I stopped here coming home from my mission with my parents and my two younger sisters. We had a great time here. It was humbling to know that we had a great time. I cant remember the while thing but it was way better than going across the street. That other place I went to had mixed feelings for me. But when I got back outside and knowing that I served a great mission.I felt so much better to know that I was raised in Gods ways to live righteously. I have trials but I look back that gained a true testimony of my savior. My mission really changed me especially feeling a great attitude in the building I looked here in at the Visitor Center. It was a great opportunity to see how much I have grown. I would love to go back and see this place again.

Amazing displays, knowledgeable staff, and in-depth looks into mid American colonial life in the 19th century. The Christus is beautiful and the tour was will worth it.Id recommend this place to anyone, religious or otherwise.

Excellent repository of indignation about the history of the Church in the Independence era. The sister missionaries were very knowledgeable and did everything right.

Such a wonderful experience! The missionaries are so helpful and kind and you can learn a lot about the history of the church here. Anyone who wants to learn about the history of the church and area should come here

This is a great place to learn about early LDS history and Mormonism. It is free of cost and you can have a guided tour or look around on your own. Kids area as well. Updated exhibits and movies as of July 2018.

I love visiting! They have two different interractive tours for anyone interested in the history of Missouri, religious persecution in the past and the history of the Latter-day Saints. One is focused on families, and another purely on history. Its definitely interesting! I highly recommend it!

Really enjoyed our visit here! The missionaries do a great job giving you a tour!

First thing you see when you walk in its a giant statue of Jesus Christ, arms held out in a welcoming gesture. As it is a visitors center for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, there are a number of presentations of the Churchs history, as well as the Plan of Salvation, many with life-sized replicas of pioneer scenes. Its a place of peace and good feeling, with sister missionaries to guide you through the various presentations, or you can walk through and press buttons to view many of them on your own.

The best place to visit in Independence to learn more about the restoration of the gospel of Jesus Christ in the latter-days. Wonderful missionaries will give you a complimentary tour and answer all of your questions. A must see is youre in the area or interested in the history of the Church.

Being a visitor from overseas, the displays, activities and historic photo galleries were fantastic. A great place to learn the history and events that occurred in this region during the early years of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Beautiful place where you can see the plan heavenly father has for families. You are always greeted with people who truly love the Lord and you. They desire nothing more than you to experience the Love our Father has for you and to let you know, families are forever!

Very interesting. Enjoyed learning more about the history of the area. The staff was very helpful and very kind. Took us about two hours to visit.

What a wonderful feeling I felt there. I could feel how much God loves all of his children. I wish I had been able to bring my children when they were young to feel it. Wonderful! Thank you for all that sacrifice to teach there. God bless you all.

Closed temporally until further notice. All Church Historic Sites in the USA are now closed. Sorry for the inconvenience!

Great experience learning about Latter-Day Saint History. I would recommend this to anyone interested in American or Religious history as well. Awesome place to stop by and visit.

Fun and interactive for the kids downstairs. Cute shorts videos about the family and scripture prophets. Wonderful and kind missionaries to guide you through.

Wonderful stop on our trip, kids loved it. The Church of Christ across the street has a lovely temple and other miscellaneous buildings as well and, although they were closed as we were there late, offered to open some up for us.

Provides tangible and intriguing Mormon/Joseph Smith history, though to non-members it can appear to be a cult like experience.

The missionary guides were super helpful, and we felt really good while listening to the history that happened here. Make sure to check out the basement, it’s where the coolest stuff is.

Free friendly staff good information. Very cool

Lots of available photos and history. Guided tours are very informative.

Great information about the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints! Missionaries did a great job explaining and guiding through. Great place to visit and experience the calm and peacefulness of our Savior!

Way more an important visit than I had initially thought. Definitely make this part of your church history tour!

The displays were beautiful and I loved all the short videos worked into them. The history part downstairs was very interesting too.

Quiet place that has some neat history, with guided tours.

Friendly people offer tours and their knowledge willingly.

Great place to find out about the Mormon pioneers who lived in the area. Amazing, kind your guides.

Only had 15 minutes to pop in here before heading to the airport, but it was beautiful and peaceful and I could feel the spirit as the sister missionary shared some of the experiences and trials of the saints that lived there. Despite all they were going through, many said they were so happy and that never had there been a happier people. Perspective and righteous priorities can bring true happiness!

Very informative! Spiritually uplifting! Worth the visit!

Great tour guides and exhibits. I also like how instead of trying to take about things that were not their strength they recommended that visitors who were interested in learning more about the Community of Christs religious beliefs should visit there site and discuss it with them. Great visit.

Historically accurate and a great place to visit. A favorite.

Very beautiful and humble experience!!! There is so much value here that is Available to all and thats a huge blessing.

Great history about the Mormons in Independence and the trials they had.

This is a beautiful visitors Center with a lot of information on the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.The missionaries that staff this center are incredibly friendly. You wont regret a visit here.

Uplift the heart and mind with true history of independence, Mo

Amazing place for all ages. Come and learn about the history of not just the Latter day saints but American history. Very educational and kid friendly.

Well worth the time to gain understanding of the restoration of the gospel of Jesus Christ; the faith and challenges early saints exhibited and endured under harsh and hostile conditions; and the remarkable miracles manifested in charitable, compassionate, kind and tender acts of love granted by God and given by those within and without the early restored church. Those who provide guidance or tours are missionaries of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day saints and will share their witness and testimonies of the restored gospel and the truths contained there in, so dont be offended when they do. You may ask them how they came to know and the path and experience that led them to this knowledge...

Very friendly and helpful. It was great to learn about the history there and their faith in God

Great place to spend an hour with the family. Educational and informative. Best part is they dont actively try and convert you.

Stopped here on a cross country road trip. It was a beautiful, welcoming place with activities for the kids.

We went mid day Friday, Nov 30th and were among the few there touring. The tour guides were very attentive and friendly. I was impressed with their knowledge for how young they were. They were flexible too, the tour was 45 minutes but we only had a short time there so they took us to the parts that would be the most meaningful to us.

So interesting learning and seeing more about the People who were persecuted for their religious beliefs. Shocking to hear of such inhumanity and hatred.

Very cool visitor center. Lots of great info on the early settlers in the area

Loved the LDS history and tour guids were excellent!

The visitors center is very informative on the religious as well as history of Independence.

Very helpful people with a good message.

I love going here. They are so happy and I leave feeling so so happy! The winter hours are shorter I think 10am to 7pm instead of 9am to 9pm but call and double check. The hours are on a sheet of paper on the front door too.

Very nice place to visit and get information on early church history

We got so much great information at this center, especially about the area. It was exciting to hear from the Sister Missionaries, who where so helpful and then the Senior Missionaries when we walked through the picture room.

Great visitors center. A look back into some of the history of Independence, Missouri.

Amazing place! It is free to visit and the tour guides were excellent. Gives visitors a glimpse back in time into life in the 1800s and gives insight into the beginnings of the Mormon church.

Extremely satisfied...worth the trip and really had a great feeling there.

Wonderful visitor center with interactive games, presentations, photos, sculptures and art. Very informative and a great spirit there.

We had two wonderful sister missionaries give us a tour of the place. It was delightful.

Great place to learn about Mormon church great missionaries and very great people

This place is amazing! If you want to have a better understanding of what members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints experienced when they came to Missouri, this is the place to go!

Really nice people, interesting displays, great videos

Beautiful statue of Jesus Christ and wonderful learning activities. A great stop if you havent been.

We had a very good experience here. There is an excellent presentation about family which refers to life after death which took about 20 minutes. We also enjoyed the historical presentation which took about 40 minutes. The guides were knowledgeable and very friendly.

Our two year old could have stayed there forever. They had a little playroom full of toys that represented what the pioneers had and she thought it was the best. It was just what we needed to break up our road trip. I just wish we could have spent more time there for us.

You can feel the spirit of Heavenly Father as soon as you enter

This LDS Church owned visitors center covers the historical events from the mid-1800s when Mormons were building a community in the area before pushing westward. Independence is an important site for Mormon theology as well, although most of the focus is on the historical events. Its not a very large center but the missionaries are attentive and willing to share emotional experiences about their churchs and their own personal perspectives on the relevance of the events in the area. All visitors are welcome and although the center clearly has the intent of offering opportunities to proselytize, the staff isnt overbearing about it.

Interesting history and friendly people.

Great displays on history of the area.

This is a beautiful building with such a peaceful feeling. Area history and faith based tours available. The missionaries here are so friendly, helpful and knowledgeable. They show videos and have a childrens play area too! This is a great place to go to on a hot day.

It was very nice here. Hard to believe it was the middle of the city. The young lady who took our family on tour was helpful and informative. Parking was easy. Getting here was a bit hard but the streets are so cluttered (heavy city setting) we might have missed the signage directing us.

Very cool place to visit.

Great experience. The videos are very interesting.

They give great tours downstairs

Not the visitor center for the city of Independence. Still very interesting and informative about the Church of Latter Day Saints

Changing some displays, adding more displays, growing closer to GOD through worship. Friendly people and a great store!

A free opportunity to learn more about the local history of the Kansas City area. They have informed and friendly people to answer your questions and give tours. Also there is a Kids Corner where the kids can load a wagon and playing a little Log Cabin.

One lady was very rude. Older lady doing her mission ask me to take my dog out I have PTSD and need my dog how Rude...

Very Friendly visitors center with a guided tour. Tour guides are Sister Missionaries from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. They give a great presentation on the importance of families upstairs and then another informative presentation on a bit of Mormon pioneer history from the area. It was very peaceful in the visitors center. It felt like a place where when you walk through the round glass revolving door, you enter a different world. The beautiful statue of the Savior is the focal point. Although not a musuem, it has some museum like features. The guided tour is essential and not invasive or over bearing. Downstairs, be sure to check out the childrens discovery area, as well as a self-guided photo gallery from the early 20th century depicting many church history sites.You will leave the visitors center feeling enlightened, rejuvenated and calm.Allow about an hour for the guided tours and perhaps 15 minutes or more for photos and self-discovery areas. Enjoy!

It was very informative.

You can tell as soon as you walk in that you are welcome here and that the volunteers love what they do. This is a great place to take in both a little history and fellowship

The missionaries are always so nice and helpful. My kids liked playing with the little cabin, wagon, and pioneer to at the end of the tour. Need to update a display that showed the 12 apostles. Not the current 12.

Loved it! Have to go back.

A touchy-feely series of panoramas, displays, kiosks, and statues showing the history, doctrine, and practices of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter~Day Saints.

We LOVED our visit. Sister Thompson did a great job with the tour, especially helping our kids to appreciate the importance of faith during trials.

A place to grow more spiritually from. A peaceful place to learn of Jesus Christ and His life.

Wonderful place to visit to find out about the Mormon church. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. You always feel the spirit of God there.

One of my most favored places to go visit. These people are so friendly and so nice and so happy they are just so wonderful. IT is a Great place to visit for local history as well as their church history which is amazing. They are great people so wonderfully clean and friendly.

Loved the missionaries. Great visit.

As a member of the church if you have any questions about them,go and visit the Sisters and or elders and they will fill you up with knowledge of heavenly father and his son Jesus Christ our Lord and savior of this world

Very own and friendly atmosphere that is well kept up and feels inviting. They have a lot of good displays about the LDS church in general, and some about the history as well. I wish they had more about the history specially in independence, but overall I had a good experience here.

Great family friendly place clean rest rooms

Good information shared by wonderful missionaries!

Great show but too short!

Nice, friendly people with great information.

Wonderful place. A must visit.

Amazing place to learn about church history!

Very sweet people here; you can learn about a piece of American history.

Super neat to learn Adam Ondi Ahman and The New Jerusalem are not the same place. My bad! Really neat if I live to see the before and afters of the temple being built and tell my grand kids about it one day. Great place to bring your family and learn.

Had a great time. The missionaries guiding the tour did a great job.

Building was visible and easily accessible to parking and entrance. Once inside was greated quickly. Inside of building was very clean and orderly. Was treated with great respect and concern for my wishes and needs. The staff was ample and knowledgeable. Recommend others intetested in additional knowledge or questions of the LDS faith to visit this place. May take more than a single visit to meet ones needs.

Its really sad theyre attempting to make independence seem like some destiny location but look around the center and you see where the Devil has been busy. Independence houses dumpster up entire city while drugs run rampant in the schools. Liquor stores, buy here pay here car lots and cash checking business are the only commerce and take full advantage of the poor. Dont hype up a city that has a pop. of 3,088 homeless people camp in Fairmont area and thats just one area of the city while the churches walk around knocking on doors but not helping the needy. Its a sad attempt at creating a history that currently isnt how the city reflects itself currently.

Wonderful experience, uplifting and informative, a truly positive experience

Great people here to help answer questions and so knowledgeable. What a wonderful spirit and atmosphere.

Awesome, neat place. The missionaries were great.