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The University of Utah (the U, U of U, or simply Utah) [12] is a public research university in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States.It was established in 1850 as the University of Deseret [13] by the General Assembly of the provisional State of Deseret, [1] 25 years before Brigham Young University and making it Utah's oldest institution of higher education. [14]
The following is the percentage of Christians and all religions in the U.S. territories as of 2015 (according to the ARDA): [62] Note that CIA World Factbook data differs from the data below. For example, the CIA World Factbook says that 99.3% of the population in American Samoa is religious. [63]
The United States Census Bureau estimates that the population of Utah was 3,205,958 on July 1, 2019, a 16.00% increase since the 2010 United States census. [3] The center of population of Utah is located in Utah County in the city of Lehi. [4] As of April 1, 2010 the 2010 census indicated that Utah had a population of 2,763,885. [5]
The U of U is the flagship university of the state of Utah, a state known for its substantial Latter-day Saint population, while BYU is the flagship university of the LDS Church. The matchup has been described as taking on religious, or "church vs. state" undertones.
Early Mormons fled to present-day Utah – which was a Mexican territory at the time – to escape religious persecution and the Missouri Governor's extermination order, arriving in the Salt Lake Valley in 1847. [3] For the first two decades following the settlement, most schools were run through church institutions. [1]
St. George Stake Academy (founded 1911), now Utah Tech University. [24] The LDS Church also established formal colleges and universities: University of Nauvoo was a community resource for academic learning established by the Nauvoo charter. University of Deseret (1850), now the University of Utah [25] Brigham Young College in Logan, Utah (1877 ...
The list of religious populations article provides a comprehensive overview of the distribution and size of religious groups around the world. This article aims to present statistical information on the number of adherents to various religions, including major faiths such as Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and others, as well as smaller religious communities.
W. Paul Reeve (born July 27, 1968) is an American historian and Simmons Professor of Mormon Studies and History in the History Department at the University of Utah. He became chair of the History Department on 1 July 2022. [1] [2] Reeve is an influential scholar of Mormon race history and Utah history. [3] [4] [5]