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Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Quick Facts

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Also Known As Mormonism • LDS
Date 1830 - present
Headquarters Salt Lake City
Areas Of Involvement Christianity • millennialism • revelation • Second Coming
Related People Eliza Roxey Snow Smith • Wilford Woodruff

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Mormon temple
Joseph Smith and Moroni
Brigham Young migrating to Salt Lake City, Utah
westward migration
temple, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
The Idaho Falls Idaho Temple, a white multi-tiered Mormon temple with a spire, stands behind trees along the Snake River and a small waterfall in Idaho Falls.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
World map using color-coded regions to show the predominant religions in each area during the early 1980s. Christianity, Islam (Sunni and Shi'i), Buddhism, Hinduism, Chinese and Japanese religions, Eastern Orthodoxy, Protestantism, Roman Catholicism, Sikhism, indigenous religions, Judaism, nonreligious populations, and uninhabited areas are all represented by different colors and symbols, with a legend explaining each. The map highlights religious majorities by region, such as Christianity in th
Salt Lake City and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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