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18106
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English
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Creating a Mormon Mecca in England : The Gadfield Elm Chapel
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Mormon Historical Studies
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2006
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1-2
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89-101
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Members of the United Brethren were converted to the Mormon Church by Elder Wilford Woodruff. As a result, their chapel, the Gadfield Elm Chapel, was the first meetinghouse owned by the Church. It was sold when members left for Zion and fell into ruins. Members of the Church, mostly from Great Britain, purchased it in 1994 and created the Gadfield Elm Trust to oversee its restoration. In 2004 the Trust gave the chapel to the Church. This chapel is a sacred site to British members of the Church. It connects them to their past and to the general Church, and it allowed the British Saints to take "ownership of their own history." The chapel became a sacred, historic site due to the actions of the members in England, not because the institutional Church declared it to be so.
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