- Alternate Names
- Store
Storehouse
Summary
Both a literal and a figurative repository for goods and land donated to the church. The book of Malachi directed the house of Israel to bring “all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house.” In JS’s revision of the Old Testament, an addition to Genesis, chapter 14, named Abram [Abraham] the “high Priest and keeper of the store house of God,” explaining that Abram was to “receive tithes for the poor.” On 20 July 1831, a revelation directed Sidney Gilbert to “establish a store” in Independence, Missouri, so that he could “obtain provisions” for church members. Newel K. Whitney was also instructed to use his store in Kirtland to generate funds for building the city of Zion. The two stores were to be used both as retail businesses and as storehouses for the church. Storehouses were designed to assist the poor, especially widows and their children, with material goods. Bishops and agents of the church were directed to collect and redistribute goods from the storehouses according to church members’ needs and wants. The United Firm’s mercantile component was responsible for managing the storehouses from 1832 to 1834. Donating any goods and services to the church could also be referred to as giving to the storehouse.
Links
- History, 1838–1856, volume A-1 [23 December 1805–30 August 1834]
- Covenant, 29 November 1834
- Letter from Oliver Cowdery, 28 January 1832
- Letter to Church Leaders in Jackson County, Missouri, 25 June 1833
- Letter to Edward Partridge, 2 May 1833
- Letter to Emma Smith, 13 October 1832
- Letterbook 1
- Minutes, 17 March 1834
- Minutes, 7 November 1837
- Nauvoo Relief Society Minute Book
- Plat of the City of Zion, circa Early June–25 June 1833
- Revelation Book 1
- Revelation Book 2
- Revelation, 1 March 1832 [D&C 78]
- Revelation, 12 November 1831 [D&C 70]
- Revelation, 20 May 1831 [D&C 51]
- Revelation, 22–23 September 1832 [D&C 84]
- Revelation, 26 April 1832 [D&C 82]
- Revelation, 30 April 1832 [D&C 83]
- Revelation, 4 December 1831–B [D&C 72:9–23]
- Revelation, 8 March 1833 [D&C 90]
- Revelation, 9 February 1831 [D&C 42:1–72]
- Revelation, between circa 8 and circa 24 March 1832
- Revelations printed in Evening and Morning Star, January 1835–June 1836
- Revelations printed in The Evening and the Morning Star, June 1832–June 1833
- Revised Plat of the City of Zion, circa Early August 1833