From the United Kingdom to Tonga, 10 notable sites connected to the Church’s history outside the U.S.
See the Benbows’ home and pond in England, where John Taylor was baptized in Toronto, Canada, sites in Tonga and the peak Orson Pratt climbed in Scotland, plus 5 more sites and a bonus one connected to the King James Bible
These 10 notable but not well-known sites connected to Church history, plus a bonus site, include: from top left, first column, the view of Neiafu, Vava’u, Tonga, from Mount Talau; the first missionaries in Nuku’alofa, Tonga, stayed in an apartment in this building; where John and Lenore Taylor lived in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, is now downtown Toronto; second column this marker near the Arizona-New Mexico-Mexico border shows the approximate route of the Mormon Battalion; the grave marker for Abel Evans in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales; third column, the O.C. Card home in Cardston, Alberta, Canada; the pond near John and Jane Benbow home at Hill Farm near the village of Castle Frome, Herefordshire, England; the Henry Savile room at Merton College in Oxford, England; fourth column, the monument on top of Arthur’s Seat near Edinburgh, Scotland; the chapel at Gadfield Elm in Worcestershire, England; and a stream near Chatburn in the Ribble Valley in eastern Lancashire, England. Kenneth Mays
As early leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints sent missionaries beyond the United States and as members traveled or established settlements abroad, many international events became connected to the history of Church.
Locations in Canada, Mexico and the United Kingdom — England, Wales and Scotland — along with islands in Tonga, are part of this list of 10 worldwide sites associated to events in Church history — but they may not be as well-known. A bonus site in England — connected to the translation of King James Bible — is included.
This map shows 10 places outside the United States that are connected to events in Church history: 1. Cardston, Alberta, Canada; 2. Toronto, Ontario, Canada; 3. Castle Frome, England; 4. Lancashire, England; 5. Worcestershire, England; 6. Arizona-New Mexico-Mexico border; 7. Neiafu, Vava’u, Tonga; 8. Nuku’alofa, Tongatapu, Tonga; 9. Edinburgh, Scotland; 10 Merthyr Tydfil, Wales. | Serina Nielson, Deseret News
The restored home of Charles Ora Card is shown in 2006. He led the first groups of members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from Utah to Canada and helped establish the community of Cardston in Alberta, Canada, in 1887. The C.O. Card house is on the Alberta Register of Historic Places and was designated a provincial historic resource in 1978. | Kenneth Mays
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This monument about members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints settling Cardston, Alberta, Canada, is on the outskirts of town — and near the U.S.-Canada border — and is shown in 2006. The plaque reads:
“Mormon pioneers in Alberta"
"At this site the first company of Latter-day Saint settlers entered Canada on 1 June 1887. They paused here where a stone marked the international boundary. In a driving rain, each member of the group of eight families added a rock to the pile, and they all gave three cheers for their new home and religious freedom. ... The main body of the group left northern Utah on 3 April 1887. President Card met them near Helena, Montana, to guide them home. After passing here, they continued through a late snow storm, arriving at the site of Cardston on 3 June. With all forty settlers assembled there, that date was recognized as the founding of the community.” | Kenneth Mays
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The restored home of Charles Ora Card is shown in 2006. He led the first groups of members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from Utah to Canada and helped establish the community of Cardston in Alberta, Canada, in 1887. The C.O. Card house is on the Alberta Register of Historic Places and was designated a provincial historic resource in 1978.
The marker in the yard reads: “C. O. Card Home"
"This log house was built in autumn 1887 by Charles Ora Card who in that year led the first group of Mormons from Utah to Canada. It was one of the first buildings in the new townsite and remained for many years the center of Cardston’s development.” | Kenneth Mays
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This marker is in the yard of the restored home of Charles Ora Card and is shown in 2006. He led the first groups of members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from Utah to Canada and helped establish the community of Cardston in Alberta, Canada, in 1887. The C.O. Card house is on the Alberta Register of Historic Places and was designated a provincial historic resource in 1978.
The marker in the yard reads: “C. O. Card Home"
"This log house was built in autumn 1887 by Charles Ora Card who in that year led the first group of Mormons from Utah to Canada. It was one of the first buildings in the new townsite and remained for many years the center of Cardston’s development.” | Kenneth Mays
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This interpretive plaque is on the restored home of Charles Ora Card, shown in 2006. He led the first groups of members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from Utah to Canada and helped establish the community of Cardston in Alberta, Canada, in 1887. The C.O. Card house is on the Alberta Register of Historic Places and was designated a provincial historic resource in 1978.
The plaque reads: “In October of 1886, Charles Ora Card and two other Mormon elders from Utah camped at the mouth of Lee’s Creek. They had found what they were looking for, good land to homestead. The following year Card returned with ten families, and the Mormon colony that was to become known as Cardston had been established.
"These pioneers erected log houses as their first dwellings in Alberta. For many years the Card house was the social center for the community. ... The house was restored as part of the town’s golden jubilee celebrations in 1937.
"The house of Charles Ora Card was recommended for designation as a provincial historic resource on 18 January 1978, by the Hon. Horst A. Schmid, Minister of Culture.” | Kenneth Mays
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General view of Cardston, Alberta, Canada, as one approaches the area is shown in 2006. Charles Ora Card iled the first groups of members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from Utah to Canada and helped establish the community of Cardston in Alberta, Canada, in 1887. The C.O. Card house is on the Alberta Register of Historic Places and was designated a provincial historic resource in 1978. | Kenneth Mays
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The Cardston Alberta Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is shown in 2006. It was dedicated in 1923. | Kenneth Mays
In 1886, Cache Stake President Charles O. Card received permission from President John Taylor to investigate colonizing opportunities in southwestern Canada, and he took a group from Utah to explore the area.
The next year, he returned to Canada with 10 families and established a colony named Card’s Town. He was the first mayor, according to the Cardston Historical Society.
A historical marker in front of the Cards’ restored home notes “It was one of the first buildings in the new townsite and remained for many years the center of Cardston’s development.”
A monument on the outskirts of town marks the site where the first group of families entered Canada. “In a driving rain, each member of the group of eight families added a rock to the pile, and they all gave three cheers for their new home and religious freedom,” the plaque on the monument notes.
The view of the block in Toronto, Canada, in 2012, where John and Lenora Taylor’s home and wood-turning shop once stood. | Kenneth Mays
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Black Creek flows through Downsview Park, shown in 2012. The creek is where John and Lenora Taylor were baptized in 1836 by Parley P. Pratt. | Kenneth Mays
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Black Creek near Downsview Park is where John and Lenora Taylor were baptized in 1836 by Parley P. Pratt. It’s shown in 2012. | Kenneth Mays
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The view of the block in Toronto, Canada, in 2012, where John and Lenora Taylor’s home and wood-turning shop once stood. | Kenneth Mays
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Black Creek flows through Downsview Park, shown in 2012. The creek is where John and Lenora Taylor were baptized in 1836 by Parley P. Pratt. | Kenneth Mays
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Black Creek near Downsview Park is where John and Lenora Taylor were baptized in 1836 by Parley P. Pratt. It’s shown in 2012. | Kenneth Mays
When Parley P. Pratt arrived in Toronto, Ontario, in 1836, one of the places he visited was the home of John and Lenora Taylor. They had a wood-turning shop next to their home, according to the account in “Sacred Places, Vol. 1,” edited by LaMar C. Berrett.
The 68-story Scotia Tower and Plaza, and the Bank of Nova Scotia, in downtown Toronto now occupy the block where the Taylor home and shop once stood.
The Taylors and others, including Joseph Fielding and his sisters Mary and Mercy Fielding, were later baptized by Elder Pratt in the Black Creek near Downsview Park, in Toronto.
John Taylor later became the third president of the Church.
3. Farm of John and Jane Benbow, Castle Frome, England
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The home of John and Jane Benbow at Hill Farm near the village of Castle Frome, Herefordshire, England, is shown in 2011. The Benbows and others were baptized in the pond by Elder Wilford Woodruff in 1840. It is currently a private residence. | Kenneth Mays
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The home of John and Jane Benbow at Hill Farm near the village of Castle Frome, Herefordshire, England, is shown in 2018. The Benbows and others were baptized in the pond by Elder Wilford Woodruff in 1840. The stone hall at the far right was licensed for preaching, so Wilford Woodruff and others would have preached in that part of the home. It is currently a private residence. | Kenneth Mays
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The home of John and Jane Benbow at Hill Farm near the village of Castle Frome, Herefordshire, England, is shown in 2010 The Benbows and others were baptized in the pond by Elder Wilford Woodruff in 1840. It is currently a private residence. | Kenneth Mays
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The home of John and Jane Benbow at Hill Farm near the village of Castle Frome, Herefordshire, England, is shown in 2009. The Benbows and others were baptized in the pond by Elder Wilford Woodruff in 1840. The stone hall at the far right was licensed for preaching, so Wilford Woodruff and others would have preached in that part of the home. It is currently a private residence. | Kenneth Mays
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The home of John and Jane Benbow at Hill Farm near the village of Castle Frome, Herefordshire, England, is shown in 2009. The Benbows and others were baptized in the pond by Elder Wilford Woodruff in 1840. It is currently a private residence. | Kenneth Mays
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The pond near the home of John and Jane Benbow at Hill Farm near the village of Castle Frome, Herefordshire, England, is shown in 2010. The Benbows and others were baptized in the pond by Elder Wilford Woodruff in 1840. I | Kenneth Mays
Serving a mission in England, Elder Wilford Woodruff arrived March 4, 1840, at the home of John and Jane Benbow at Hill Farm near the village of Castle Frome, Herefordshire, England. He preached and spent the night there.
Days later, the Benbows and several others were baptized in a pond on the farm; dozens of people were baptized in the pond in 1840 and 1841. The influence and generosity of the Benbows were monumental in this chapter of the Church’s history.
While Elder Woodruff was in the Herefordshire area, he would frequently use the Benbow home as a base for missionary work.
The farm itself is privately owned, but the Church does own the pond, which is always open to the public.
This stream near Chatburn in the Ribble Valley in eastern Lancashire, England, shows the site where Elder Heber C. Kimball and his companions baptized many of the Latter-day Saints converts from Chatburn and Downham, which is about a mile away, and perhaps other places in the area. It is shown in 2010. | Kenneth Mays
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This stream near Chatburn in the Ribble Valley in eastern Lancashire, England, shows the site where Elder Heber C. Kimball and his companions baptized many of the Latter-day Saints converts from Chatburn and Downham, which is about a mile away, and perhaps other places in the area. It is shown in 2010. | Kenneth Mays
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This stream near Chatburn in the Ribble Valley in eastern Lancashire, England, shows the site where Elder Heber C. Kimball and his companions baptized many of the Latter-day Saints converts from Chatburn and Downham, which is about a mile away, and perhaps other places in the area. It is shown in 2010. | Kenneth Mays
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This stream near Chatburn in the Ribble Valley in eastern Lancashire, England, shows the site where Elder Heber C. Kimball and his companions baptized many of the Latter-day Saints converts from Chatburn and Downham, which is about a mile away, and perhaps other places in the area. It is shown in 2010. | Kenneth Mays
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This stream near Chatburn in the Ribble Valley in eastern Lancashire, England, shows the site where Elder Heber C. Kimball and his companions baptized many of the Latter-day Saints converts from Chatburn and Downham, which is about a mile away, and perhaps other places in the area. It is shown in 2010. | Kenneth Mays
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This stream near Chatburn in the Ribble Valley in eastern Lancashire, England, shows the site where Elder Heber C. Kimball and his companions baptized many of the Latter-day Saints converts from Chatburn and Downham, which is about a mile away, and perhaps other places in the area. It is shown in 2010. | Kenneth Mays
The village of Chatburn is in the Ribble Valley in eastern Lancashire, England, and other nearby villages include Clitheroe, Downham and Rimington. Elder Heber C. Kimball served two fruitful missions in Great Britain during which he labored in this area. The villages of Chatburn and Downham were remarkably productive.
5. The Gadfield Elm Chapel, Worcestershire, England
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The chapel at Gadfield Elm in Worcestershire, England, was initially build by the United Brethren. As most of them joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the chapel was deeded to the Church and was the site of the first Latter-day Saint worship services in England. It was restored by a private group and then donated to the Church in 2004. It is shown in 2011. | Kenneth Mays
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The chapel at Gadfield Elm in Worcestershire, England, was initially build by the United Brethren. As most of them joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the chapel was deeded to the Church and was the site of the first Latter-day Saint worship services in England. It was restored by a private group and then donated to the Church in 2004. It is shown in 2011. | Kenneth Mays
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The chapel at Gadfield Elm in Worcestershire, England, was initially build by the United Brethren. As most of them joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the chapel was deeded to the Church and was the site of the first Latter-day Saint worship services in England. It was restored by a private group and then donated to the Church in 2004. It is shown in 2009. | Kenneth Mays
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The chapel at Gadfield Elm in Worcestershire, England, was initially build by the United Brethren. As most of them joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the chapel was deeded to the Church and was the site of the first Latter-day Saint worship services in England. It was restored by a private group and then donated to the Church in 2004. It is shown in 2009. | Kenneth Mays
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The chapel at Gadfield Elm in Worcestershire, England, was initially build by the United Brethren. As most of them joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the chapel was deeded to the Church and was the site of the first Latter-day Saint worship services in England. It was restored by a private group and then donated to the Church in 2004. It is shown in 2010. | Kenneth Mays
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The chapel at Gadfield Elm in Worcestershire, England, was initially build by the United Brethren. As most of them joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the chapel was deeded to the Church and was the site of the first Latter-day Saint worship services in England. It was restored by a private group and then donated to the Church in 2004. It is shown in 2011. | Kenneth Mays
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The chapel at Gadfield Elm in Worcestershire, England, was initially build by the United Brethren. As most of them joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the chapel was deeded to the Church and was the site of the first Latter-day Saint worship services in England. It was restored by a private group and then donated to the Church in 2004. It is shown in 2011. | Kenneth Mays
The chapel at Gadfield Elm in Worcestershire, England, was initially built by the United Brethren in 1836, with room for 100 people.
As Elder Woodruff began sharing the gospel in the area where Worcestershire, Herefordshire and Gloucestershire meet, many people started joining the Church, including the Benbows and their neighbors. The Benbows and many of the United Brethren congregation joined the Church, and the chapel was deeded to the Church and was the site of the first Latter-day Saint worship services in England.
This marker near the Arizona-New Mexico-Mexico border is one of several markers placed on the approximate route of the Mormon Battalion and is shown in 2007. They passed this site just after exiting Guadalupe Pass and continued west in Mexico. | Kenneth Mays
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In the first part of December 1846 at a point near the Arizona-New Mexico-Mexico border, the Mormon Battalion route took them into present-day Mexico. They continued west until the route took them to roughly present-day Douglas, Arizona. This is the approximate site where the battalion came back into what is now the United States and is shown in 2007. Off in the distance is Palominos, Cochise, Arizona. | Kenneth Mays
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The terrain near the Arizona-New Mexico-Mexico border on the approximate route of the Mormon Battalionis shown in 2007. They passed this site just after exiting Guadalupe Pass and continued west in Mexico. | Kenneth Mays
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The end of Guadalupe Pass, a site where the actual route of the Mormon Battalion has been preserved, is shown in 2007 from the U.S. side of the Arizona-New Mexico-Mexico border. In the first part of December 1846, at a point near the Arizona-New Mexico-Mexico border, the Mormon Battalion route took them into present-day Mexico. | Kenneth Mays
The Mormon Battalion was mustered in July 1846 to help the United States in the Mexican American War. Battalion members helped create wagon roads as they marched nearly 2,000 miles from Council Bluffs, Iowa, to San Diego, California, through Mexican territory. The territory at the time included present-day California, Nevada, Utah and New Mexico and parts of Arizona and Colorado and other current U.S. states.
In December 1846, the route took them into present-day Mexico near the Arizona-New Mexico-Mexico border, through unforgiving dry terrain of rocks and desert scrub. The battalion continued west to roughly present-day Douglas, Arizona, and then started bearing northward back to the United States side of the border, where they eventually found the San Pedro River near Palominos, Cochise, Arizona.
The view of Neiafu, Vava’u, Tonga, from Mount Talau, the highest peak in the area is shown in 2016. Andrew Jensen, then assistant historian of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, stopped here in 1895 and also climbed the peak. | Kenneth Mays
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The new temple in Neiafu, Vava’u, Tonga, is being build next to Saineha High School, a Church-sponsored school. The school is shown in 2016. The groundbreaking for the temple was on Sept. 11, 2021. | Kenneth Mays
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Tongan members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and their friends celebrate the 100th anniversary of the preaching of the gospel in Tonga in 2016. The celebration was held on the Saineha school grounds. The new temple in Neiafu, Vava’u, Tonga, is being build next to Saineha High School. | Kenneth Mays
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The new temple in Neiafu, Vava’u, Tonga, is being build next to Saineha High School, a Church-sponsored school. The school is shown in 2016. The groundbreaking for the temple was on Sept. 11, 2021. | Kenneth Mays
In the island nation of Tonga, Vava’u is the northern cluster of islands, with Neiafu being one of the larger towns there. In 1895 — four years after the first Latter-day Saint missionaries arrived from Samoa — Andrew Jensen, assistant Church historian, was traveling from Fiji to Samoa and came to Tonga. He sailed to Vava’u and to Neiafu. On Aug. 20, 1895, he took a walk and climbed Mount Talau, the highest peak in the area. He recorded about the “magnificent view” and prayed there.
He visited other Tongan islands and returned to Neiafu a few weeks later with missionaries. On Sept. 9, 1895, he and the missionaries climbed Mount Talau, sang and knelt together and prayed.
When missionaries of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints landed at Nuku’alofa, Tonga, in the summer of 1891, they were able to rent rooms from Mr. Percival above a bakery. The balcony that overlooked the main intersection of Nuku’alofa and near the Parliament building. The Percival Building is shown in 2016. | Kenneth Mays
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When missionaries of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints landed at Nuku’alofa, Tonga, in the summer of 1891, they were able to rent rooms from Mr. Percival above a bakery. The balcony that overlooked the main intersection of Nuku’alofa and near the Parliament building. The Percival Building is shown in 2016. | Kenneth Mays
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When missionaries of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints landed at Nuku’alofa, Tonga, in the summer of 1891, they were able to rent rooms from Mr. Percival above a bakery. The balcony that overlooked the main intersection of Nuku’alofa and near the Parliament building. The Percival Building is shown in 2016. | Kenneth Mays
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The Nuku'alofa Tonga Temple is shown in 2016. | Kenneth Mays
Brigham Smoot and Alva Butler, the first missionaries to Tonga, arrived in the capital city of Nuku’alofa, on July 15, 1891. After some difficulty, they were able to rent an apartment above a bakery owned by Mr. Percival on the corner of Taufa’ahau Road and Salote Road. It had a balcony that overlooked the city’s main intersection and also watched the king pass by on his way to the Parliament Building. The missionaries were able to meet the kingdom’s leaders.
(See “Saints of Tonga” by Brent Reed Anderson, Fred Woods and Riley Moore Moffat and “LDS Church History Sites in the Kingdom of Tonga” by Moffat in Mormon Historical Studies, Spring and Fall 2016, Vol. 17.)
The building is still standing, has the balcony and looks much like it did in 1891.
Arthur’s Seat is a peak on an ancient volcano near Edinburgh, Scotland, and rises about 250 meters (about 820 feet) above sea level and is shown here in May 2010. While Orson Pratt was on a mission in Scotland, he would climb the peak and pray. | Kenneth Mays
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The monument on top of Arthur’s Seat, a peak on an ancient volcano near Edinburgh, Scotland, and rises about 250 meters (about 820 feet) above sea level, is shown here in May 2010. While Orson Pratt was on a mission in Scotland, he would climb the peak and pray. | Kenneth Mays
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The view from the top of Arthur’s Seat, a peak on an ancient volcano near Edinburgh, Scotland, and rises about 250 meters (about 820 feet) above sea level, is shown here in May 2010. While Orson Pratt was on a mission in Scotland, he would climb the peak and pray. | Kenneth Mays
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The view from partway up Arthur’s Seat, a peak on an ancient volcano near Edinburgh, Scotland, and rises about 250 meters (about 820 feet) above sea level, is shown here in May 2010. While Orson Pratt was on a mission in Scotland, he would climb the peak and pray. | Kenneth Mays
Arthur’s Seat is an ancient volcano and the main, rocky peak of the hills in Holyrood Park. It rises about 250 meters (about 820 feet) above sea level.
When members of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles served missions in the British Isles in the late 1830s and early 1840s, Orson Pratt went to Scotland. He noted the beauty of the area, including the surrounding summits. He would climb the rocky Arthur’s Seat — known as “Pratt’s Hill” among Latter-day Saints.
The marker for Abel Evans, who joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, in Merthyr Tydfil, Vales helped shared the gospel in Wales, immigrated to Utah and then later returned to Wales to serve a mission, is shown in 2011. He is buried in the Cefn Coed cemetery in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales. | Kenneth Mays
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A view of Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, in 2009. Abel Evans, who joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, in Merthyr Tydfil, helped shared the gospel in Wales, immigrated to Utah and then later returned to Wales to serve a mission, is buried in the Cefn Coed cemetery. | Kenneth Mays
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A view of the cemetery in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, in 2010. Abel Evans, who joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, in Merthyr Tydfil, Vales helped shared the gospel in Wales, immigrated to Utah and then later returned to Wales to serve a mission, is buried in this cemetery. | Kenneth Mays
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The marker for Abel Evans, who joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, in Merthyr Tydfil, Vales helped shared the gospel in Wales, immigrated to Utah and then later returned to Wales to serve a mission, is shown in 2011. He is buried in the Cefn Coed cemetery in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales. | Kenneth Mays
When the Latter-day Saint missionaries came to Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, Abel Evans was picked by the local nonconformists to debate them. By the end of the second debate, he found he couldn’t sustain the nonconformists’ arguments. He was later baptized as a member of the Church.
He served as a traveling missionary through North and South Wales. He emigrated to America in 1850, married Mary Jones and settled in Utah. He was called on a mission to Wales in 1865 and served as the president of the Welsh District. He developed a bad cough that affected his health. He worked until he died in November 1866 at Merthyr Tydfil. (See uk.churchofjesuschrist.org/elders-in-graveyards for more information.)
Bonus site: Henry Saville’s room, Merton College, Oxford, England
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The interior of the Henry Savile room at Merton College in Oxford, England, is shown in 2011. A group of translators including Henry Savile working on the King James Bible used his quarters at the school to work on the translation. | Kenneth Mays
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Merton College in Oxford, England, is shown in 2010. A group of translators including Henry Savile working on the King James Bible used his quarters at the school to work on the translation. | Kenneth Mays
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The exterior of the Henry Savile room at Merton College in Oxford, England, is shown in 2011. A group of translators including Henry Savile working on the King James Bible used his quarters at the school to work on the translation. | Kenneth Mays
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The interior of the Henry Savile room at Merton College in Oxford, England, is shown in 2011. A group of translators including Henry Savile working on the King James Bible used his quarters at the school to work on the translation. | Kenneth Mays
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The interior of the Henry Savile room at Merton College in Oxford, England, is shown in 2011. A group of translators including Henry Savile working on the King James Bible used his quarters at the school to work on the translation. | Kenneth Mays
Though not related to the Church’s history, it is connected to the translation of the King James Bible. Henry Saville was the warden of Merton College in Oxford, England, when he was a member of the Second Oxford Committee working to translate the Bible. The Second Oxford Committee was responsible for the Gospels, Acts and the book of Revelation. His group of translators met in his quarters at Merton College. (See kingjamesbibletranslators.org/bios/Henry_Savile/ for more information.)
— Photos by Kenneth Mays, who is a retired instructor in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ Department of Seminaries and Institutes. His image collection is available at catalog.ChurchofJesusChrist.org.
