 1834, as Recorded in Richards, Pocket Companion [D&C 105]
- Revelation, 22–23 September 1832 [D&C 84]
- Revelation, 23 April 1834 [D&C 104]
- Revelation, 24 February 1834 [D&C 103]
- Revelation, 24 February 1834, as Published in Clayton, Revelations [D&C 103]
- Revelation, 24 February 1834, as Recorded in Book of the Law of the Lord [D&C 103]
- Revelation, 25 December 1832 [D&C 87]
- Revelation, 26 April 1832 [D&C 82]
- Revelation, 26 April 1838 [D&C 115]
- Revelation, 28 April 1834
- Revelation, 29 August 1832 [D&C 99]
- Revelation, 29 October 1831 [D&C 66]
- Revelation, 29 October 1831, as Recorded in McLellin, Journal [D&C 66]
- Revelation, 3 November 1831 [D&C 133]
- Revelation, 3 November 1831, as Published in Times and Seasons [D&C 133]
- Revelation, 30 August 1831 [D&C 63]
- Revelation, 30 April 1832 [D&C 83]
- Revelation, 30 August 1831, as Recorded in Gilbert, Notebook [D&C 63]
- Revelation, 31 August 1831
- Revelation, 4 December 1831–A [D&C 72:1–8]
- Revelation, 4 December 1831–B [D&C 72:9–23]
- Revelation, 4 December 1831–C [D&C 72:24–26]
- Revelation, 4 December 1831, Unidentified Scribe Copy [D&C 72]
- Revelation, 4 December 1831, as Recorded in Hyde and Smith, Notebook [D&C 72]
- Revelation, 6 December 1832, as Recorded in Gilbert, Notebook [D&C 86]
- Revelation, 7 August 1831 [D&C 59]
- Revelation, 7 August 1831, as Recorded in Hyde and Smith, Notebook [D&C 59]
- Revelation, 8 August 1831 [D&C 60]
- Revelation, 8 July 1838–A [D&C 118]
- Revelation, 8 July 1838–B
- Revelation, 8 July 1838–C [D&C 119]
- Revelation, 8 July 1838–D [D&C 120]
- Revelation, 8 July 1838–E [D&C 117]
- Revelation, 9 July 1841 [D&C 126]
- Revelation, between circa 8 and circa 24 March 1832
- Revelation, circa June 1835 [D&C 68]
- Revised Plan of the House of the Lord, circa 10 August–circa 4 September 1833
- Revised Plat of the City of Zion, circa Early August 1833
- Travel Account and Questions, November 1837
- Vision, 16 February 1832, as Recorded in Gilbert, Notebook [D&C 76]