Liberty Jail
Coordinates: 39°14′55″N 94°25′15″W / 39.248523°N 94.420753°W
Liberty Jail is a former jail in Liberty, Missouri, United States, where Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, and other associates were imprisoned from December 1, 1838, to April 6, 1839, during the 1838 Mormon War. Latter Day Saints sometimes described it as a "prison temple" because of revelations received during Smith's imprisonment there, which are now recorded as sections 121, 122, and 123 of the LDS Doctrine and Covenants.
The site at 216 North Main, two blocks northwest of the Clay County courthouse in downtown Liberty, is now owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), which operates a visitors' center featuring an indoor, cut-away reconstruction of the jail on the original site.
Followers of Joseph Smith from Kirtland, Ohio, were among the first settlers in the Kansas City metropolitan area, locating about 15 miles (24 km) southeast of the jail site in Independence, Jackson County, Missouri, in 1831. After Smith proclaimed that Independence was the location of the biblical Garden of Eden and the City of Zion should be located there, settlers in the area feared that they would lose political control of the county to the growing numbers of immigrating Mormons. Tensions led to violence when a battle between the two groups broke out on the banks of the Blue River (Missouri). In November 1833, the Mormons were violently driven from Independence and compelled to resettle temporarily in Clay County.
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