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David L. Bigler quotes in his book “The Forgotten Kingdom,” of the April, 1853 events “A blue and white banner with stripes and twelve stars encircling a single large star was unfurled to the breeze.” See also the Desert News April 16, 1853, Minutes of General Conference. For additional information on The Flag of the Kingdom of God (The Church Flag™) read D. Michael Quinn’s article “The Flag of the Kingdom of God.” BYU Studies 14 (Autumn 1973) p. 105-114.

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It was decided to hoist a striped flag on the temple tower when the officers of the Nauvoo Legion were to muster..."

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Displaying the kingdom's flag on the sacred hill for the first July 24th celebration, in 1849, was an important event. LDS had displayed an LDS flag in several locations that day as Brigham Young records. "My flag that used to fly on the Nauvoo temple was hoisted on the east side of the bowery." Several journals record that on that day, "During the first Pioneer Day celebration in 1849, Mormon pioneers also unfurled a special banner on its summit, which they called 'the Flag of the Kingdom' or the 'Flag of Deseret."

(Above:Left, the deathmask of the Prophet Joseph Smith. Center, photo of President Brigham Young. Right, Salt Lake Temple and fountain.)

An LDS Flag (called various names, including The Flag of the Kingdom of God, Standard to the Nations, Standard of Peace, Ensign to the World, Deseret National Flag, The Church Flag, etc.) was displayed by the church when the corner stones of the Salt Lake Temple were laid, as referenced in the Deseret News conference report of April 1853. An LDS Flag, "a blue-and-white banner with stripes and twelve stars encircling a single large star, was unfurled to the breeze"

An LDS Flag is also referenced in songs of the church. High On A Mountain Top A Banner is Unfurled, Ye Nations Now Look Up It Waves To All The World! (Joel H. Johnson, 1853).

[An LDS Flag] (called various names, including The Flag of the Kingdom of God, Standard to the Nations, Standard of Peace, Ensign to the World, Deseret National Flag, The Church Flag, etc.) was displayed by the church when the corner stones of the Salt Lake Temple were laid, as referenced in the Deseret News conference report of April 1853. An LDS Flag, "a blue-and-white banner with stripes and twelve stars encircling a single large star, was unfurled to the breeze"

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In September 1877, an account of the LDS Flag being displayed was described by a visiting Californian: "Utah history states that the flag known as the Stars and Stripes was placed on Ensign Peak about the twenty-ninth day of July 1847. The so-called flag of the Stars and Stripes placed there on that occasions was a flag having in it's upper left hand corner… a circle of twelve stars and in the center… a large star. The strips on that flag, instead of being red and white stripes, were blue and white stripes and it was to be the flag denoting Mormon sovereignty over an area that they had now taken possession of… During Brigham Young's Funeral this flag hung from a second story window of Heber C. Kimball's residence."