While most people think of the LDS as an American religion, having experienced its greatest expansion in the US, the oldest surviving branch is not in fact in the United States, but rather the United Kingdom founded in the city of Preston in Lancashire in 1837, it is the "longest continuously functioning unit in the Church anywhere in the world." In addition to this, the church established one of its two UK temples at nearby Chorley, as well as its UK missionary training centre, in 1998. However, Mormons will generally object to the characterization, insisting that they are Christians. Both Mormonism and Bahaism have been called the "fourth Abrahamic religion", both being founded in the 19 th century. Īs of 2009 the LDS had roughly 13.5 million members worldwide. Officially, the LDS has occasionally hated both the terms "Mormon" (and its derivatives) and "LDS", preferring the long-winded "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints" or "Latter-day Saints". After Smith's assassination, Brigham Young (1801-1877) took the largest group of followers to Salt Lake City. Smith took his following from New York state to Kirtland, Ohio, then to Missouri, and finally to Nauvoo, Illinois, where opponents assassinated him. The LDS, based in Salt Lake City, Utah, traces its origins at least as far back as the original congregation founded by Vermont-born conman turned spiritual leader Joseph Smith, Jr. Mormons, who follow the religion's holy book, the Book of Mormon, are generally members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), though smaller splinter churches with slightly different doctrine than the mainline LDS Church exist, such as the Community of Christ.
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Mormonism is (debatably) a Christian sect that arose in the United States in the early nineteenth century. “ ”Nicknames of the Church, such as the "LDS Church", the "Mormon church," or the "Church of the Latter-day Saints" … is a major victory for Satan.