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An 1841 engraving of Cumorah (looking south), where Joseph Smith said he was given golden plates by an angel named Moroni, on the west side, near the peak.. Cumorah (/ k ə ˈ m ɔːr ə /; [2] also known as Mormon Hill, [3] [4] [5] Gold Bible Hill, [6] [7] and Inspiration Point) [3] is a drumlin in Palmyra, New York, United States, [8] where Joseph Smith said he found a set of golden plates ...
The pageant traces its roots to the early 1920s and the "Cumorah Conference" of the Eastern States Mission, [4] which was held each year annually in late July. Mission president B. H. Roberts would take some of his missionaries from New York City and travel to Palmyra and the recently acquired Smith Family Farm to celebrate Pioneer Day, acting out scenes from the Book of Mormon and LDS Church ...
Canandaigua, Town Of, New York: 8 Miles North, Route 21 Cumorah Famous Mormon Hill And Angel Moroni Monument 7: HERENDEEN HOMESTEAD On Co. Rd. About 2½ Miles South Of Farmington Farmington, Town Of, New York: 1832. Entrance Porch Added By Josephine Herendeen 1932 8: GANECHSTAGE On White Spring Rd. At The West Limits Of City. Geneva, City Of ...
Before Mormon's death in battle, he passed the golden plates to Moroni. Moroni then finished writing on the plates and concluded the record, presumably burying them in the hill Cumorah in western New York. [39] He is the namesake of the Book of Moroni in the Book of Mormon.
Smith received golden plates from the angel Moroni at the Hill Cumorah. Replica of a cabin at the Peter Whitmer Farm, Fayette (Waterloo), New York where the LDS Church was organized. The early history of the LDS Church is deeply rooted in the state of New York with pivotal moments taking place in upstate New York and New York City.
This record was later abridged by Mormon and inscribed onto gold plates from which Joseph Smith translated the Book of Mormon after an angel revealed to him the location where the plates were buried on a hill called Cumorah near the town of Palmyra, New York.
The Cumorah in the Book of Mormon narrative is claimed by many believers to be the same land containing the modern "Hill Cumorah" near Joseph Smith's home in Palmyra, western New York, [3] from whence the gold plates of the Book of Mormon were retrieved. Others view the modern "Hill Cumorah" to be distinct from the original, and simply to have ...
Mormon wrote the history of his people on the Golden plates before he died during a battle on the Hill Cumorah. His son, Moroni, added his own words and the Book of Ether to the record. Moroni hid and protected the Golden plates at the Hill Cumorah. For a possible map look at Image:Book of Mormon Lands and Sites2.jpg.