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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 chronology outlines the major events in the history of the Book of Mormon, according to the text.Dates given correspond to dates in the footnotes of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) edition of the Book of Mormon and to a Jaredite timeline proposed by Latter-Day Saint scholar John L. Sorenson.
Mormons see Jesus Christ as the premier figure of their religion.. The Latter Day Saint movement (also called the LDS movement, LDS restorationist movement, or Smith–Rigdon movement) [1] is the collection of independent church groups that trace their origins to a Christian Restorationist movement founded by Joseph Smith in the late 1820s.
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 ...
Public awareness grew when the Star-Telegram began to include the Latter-day Saints in its “Sunday Church Service Listings.” Local Mormons worshiped in the Elks Hall at 311½ Main St ...
[2] As Jan Shipps has written, "Mormonism, unlike other modern religions, is a faith cast in the form of history," and until after World War II, Mormons did not critically examine the historical underpinnings of their faith; any "profane" investigation of the church's history was perceived "as trespassing on forbidden ground."