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LDS.org is an official website of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, which is an organization to preach and spread the teachings of Christianity around the world. It has been founded on the belief systems like Nontrinitarianism and Mormonism. Headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, It operates temples, meetinghouse, visitors' centers, historic sites, events, institutes, and family services. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints has its footprints across 176 nations around the world. The organization has the network of over 85,000 missonaries and has the membership of over 15,082,028 people. LDS is dubbed as one of the largest Christian organizations by the National Council of Churches and is the largest body carrying Latter Day Saint ideology. It has adopted sacred writings like, Bible, Book of Mormon, the Doctrine and Covenants and the Pearl of Great Price as its religious text.
History and Expansion of LDS
Coming to the history of LDS Church, it has covered the leaderships of figures like Joseph Smith and Brigham Young and emergence of Utah as its hub. The LDS Church was founded by
Joseph Smith on
April 6, 1830 and next year, Kirtland, Ohio was made its base. The earlier years for LDS Church under the reign of Joseph Smith was full of financial crisis and other troubles which led him to shift the headquarters of LDS to Illinois. At the new location, LDC witnessed to rapid growth and started to deliver its missionaries to Europe. In 1844, Smith and his
Brother Hyrum were killed by Mob who were on trial for allegations of treason. The leadership of LDS was passed to
Brigham Young, who shifted it to Nebraska before being finally settled in Utah. Meanwhile, the followers of LDS was termed "Mormon". The organization was making
Progress with the passage of time and by 2000 it had the strength of over, 60,784 missionaries.