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This reconstruction of Book of Mormon lands is taken from John L. Sorenson, Mormon’s Map, courtesy of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship. It offers one of the most plausible and influential arrangements of Nephite and Lamanite geographical features based on all the information in the text.
The Book of Mormon includes a history of an ancient people who migrated from the Near East to the Americas. This history contains information about the places they lived, including descriptions of landforms, natural features, and the distances and cardinal directions between important points.
In the app, readers will see a physical representation of the large plates of Nephi (an extensive collection of plates), the small plates (a stack measuring less than half an inch thick), twenty-four Jaredite plates, the brass plates, the plates of Mormon, and many other unnamed plates, scrolls, and codices described in the ten accounts.
Mar 15, 2017 · The 2-D map was created in high definition and displays reference points for cities and lands in the Book of Mormon. The team also developed an interactive version of the map that corresponds to scripture selections on a mock-up Liahona.
The physical maps here, in all their detail, were not formulated until after 16 years of research, which included the Internal Geography and the “Spiritual Geography” (a term coined by us and pertains to land prophecies).
Are we really going to expect Joseph Smith to look at one of these two maps of one island, Comore, flip the name "Moroon" to become "Moroni", flip the name "Comoro" to "Cumorah", and stick it in the Book of Mormon?
Get a printable HD version of the map. Use this to help you follow the various journeys of the people and understand the significance of the locations mentioned in the Book of Mormon.
