USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Over the next two decades more than 60, 000 Mormons would journey to the Utah Territory; thousands came by wagon, and thousands more pulled handcarts across the harsh terrain. Many died along the way, and the survivors found the country they sought to escape would soon expand its borders to encompass them.

Detailed explanation-2: -As of 2020, 60.68% of Utahns are reported as members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Detailed explanation-3: -Slightly over half of all Utahns are Mormons, the vast majority of whom are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), which has its world headquarters in Salt Lake City; Utah is the only state where a majority of the population belongs to a single church.

Detailed explanation-4: -Almost 72% of Utah’s 1.8 million residents are Mormon, as are 90% of the state’s religious adherents. In contrast, Catholics are the second-largest religious group, 3.8% of the state’s total. No other religion encompasses more than 1%.

Detailed explanation-5: -Islam and Mormonism have been compared to one another since the earliest origins of the latter in the nineteenth century, sometimes by detractors of one or both religions, but also at least once by Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, himself.