Cumorah
As a small hill Cumorah in Palmyra ( Wayne County) is in the western part of New York State, United States of America called. This name was given to the hill of members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints after a Book of Mormon mentioned place.
According to the beliefs of the Mormon prophet Moroni there hid the gold plates containing the records of the people of the Nephites and Jaredites. The Mormons believe Joseph Smith in 1827 was the resurrected Moroni been directed to this hill to get these plates and a portion of it into English. This translation is the Book of Mormon. Mormon in the historical context of the book, the name of the hill where Moroni about 420 after Christ hid the gold plates not mentioned.
On the hill a visitor center and a memorial of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter -day Saints was established.
A " Hill Cumorah " The Book of Mormon described in a land of many waters, and explicitly mentioned as the depository of other records of the above nations. Further, it is reported that almost all Nephites were killed in the area around Cumorah, in a great battle.
Took a long time to members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter -day Saints, the place in upstate New York, where Joseph Smith received the gold plates according to his information, was the Book of Mormon Hill Cumorah mentioned. More recent investigations have shown, however, that this could not be true because of the statements in the Book of Mormon itself and due to the lack of archaeological evidence for a large, ancient battlefield.
Further attempts to locate the Book of Mormon Hill Cumorah mentioned lead to Central America. This theory identifies the hill Cerro el Vigia (Sierra de los Tuxtlas ) in Veracruz, the Kaminaljuyu region (near Guatemala City ) and Teotihuacan (near Mexico City).
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