British Pageant in Nauvoo celebrates pioneers in the British Isles

The British Pageant in historic Nauvoo, Illinois, celebrates the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the British Isles as missionaries worked to share the restored gospel. A combination of actors and family cast members perform in the Nauvoo and British pageants during several weeks in the summer in historic Nauvoo,

The British Pageant in historic Nauvoo, Illinois, celebrates the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the British Isles as missionaries worked to share the restored gospel. 

A combination of actors and family cast members perform in the Nauvoo and British pageants during several weeks in the summer in historic Nauvoo, Illinois. 

The British Pageant is narrated by an actor playing a character named Arthur Ashton, who explores the beginnings of the Church in the British Isles and the impact of the British members’ abiding faith. It is a shorter version of the pageant performed periodically in Chorley, England, including in August 2023. (See britishpageant.co.uk for information.) 

The Nauvoo Pageant is narrated by an actor portraying Parley P. Pratt, an early leader of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and shares the mission of the Prophet Joseph Smith and the sacrifice, faith and courage of the Saints who built the city and a temple to their God.

The pageants in Nauvoo are on alternate evenings from July 11 through Aug. 5, 2023 — the Nauvoo Pageant is on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays and the British Pageant is on Wednesdays and Fridays. 

A frontier-style Country Fair is prior to the Nauvoo and British Pageants in historic Nauvoo, Illinois, and includes 20 different 1840s style games and activities hosted by family cast members dressed in period costumes. 

Nauvoo is one of the communities where early members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints settled and built a temple, along with being the site of other key events in the Church’s history, before ultimately heading west to Utah. The Church has restored or rebuilt more than 20 historic buildings there. 

See NauvooHistoricSites.org and NauvooInfo.org for more information.

British Pageant

Country Fair

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