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Jul 11, 2019 · Coptic Christians are an ethnoreligious group indigenous to Northeast Africa who predominantly reside in the region of modern Egypt, where they are the biggest Christian denomination in the nation. Learn about the origin and significance of Coptic traditions in Christianity as well as the worldwide membership of Copts today.
- Brown Seer Stone
- Lucy Mack Smith’s 1830 Book of Mormon
- Liberty Jail Door
- Joseph Smith Handkerchief
- Joseph Smith’s Masonic Apron
- Pepperbox Pistol
- Manti Temple Hair Wreath
- Temple Swimsuit
- Hong Kong Temple Sketch
- West African Angel Moroni
Joseph Smith likely used this egg-sized stone while translating the Book of Mormon. When the translation was completed, the stone was given to Oliver Cowdery. Phineas Young, Brigham’s brother, obtained the stone from Cowdery’s widow after he died in 1850. The church published photographs of the seer stone in 2015 as part of the Joseph Smith Papers ...
When the Book of Mormon was first published in 1830, Lucy Mack Smith, the prophet’s mother, was among the first to get a copy. She studied and treasured the book the rest of her life. This tattered copy, which bears her signature, was handed down through the Smith family until it came into the possession of the Community of Christ.
During the winter of 1838-39, Joseph Smith and other Latter-day Saints were imprisoned in Missouri’s Liberty Jail. The structure was a jail until about 1856 and then was used as an icehouse. Joseph Smith III, then president of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (now Community of Christ), visited the crumbling building in 18...
During the Saints’ settlement of Nauvoo, Illinois, Joseph Smith performed several miraculous healings. A man with sick twin children approached the prophet and requested that he heal them. Joseph asked Wilford Woodruff to go heal the children. Before he left, Joseph handed his friend a red handkerchief and instructed him to wipe the children’s face...
During the Nauvoo era, Joseph Smith and other church leaders sought ways to gather allies in hopes of preventing hostilities like they faced in Missouri. Some church members already belonged to the Freemasons, “so reaching out to the group seemed like a natural way for the Saints to recruit important and influential allies,” the authors wrote. Jose...
There is documentation that this Allen & Thurber Grafton-style pepperbox pistol was found in the room when Joseph Smith and others were attacked in the Carthage Jail and Joseph and his brother Hyrum Smith were killed. It was later sent to John Taylor. It is not known when it was donated to the Church History Museum. For many years its location was ...
For many years this hair wreath adorned a wall in the Manti Utah Temple. Mary W. Wintch, a member of the Manti South Ward, designed the wreath and wove together strands of hair from women in the Relief Society. Inscribed on the artwork is the phrase, “These locks of hair, O Lord, thou hast seen us wear, so now we commit them to Thy Holy Temple’s ca...
Most Latter-day Saints wouldn’t associate a swimsuit with a temple, but there is a true account with a unique connection. In 1952, the church needed to raise money to build the Los Angeles California Temple. Local leaders turned to Rose Marie Reid, an active Latter-day Saint and one of the most famous swimsuit designers in the fashion world. Reid h...
In July 1992, President Gordon B. Hinckley was in Asia to select a site for the Hong Kong China Temple. After a discouraging day of not finding a site he felt good about, President Hinckley returned to his hotel and went to sleep. Between 2 and 3 a.m., inspiration came in a dream. He felt directed to use property already owned by the church to buil...
In August 1978, a few months after President Spencer W. Kimball received the revelation on the priesthood (Official Declaration 2), the First Presidency sent Edwin Q. Cannon and Merrill Bateman on a fact-finding mission to West Africa. Along with finding many congregations of people interested in the church, they discovered a large statue of the An...
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By current policy, no pictures or icons are depicted in the chapel within modern LDS meetinghouses, in order to avoid an image becoming the focus of worship rather than the reality of God. However, images such as paintings of Christ and photographs of LDS leaders and temples are common in other parts of church buildings.
In spite of its minority position, the Coptic Church was able to survive, and beginning in the 1950s Coptic Christianity experienced a religious revival. Concurrent with this revival a movement of Coptic immigration to Western countries started during the 1960s. The majority of the immigrants settled in the United States, Canada, Australia, and ...
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) focuses its doctrine and teaching on Jesus Christ; that he was the Son of God, born of Mary, lived a perfect life, performed miracles, bled from every pore in the Garden of Gethsemane, died on the cross, rose on the third day, appeared again to his disciples, and now resides, authoritatively, on the right hand side of God.
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Images of Christ created by Latter-day Saints reveal their worldview of Christ’s Jewishness and thus their perceptions of Semitic physical attributes in general. Latter-day Saints have generally believed in a fair-skinned Christ.
