“New Jerusalem”
The New Jerusalem is a center place, a center city which shall be built up and established as the headquarters of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Its location will be independence, Jackson County, Missouri (see D&C 57:3). “We believe ... that Zion (the New Jerusalem) will be built upon the American continent” (Articles of Faith 1:10). “Zion, the New Jerusalem, on American soil! And we hasten to add, so also shall there be Zions in all lands and New Jerusalems in the mountains of the Lord in all the earth. But the American Zion shall be the capital city, the source whence the law shall go forth to govern all the earth. It shall be the city of the Great King. His throne shall be there, and from there he shall reign gloriously over all the earth.” (Bruce R. McConkie, Millennial Messiah, pp. 301-2.)
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