A photo of Mormonism founder Joseph Smith Jr. was found after around 180 years and recently confirmed by one of his family descendants, but the church itself is less sure.

Daguerreotype photo by Jim Mathis, via Daniel Larsen) This side-by-side comparison shows the Joseph Smith Jr. oil portrait, circa 1842, attributed to David Rogers, and the recently discovered ...

An oil painting of Joseph Smith Jr., left, from September 1842 by artist David Rogers. Photo of a daguerreotype of Joseph Smith Jr., possibly from May or early June of 1844.

Utah Polygamy Denounced Before Mormon Conference at Kirtland. THE PROPHET'S SON SPEAKS; JOSEPH SMITH, JR., DENOUNCES POLYGAMY. A REMARKABLE SERMON IN THE FAMOUS OLD TEMPLE AT KIRTLAND--MORMONS ON ...

Jana Riess: Yes, LDS founder Joseph Smith practiced polygamy “The evidence for Joseph’s polygamous sealings is pretty overwhelming,” says historian John Turner, who has penned a new ...

Latest news in and about the LDS Church: How founder Joseph Smith mades headlines in 2024. Salt Lake Tribune. ... With the coming Monday marking the 219th anniversary of Joseph Smith’s birth in ...

(RNS) — In 2000 and 2001, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints focused its worldwide curriculum on the teachings of Joseph F. Smith (1838 – 1918), a nephew of the founding prophet ...

Considering the chaotic first 14 years before founding Prophet Joseph Smith, Jr., was assassinated, it is incredible that today his Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (nicknamed “Mormon” ...

The house, a two-story wood frame building located on Ohio 306 near the Kirtland Temple, was Smith’s home from 1833 to 1838, when he and his followers moved west.