Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel
Keywords
BYU Jerusalem Center, Missionary Graves, Church Recognition
Document Type
Article
Abstract
Many Latter-day Saints have heard the story that graves of Latter-day Saint missionaries who died and were buried in Haifa, Israel, made possible Brigham Young University’s Jerusalem Center for Near Eastern Studies. The story goes like this: The graves of missionaries who died in the 1890s provided evidence of a Latter-day Saint presence in the Holy Land before the creation of the State of Israel in 1948, which evidence was required for the Church to be recognized in Israel and/or for BYU to obtain approval for the construction of the Jerusalem Center.
The story is not true.
BYU ScholarsArchive Citation
Jackson, Kent P. "The Haifa, Israel, Missionary Graves and the BYU Jerusalem Center." Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel 22, no. 1 (2021). https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/re/vol22/iss1/10