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The Mormon colonies in Mexico are settlements located near the Sierra Madre mountains in northern Mexico which were established by members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) beginning in 1885. [1]: 86–99 The colonists came to Mexico due to federal attempts to curb and prosecute polygamy in the United States.
Bridgemon, Rondal R. "Mennonites and Mormons in Northern Chihuahua, Mexico." Journal of the Southwest 54.1 (2012): 71–77. Dormady, Jason H., and Jared M. Tamez, eds. Just South of Zion: The Mormons in Mexico and Its Borderlands. University of New Mexico Press, 2015. Hardy, B. Carmon. "The trek south: How the Mormons went to Mexico."
"The Mexican Mormon War" (documentary on the Mormon vigilante militia fighting a drug cartel in Chihuahua). Vice.com. 2012. Bennion, Janet (2012). "The Church of the Firstborn of the 'Fulness' of Times (The LeBarons)". Polygamy in Primetime: Media, Gender, and Politics in Mormon Fundamentalism. Brandeis University Press. pp. 43– 50.
The Church of the Firstborn (or the "LeBarón family") is a grouping of competing factions of a Mormon fundamentalist polygamous family community that had settled in Chihuahua, Mexico, by Alma Dayer LeBaron Sr. by 1924.
Colonia Juárez is home to one of the LDS Church's temples. It was dedicated on March 6, 1999, by church president Gordon B. Hinckley. The Colonia Juárez Chihuahua Mexico Temple was one of the first of the smaller, standardized temples the LDS Church began constructing in the late 1990s, and is currently the smallest temple it operates.
In 1885, several church leaders rented 300 acres (1.2 km 2) of land in northern Chihuahua, and Mormon members began to plant crops. Other Mormon families from Utah and Arizona soon joined their fledgling community. Six weeks after the original settlers began to cultivate the area, the colonists numbered 350.
The Ciudad Juárez Mexico Temple is the 71st operating temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). [3] [4]The Ciudad Juárez Mexico Temple is located in the border city of Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, [5] [6] and serves about 12,000 church members in northern Mexico and the adjacent U.S. state of Texas.
The Colonia Juárez Chihuahua Mexico Temple is the 55th operating temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).. On a hill just west of the little town of Colonia Juárez, in the Mexican state of Chihuahua, and overlooking a fertile valley, sits the first of the smaller LDS temples to be completed outside of the United States.