Alma 23:2; 26:29 (constructed before 77 B.C.)

The four sons of Mosiah and their fellow brethren taught the Lamanites in the land of Nephi by entering “into their houses,” and “into their temples and their synagogues” (Alma 23:2; 26:29). This “free access” to the Lamanite temples was granted by “decree” of the converted king of the Lamanites, the father of king Lamoni (Alma 22:27; 23:1–2). There is no mention of the materials that were used to construct these temples, nor if they were built by the Lamanites or by the Nephites, who some 100 years before abandoned this same land of Nephi under the direction of king Mosiah (the first) and traveled northward to the land of Zarahemla (Omni 1:5–19). King Mosiah (the first) was the great-grandfather of the sons of Mosiah.