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The President of the Church, Wilford Woodruff, proclaimed the end of Polygamy in the 1890 Manifesto. 1893 The Salt Lake Temple was dedicated on 6 April, exactly forty years after construction began. 1894 The Family History Library was founded on 13 November. 1896 Utah became a state of the United States on 4 January.
The Latter Day Saint movement arose in the Palmyra and Manchester area of western New York, where its founder Joseph Smith was raised during a period of religious revival in the early 19th century called the Second Great Awakening, a Christian response to the secularism of the Age of Enlightenment which extended throughout the United States, particularly the frontier areas of the west.
These peoples were called "Lamanites", because they were all believed to descend from the Lamanite group in the Book of Mormon. In 1947, the church began the Indian Placement Program, where Native American students (upon request by their parents) were voluntarily placed in Anglo Latter-day Saint foster homes during the school year, where they ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 14 February 2025. There is 1 pending revision awaiting review. Largest Mormon church "Mormon Church" redirects here. For the overarching religious tradition, see Mormonism. "Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints" redirects here. For the original church founded by Joseph Smith, see Church of Christ ...
Because of the distinct belief in the Book of Mormon among Smith's followers, people outside the church began to refer them as "Mormonites" or "Mormons." Smith and other church elders considered the name "Mormon" derogatory. [39] In May 1834, the church adopted a resolution that the church would be known thereafter as "The Church of the Latter ...
According to Smith, the Book of Mormon and other revelations would be the means of establishing correct doctrine for a restored church. Smith began baptizing new converts in 1829, and formally organized the Church of Christ in 1830. [16] Smith was seen by his followers as a modern-day prophet. [17]
During the early years of the church, Mormons concentrated on telling providential history as they had been commanded to do by Joseph Smith. [30] Church clerks compiled a history of the Latter-day Saint movement, weaving the accounts of various people together "into a seamless narrative as though Smith himself were speaking."
[20] [better source needed] The term Mormon later was sometimes used derogatorily; such use may have developed during the 1838 Mormon War, [21] although church members and leaders "embraced the term", according to church historian Matthew Bowman, and by the end of the 1800s it was broadly used.