Joseph Smith's Red Brick Store
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Courtesy Church Archives
This was much more than a store. The upper floor was a meeting room where the City Council and the Temple Committee met. Before the temple’s completion, ordinances were performed in these upper rooms. The Female Relief Society of Nauvoo, created for “the relief of the poor, the destitute, the widow and the orphan, and the exercise of all benevolent purposes,” was also founded here.