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Independence, Missouri

  1. The Missouri city that Joseph Smith designated as the center place of Zion and the future site of a great temple.

In 1831 a revelation named Independence as the center place of Zion, and a temple lot was dedicated there. Persecution drove the Saints out, but Latter-day Saints still look to the area as the future New Jerusalem.

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