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Michael Salt Lake City is the Mecca for Mormons. If you are not familiar with this religion, here is a brief summary: The Mormons, known in America as "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints," believe in everything that is written in the Bible (Old and New Testament) but have their own prophet.
In 1823, an angel named Moroni appeared to the first Mormon prophet and founder of the Mormon Church, Joseph Smith. This happened on the American continent, in the northern part of the state of New York. The angel revealed to Joseph Smith the location of some golden plates that were written in an ancient language. Smith translated them and composed the "Book of Mormon" from them, the additional Bible of the Mormons.
The story begins with a man named Lehi, who sailed from Jerusalem to North America by ship 600 years before the birth of Christ. He had two sons, Nephi and Laman, who did not get along and founded two tribes, the Nephites and the Lamanites. After a thousand years of conflict, the Lamanites defeated the Nephites in the year 400 AD and exterminated them. The leader of the defeated Nephites was a man named Mormon, who had a son named Moroni -- and Moroni appeared to Joseph Smith 1400 years later as an angel.
The religion quickly gained many followers through Joseph Smith, and after some detours in the state of Illinois and some complications during which Joseph Smith was shot, the Mormons settled in a desert area in the state of Utah -- and from this settlement emerged what is Salt Lake City today.
The Mormons always have a living prophet. When the old prophet dies, the eldest of a group of twelve apostles automatically succeeds him.
Mormons are always actively recruiting new members, and during our visit to the Mormon temple in Salt Lake City, we were repeatedly asked to fill out a form with our address, which we naturally declined with thanks.
But we were allowed to participate in a tour, not inside the temple (which is members-only), but at least in the visitor center, where, in the dome hall, we heard a performance of the voice of Jesus Christ.
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