Cumorah at Cerro el Vigia
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Mormon scholars have proposed the "Cerro El Vigia" (coordinates: 18°33′N 95°11′W or 18°27′25″N 95°21′01″W ) in Veracruz, Mexico, as the hill Cumorah in the Book of Mormon for a variety of reasons. John L. Sorenson has listed 15 cultural criteria for the hill Cumorah which are based on contextual clues from the text of the Book of Mormon: cities, towers, agriculture, metallurgy, formal political states, organized religion, idolatry, crafts, trade, writing, weaponry, astronomy, calendar systems, cement, and wheels. Sorensen alleges that the hill in New York at least partly fits four of these requirements while the Cerro El Vigia meets all of them. Description
Cumorah
Cumorah (//) (also known as Mormon Hill,[2][3][4] Gold Bible Hill,[5][6] and Inspiration Point)[2] is a drumlin in Manchester, New York, where Joseph Smith, Jr. said he found a set of gold plates which he translated into English and published as the Book of Mormon.
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