Mormonism

People were persecuting them.

The Mormons left Illinois because Brigham Young, the new Mormon leader, heard about a great valley in the Utah desert, which at the time was still owned by Mexico. In 1847, he led a party of Mormons on a long, hazardous journey to the valley of the Great Salt Lake.

The Illinois government asked the Mormons to leave because their presence was causing too much unrest in the state.

Under their new leader Brigham Young the decision to leave Illinois was due directly to the murder of original Mormon Joseph Smith and his brother by a mob that attacked the jail where the two brothers were being held.

This depends on if by 'church' you mean meetinghouse buildings or congregations. The number of both is changing on almost a weekly basis as new buildings are being built and new congregations are being formed, but we can get a good estimate this way:

There are 170 stakes in the Salt Lake Valley (by adding up the stakes in the Salt Lake, Jordan River, Draper, and Oquirrh Mountain Temple districts). A stake in the Salt Lake Valley generally has 3 buildings with 3 congregations meeting in each building.

Most stakes have 3 buildings, some have 2 and some have 4. So if by churches you mean buildings, 170 stakes x 3 buildings each is 510 church buildings. Most stakes have 9 congregations, some have as few as 7 while others have as many as 12. So if by churches you mean congregations, 170 stakes x 9 congregations each is 1530 LDS congregations. So, in the Salt Lake Valley, there are 170 Stakes, approximately 510 church buildings, and approximately 1530 congregations. If you need an official count, you can contact the Church through the contact information provided in the "Related Link" found below.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the "Mormon" church) does not publish membership statistics for any area smaller than a state. However, I do know that the Salt Lake City metro area has many more Mormons (both in actual numbers and percentage) than the Boise metro area. I would assume, with Salt Lake City proper having a higher population and being the headquarters of the Church, that it has more Mormons than Boise.

The Mormon pioneers were run out of Ohio by mobs, forced out of Missouri by government extermination order, and told to leave Illinois by the government. They appealed to the US president for help, who told them he could do nothing for them, so they left the United States for Mexico. A couple years later, the area where there were living became part of the United States.

Speaking in terms of general denominations, most Christian denominations in America are represented to some degree in the state of Utah. The exception is with Amish and Mennonites, of which there are none. But there are Adventist (18), Anglican (1), Apostolic (8), Assemblies of God (22), Baptist (136), Bible (30), Calvary Chapel (12), Catholic (80), Christian Science (5), Church of Christ (20), Church of God in Christ (6), Congregational (3), Community of Christ (3), Episcopal (24), Evangelical (11), Jehovah's Witness (34), Latter-day Saint (4,939), Lutheran (37), Methodist (23), Orthodox (8),Petecostal (9), Presbyterian (25), Quaker/Friends (1) and non-denominational/other Christian (200) congregations around the state.

Pioneer homesteaders started ranches near the Humboldt River after seeing good grazing lands on their journeys along the California Trail. Mormon pioneers settled in southeastern Nevada for free land and to escape religious persecution elsewhere. Miners came in great numbers for the sliver rush and started a boom-and-bust pattern of settlement across the territory. The Transcontinental Railroad helped open up the northern part of the state to resource industries such as grazing, mining, and logging. Water resources at springs and streams were claimed early in competition for the scarce resources.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the 'Mormon' church) tends to be more popular in poorer countries than in rich countries. The reasons vary, but most assume that it is either because the Gospel of Jesus Christ as taught by the Church gives the people hope, they are more humble and willing to accept it, and because the Church does much to help the poor and needy. Another reason some Mormons believe is because the native Latin American and Native American people are decendants of the people in the Book of Mormon, which promises that they will receive the church in the last days.

They really came from all over the place, but they mostly came from Nauvoo, Illinoise. But were forced to leave. Then i think they went to Missuri after Illinoise. Then after Missurie i think that was when they finally came here to Utah. And their group leader, Brigham Young, looked at the Utah Valley and said," This is the place."

In a covered wagon pulled by a team of horses.

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The LDS Church believes that Brigham Young was inspired and knew the direction and place of where he was supposed to lead the people to. He had stated he had seen the place in vision. He knew to go west and the variations of northwest and southwest, but he didn't know exactly how long or how far the place was until he got there. When he got to the valley (where a statue now stands) he announced: "This is the place!".

From Palmyra, New York, the main mass of the Mormon faith moved to Kirtland, Ohio, where they lived in peace for several years, then they moved on to Independence Missouri, where General Boggs issued an extermination order, forcing them to leave homes and land rightfully theirs to move it Nauvoo, Illinios, from whence they started the trek west to the Salt Lake Valley with their first stop being Winter Quarters, Iowa.

Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (commonly called the "Mormon" church) believe that God lead the pioneers to safety in Utah. Each of the hundreds of wagon or handcart groups that came was lead by an experienced trail guide. The first group to arrive in Salt Lake City was lead by Brigham Young, who acted as President of the Church after the murder of Joseph Smith. He had received a vision of the Salt Lake valley, so he knew the right place when he saw it.

As of December 2011, there were 139,089 baptized members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the "Mormon" church) living in the state of Florida.

There were a total of 14,441,346 baptized Mormons worldwide, and 19,317,568 people living in Florida.

This means that 0.72% of people in Florida are Mormon, and 0.96% of Mormons live in Florida.

Because members of the LDS Church back then were persecuted so much for their religious beliefs that they just wanted to cause as little trouble as possible. There is also a scripture in Isaiah in the Bible that is prophesy. In Isaiah 2:2 it reads,

"And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it."

When Utah was first purposed to be a state, it was going to be called the State of Deseret. 'Deseret' means honeybee in Hebrew. So the state has been purposed to congress several times. When Utah finally became Utah, a congressman named the state Utah because he thought he was mocking the Mormons that lived there by giving the state a Native American name. Utah in the language of the Ute Indians means "The top of the Mountain."

What the congressman was really doing was fulfilling prophecy that is given in the Bible.

But before all the above happened, a revelation given to Brigham Young (the Prophet of the LDS Church after Joseph Smith) by Jesus Christ Himself told Brigham to go and settle in the West. Which is why so many people traveled in handcarts and wagons is because they knew that the revelation given to Brigham was what God wanted them to do.

According to the offical 2008 statistics for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (commonly called "mormons"), there are 1,857,667 church members in the state of Utah worshipping in 4,734 congregations.

The source of this information is below under "Related Links".

The Mormons went to Utah to escape persecution and death at the hands of the mobs that had driven them out of other states.

In the early days of the Church there was a lot of prejudice against its members, and as result of the prejudice the early church members were chased out of one place after another. They had moved between New York, Illinois, Missouri ,and Ohio, and in Missouri the state actually passed a law making it legal to kill a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This Law stayed on the books until 1976.

The United States Government in response to the petitions of the Church members for help, effectively told them to get out of the country. So they sought an area that was far from other people.

The reason the Mormons left was because they had been kicked out of Ohio, Missouri, and Illinois. They appealed to the federal government for assistance, but were told that the government could do nothing for them. So, they went where they knew they could practice their religion in peace - a land that was rumored to be uninhabitable - the valley of the Great Salt Lake.

No city was originally called Deseret, the state of Utah was once called Deseret (before it became an official U.S. Territory). The area that 'Deseret' took up was much larger than the area that Utah takes up now.

Tens of thousands of members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the "Mormon" church) traveled to Utah between 1847 and 1900. Of course many of them had different experiences on their journey, and therefore there were many feelings and reactions upon arriving in Utah. Some were relieved their journey was over. Some were concerned that Utah wasn't the final mover and that they might have to leave soon. Some were disappointed that Utah was so inhospitable and barren, and some of these were hopeful the church would eventually move to California.

There are about 175,000 baptized members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the 'Mormon' church) in Nevada. This means about 6% of Nevada residents are Mormon.

As of January 2010, there are about 1,200,000 baptized members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Mexico.

the first white settlers in utah were men who left the lewis and clark expodition and built cabins in a spot that later became known as linwood utah . the first cabin was built in 1827. is still in use today

The population of Utah is 2,736,424. Of that number, 1,857,667 are baptized members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (commonly called "Mormons").

This means that approximately 68% of the population of Utah is techincally a "Mormon". However, over 20% of the Church members in Utah are not practicing, meaning that although they were baptized, they do not attend church. Only about 40% of Utah's population are active, practicing Mormons.

In the winter of 1845-1846, the saints began their preparation to migrate to the West in search of a "New Zion." In the Spring of 1846, they began their large migration and arrived in Salt Lake City in 1847.

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