Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS/Mormonism)
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was a Christian restorationist faith founded by Joseph Smith in New York in 1830 and headquartered in Salt Lake City from 1847. Its members accepted the Book of Mormon as scripture, followed a living prophet and apostles, served in a lay ministry and worshipped in temples and local wards. Grown from a persecuted frontier movement into a global church of nearly eighteen million, it reached Australia in 1840 and South Australia's suburbs in the following century.







