Nauvoo Groves

LOCATION: Partridge and Mulholland Streets
OPEN: Always Open

All Sites, Tours, Shows, and Rides at Historic Nauvoo are FREE!

The Nauvoo Groves are located near the Temple, not far from where Joseph Smith gave many sermons

Between 1839 and 1846, the Latter-day Saints held many of their meetings outdoors. The Nauvoo Groves commemorate those early meetings, many of which occured only a short distance from this spot.

There are many markers telling the story of the Groves from journal accounts

A walk through the Grove will introduce visitors to journal and newspaper accounts of the many occasions when both LDS-Church members and friends were touched in their hearts by the spoken word.

During most of the historic era, when Latter-day Saints were building Nauvoo, the main grove was located immediately west of the temple. For one period, during 1844, Joseph Smith and others preached in a grove east of the temple, with a wooden stand set up near the corner of Robinson and Knight streets, east of the Nauvoo Elementary School.