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Cumorah
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thumb|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 () is a drumlin in Manchester, New York, United States, where Joseph Smith said he found a set of golden plates which he also said he translated into English and published as the Book of Mormon.
Key facts
- Mountain.name
- Cumorah
- Mountain.photo
- File:Hill-cumorah-crop.jpg
- Mountain.photo_caption
- Photograph of the hill by George Edward Anderson, 1907
- Mountain.location
- Manchester, Ontario County, New York, U.S.
- Mountain.topo
- USGS Clifton Springs
- Mountain.map
- New York Adirondack Park#USA
- Mountain.map_caption
- Location of Cumorah within New York
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
16 sectionsContents
- New York
- Supposed location of the plates
- Book of Mormon
- Nephites
- Jaredites
- Geography and historicity
- New York hill
- Cerro El Vigia
- Alternative origin of the name
- Alternate LDS archaeological view
- Popular culture
- Literary interpretation
- Pageant
- Notes
- Works cited
- External links
thumb|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 () is a drumlin in Manchester, New York, United States, where Joseph Smith said he found a set of golden plates which he also said he translated into English and published as the Book of Mormon.
In the text of the Book of Mormon, "Cumorah" is a hill located in a land of the same name, which is "a land of many waters, rivers and fountains". In this hill, a Book of Mormon figure, Mormon, deposited a number of metal plates containing the record of his nation of Nephites, just prior to their final battle with the Lamanites in which at least 230,000 people were killed.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cumorah” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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