Book of Mormon, work accepted as holy scripture, in addition to the Bible, in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and other Mormon churches. ... It was first published in 1830 in Palmyra, New York, and was thereafter widely reprinted and translated.
What is the message of the Book of Mormon?
The overarching theme of the Book of Mormon
is that God will not abandon his people and will support them in their
trials if they harken to his word, and that Jesus Christ, mankind's
savior, sent prophets to his people, the Nephites, in the New World and
even appeared to them in America after his death and resurrection ...