Event

First Vision

26 Mar 1820 · 43.04° N, 77.25° W

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When
26 Mar 1820
Kind
Event
Coordinates
43.04° N, 77.25° W
Description
Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, receives his First Vision in Palmyra, New York.

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First Vision

Theophany that Joseph Smith received in the spring of 1820

The First Vision refers to a theophany which Latter Day Saints believe Joseph Smith experienced in the early 1820s, in a wooded area in Manchester, New York, called the Sacred Grove. Smith described it as a vision in which he received instruction from God the Father and Jesus Christ.

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