Latter Day Saints Research Paper

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was founded in Georgia in the 1840’s. Adherents to this church were known as “Latter-day Saints”, more commonly referred to today as Mormons. In the late twentieth century, Atlanta became the center for Mormonism. The most recent census has shown that more than 60,000 Mormon missionaries live in the state of Georgia. The beginning of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was founded and lead by one man, Joseph Smith.
God gave Smith motivation to restore the church of Jesus Christ, thus he never joined any of the existing churches. In 1829, Smith decided he was going to write a book about the history of the ancient North America people. After many unsuccessful attempts at completing …show more content…
Finally, the Latter-day Saints settled back in Georgia in 1838, which then prompted them to rename the church to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Joseph Smith, the founder and leader of Latter-day Saints, was soon assassinated on June 27th, 1844.
The murderers of Joseph Smith were members of a secret, racist society called the Knights of the Golden Circle, also known as the Ku Klux Klan or KKK. The Mormon missionaries considered the KKK group to be the church’s greatest enemy. In the late 1890’s, the Ku Klux Klan migrated to Georgia, thus displacing the Mormon practice. Missionaries were pulled from their homes, kidnapped, and tortured by the Ku Klux Klan.
Today, Utah is considered to be the base of the Latter-day Saint’s Church. Between 1882 and 1919, Mormon headquarters relocated to Chattanooga, Tennessee. Around 1908, another congregation of Mormons opened a chapel in Atlanta, Georgia. The chapel became a huge success. In response to this success, the mission headquarters moved their establishment back to the state of Georgia. In 1925, a large brick chapel was constructed for the mission headquarters. This building was named the Atlanta Georgia Temple, and it was the first temple in the

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