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{{short description|Nephite capital in the Book of Mormon}}
{{Distinguish|Zerahemnah}}
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| settlement_type    = Nephite capital in the Book of Mormon
| named_for          = Zarahemla (ruler)
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'''Zarahemla''' ({{IPAc-en|ˌ|z|ær|ə|ˈ|h|ɛ|m|l|ə}})<ref>[http://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/scriptures/bofm/pronunciation?lang=eng churchofjesuschrist.org: "Book of Mormon Pronunciation Guide"] (retrieved 2012-02-25), [[Wikipedia:IPA for English|IPA]]-ified from «zĕr-a-hĕm´la»</ref> is a land in the [[Book of Mormon]] that for much of the narrative functions as the capital of the [[Nephites]], their political and religious center. Zarahemla has been the namesake of multiple communities in the United States, has been alluded to in literature that references Mormonism, and has been portrayed in artwork depicting Book of Mormon content.

Most adherents of the [[Latter Day Saint movement]] regard the Book of Mormon as a translation of a genuinely historical text from the ancient Americas (a belief that mainstream academic archaeology does not corroborate). Some adherents have speculated about where Zarahemla would have been located or attempted to find archaeological evidence of it. Such attempts have been unsuccessful.

== Background ==
{{Book of Mormon}} 
The [[Book of Mormon]], published in 1830, is one of the central scriptures of [[Mormonism]],<ref>{{Harvtxt|Mason|2015|loc="Origins and History", fourth paragraph}}.</ref> also called the [[Latter Day Saint movement]].<ref>{{Harvtxt|Dunstan|Hawvermale|2022|p=177n1}}.</ref> Founder [[Joseph Smith]] said that an angel of the [[God in Christianity|Christian God]] directed him to uncover metal plates inscribed with the history of a Christian people in the ancient Americas and that by miraculous means he translated them, producing the Book of Mormon.<ref>{{Harvtxt|Bushman|2008|pp=19, 21–22}}.</ref> Most in the Latter Day Saint movement regard the Book of Mormon as being genuinely ancient and historical.<ref>{{Harvtxt|Vogel|1986|p=3}}.</ref> Mainstream academic archaeology considers Book of Mormon historicity implausible and unproven.<ref>{{Harvtxt|Givens|2002|pp=145–148}}.</ref>

== Setting ==
In the Book of Mormon, the "land of Zarahemla" is populated by the "people of Zarahemla", so called for Zarahemla, their ruler at the time of the Nephites' encounter with them.<ref name=":1">{{Harvtxt|Hardy|2023|pp=210n12–13, 210n14–16, 222}}. Quotation is {{sourcetext|source=Book_of_Mormon_(1981)|book=Omni|chapter=1|verse=13–14}}.</ref>{{Efn|Readers have often called this people the "Mulekites", after the name of Zarahemla's ancestor, though the term is not original to the Book of Mormon.<ref>{{harvtxt|Hardy|2023|pp=210n14–16}}.</ref>}} Zarahemla is identified as a descendant of [[Mulek]], who according to the Book of Mormon is a son of the biblical king [[Zedekiah]].<ref>{{Harvtxt|Hardy|2023|p=222}}. See {{sourcetext|source=Book_of_Mormon_(1981)|book=Helaman|chapter=6|verse=10}} for the identification of Mulek as Zedekiah's son.</ref>{{Efn|Mulek himself is an extrabiblical figure.<ref name="Hardy 2023 889">{{harvtxt|Hardy|2023|p=889}}.</ref>}} 350 years earlier, around the same time as the Nephites' ancestor Lehi's flight from Jerusalem, Mulek had led a group from Jerusalem, guided by God, to the same new continent as the Nephites.<ref>{{Harvtxt|Hardy|2023|pp=210n14–16, 222}}.</ref>

When the Nephite king [[King Mosiah I|Mosiah]]{{Efn|The grandfather of the more well known [[King Mosiah II|King Mosiah]].<ref name="Hardy 2023 889">{{harvtxt|Hardy|2023|p=889}}.</ref>}} leads a group of Nephite refugees, in response to divine direction, out from the land of Nephi and into the land of Zarahemla, encountering the people of Zarahemla, they and the Nephites unite their societies, and Mosiah becomes king of them all.<ref>{{Harvtxt|Austin|2024|p=83}}.</ref> Zarahemla becomes the second capital city of the Nephites.<ref>{{Harvtxt|Bingman|1978|p=388}}; {{Harvnb|Hardy|2023|pages=210n12–13, 222, 225, 892}}.</ref> Literary scholar Jared Hickman calls it "the Nephite home base for the rest of the narrative" after the Nephites migrate there.<ref>{{Harvtxt|Hickman|2022|p=280}}.</ref> The Nephites who remain in the land of Nephi, rather than follow Mosiah to the land of Zarahemla, never reappear in the Book of Mormon, and the land of Nephi becomes Lamanite territory.<ref>{{Harvtxt|Hardy|2023|pp=210n12–13}}.</ref>

A temple features in the narrative as the apparent geographic, ceremonial, and societal center of Zarahemla.<ref>{{Harvtxt|Ricks|2012|p=20}}.</ref>

==Narrative==
{{Religious text primary|date=October 2011|section}}
When the Nephite king [[King Mosiah I|Mosiah]] leads Nephite refugees, in response to divine direction, out from the land of Nephi, they encounter a city inhabited by a people called the "people of Zarahemla", the name of their ruler, in a place called the "land of Zarahemla".<ref name=":1" /> Zarahemla is identified as a descendant of Mulek, narrated to be a son of the biblical king Zedekiah; Mulek

According to the Book of Mormon, the [[Nephite]] [[King Mosiah I|Mosiah]] and his followers "discovered that the people of Zarahemla came out from Jerusalem at the time that Zedekiah king of Judah, was carried away captive into Babylon" (about 587 B.C.).<ref>{{Mormonverse|Omni|1:14-15}}</ref> The people descended from a group led by Mulek, a son of the biblical king Zedekiah, who left Jerusalem at the time of the Babylonian conquest and also crossed the ocean and arrived at the same continent as the party led by Lehi.<ref>{{Harvtxt|Sorensen|1992}}.</ref> The book of Omni in the Book of Mormon tells how Zarahemla and his people came to settle the land of Zarahemla in the New World. Mosiah and his refugee people presumably united with the people of Zarahemla sometime between 279 and 130 B.C. "Mosiah was appointed to be their king."<ref>{{Mormonverse|Omni|1:19}}</ref> Mosiah thereafter presided in the land of Zarahemla over a people called collectively "the Nephites". The '''Land of Zarahemla''' was the [[Nephite]] capital for many years.

Notable Book of Mormon descendants of the leader Zarahemla include Ammon the venturer and [[Coriantumr (Nephite Dissenter)|Coriantumr]] the dissenter. Ammon led a quest in search of a colony that had left the land of Zarahemla in order to resettle a city named Lehi-Nephi.<ref>{{Mormonverse|Mosiah|7:1-3}}</ref> The dissenter [[Coriantumr (Nephite Dissenter)|Coriantumr]] led the [[Lamanites]] in battle against the Nephites in the first century B.C.<ref>{{Mormonverse|Helaman|1:15}}</ref>

At some point before Mosiah discovered Zarahemla, the people of Zarahemla had discovered [[Coriantumr (Last Jaredite King)|Coriantumr]] (not to be confused with the later Nephite dissenter of the same name). According to the Book of Mormon, Coriantumr was the last of a destroyed nation called the [[Jaredites]]. Coriantumr stayed with the people of Zarahemla "for the space of nine moons" ({{Mormonverse|Omni|1:21}}) before dying and being buried by them ({{Mormonverse|Omni|13:21}}).

Benjamin succeeded his father Mosiah as the second Nephite king of Zarahemla. [[King Benjamin]] was victorious in driving [[Lamanites]] enemies from the Zarahemla region.<ref>{{Mormonverse|Omni|1|24}}</ref>

At the time of the crucifixion of [[Christ]], the Book of Mormon records that "there were exceedingly sharp lightnings, such as never had been known in all the land. And the city of Zarahemla did take fire."<ref>{{Mormonverse|3 Nephi|8:7-8}}</ref>  "And it came to pass that there was a voice heard among all the inhabitants of the earth ... 'because of their iniquity and abominations ... that great city Zarahemla have I burned with fire, and the inhabitants thereof ... I am Jesus Christ, the Son of God.'" (3 Nephi, 9: 1, 2, 3, 15.)  The Book of Mormon indicates that "the great city of Zarahemla" was rebuilt sometime in the first century A.D.<ref>{{Mormonverse|4 Nephi|1:7-8}}</ref> As his doomed nation retreated northward from their enemies, the 4th century prophet and historian [[Mormon (Book of Mormon)|Mormon]] recorded that Nephite "towns, and villages, and cities were burned with fire."<ref>{{Mormonverse|Mormon|5:5}}</ref> The Book of Mormon does not indicate whether the city of Zarahemla survived to be occupied by Lamanites after the destruction of the Nephite nation.

==Cultural reception==
=== Namesakes ===
In 1841, Joseph Smith dictated a revelation instructing Latter-day Saints in [[Iowa]] to establish a city across the [[Mississippi River]] from [[Nauvoo, Illinois]] and name it after Zarahemla.<ref>{{Harvtxt|Kimball|1978|pp=138–139}}; {{Harvtxt|Woods|2003|p=87}}.</ref> A settlement of Latter-day Saints, located across the Mississippi River from Nauvoo and south of [[Montrose, Iowa]], was called ''Zarahemla''.<ref>{{Harvtxt|Kahlert|2016|pp=198, 265}}.</ref> The Zarahemla Stake{{Efn|Among Latter-day Saints, a ''stake'' is a regional unit of ecclesiastical organization which oversees several local units, or congregations (known as ''wards'').<ref>{{Harvnb|Alexander|Bitton|2019|p=252}}.</ref>}} in Iowa was abandoned in 1842.<ref>{{Harvtxt|Kahlert|2016|p=265}}.</ref> In the nineteenth century, [[Blanchardville, Wisconsin]] was called Zarahemla.<ref>{{Harvtxt|Kelty|2011|pp=88–89}}.</ref> In 1850, under the direction of [[Zenas H. Gurley Sr.|Zenas H. Gurley]], Latter Day Saints who lived there and were unaffiliated with [[Brigham Young]]'s [[The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints|Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]] organized into the Yellowstone Branch.<ref>{{Harvtxt|Kelty|2011|pp=91–92}}.</ref> Zarahemla was the location of the Reorganization's first or second conference, held in 1853.<ref>{{Harvtxt|Ishikawa|1979|p=62}} calls it the first conference; {{Harvtxt|Barlow|2004|p=30}} states it is the second.</ref> The congregation at Zarahemla dissolved in 1860.<ref>{{Harvtxt|Kelty|2011|p=101}}.</ref>

Zarahemla, Utah is named after the city from the Book of Mormon.<ref>{{Harvtxt|Eliason|2023|p=74}}.</ref> The second book in author Gary Stewart's Gabe Utley detective series, published in 1986, is titled ''The Zarahemla Vision''.<ref>{{Harvtxt|Brady|1987|pp=238–239}}.</ref> Its narrative is set in Salt Lake City and involves the apparent kidnapping of the LDS Church president.<ref>{{Harvtxt|Vicarel|1986|p=114}}.</ref> As part of appropriating Mormon themes of revelation and ideas about indigenous resurgence, Kanaka Maoli author Matthew Kaopio's 2005 novel ''Written in the Sky'' invokes the name Zarahemla to allude to the Book of Mormon.<ref>{{Harvtxt|Amos|2016|pp=197, 199, 208}}.</ref> One of the novel's characters, Dr. Owlfeathers, is from the nonexistent Zarahemla University.<ref>{{Harvtxt|Amos|2016|p=209}}.</ref>

=== Speculating locations ===
Responding to their belief in the Book of Mormon's ancient historicity, Latter-day Saints throughout the nineteenth century believed archaeological evidence would emerge to corroborate the Book of Mormon; many regarded scholarship on the ancient Americas as vindication of the book.<ref name=":0">{{Harvtxt|Jones|2016|p=200}}.</ref> There has been no actual archaeological discovery of Zarahemla.<ref>{{Harvtxt|Stoker|Derengowski|2018|loc="The Book of Mormon's alleged authority over the content of the Bible", second paragraph}}.</ref>

In 1842, Latter-day Saint newspaper the ''[[Times and Seasons]]'' associated Zarahemla with the ruins of [[Quiriguá]].<ref>{{Harvtxt|Nash|2017|pp=87, 91}}.</ref> Artist [[George M. Ottinger]] opined that the Maya city-state [[Palenque]] was one and the same as Zarahemla.<ref>{{Harvtxt|Robertson|2022|p=7}}.</ref>  In an elaborate geography constructed from the Book of Mormon's text, Latter-day Saints [[George Reynolds (Mormon)|George Reynolds]] and [[Janne M. Sjödahl]] supposed Zarahemla was located along the [[Magdalena River]] in [[Colombia]].<ref name=":0" /> Classically trained,<ref>{{Harvtxt|Givens|2002|p=106}}.</ref> Sjödahl followed the "signature style of biblical archaeology", in the words of religious studies scholar Matthew Bowman, trying to corroborate Book of Mormon text with archaeological data, to draw his conclusions for associating Zarahemla with the Maya.<ref>{{Harvtxt|Bowman|2021|p=83}}.</ref>{{efn|In a retrospective on Book of Mormon historicity apologetics, Brant Gardner states that anthropological evidence indicates that "any facile equation of the Nephites with the Maya (or claim that the Nephites influenced the Maya) cannot work".<ref>{{harvtxt|Gardner|2021|pp=144, 155}}.</ref>}}

[[Benjamin Cluff]], then president of Brigham Young Academy, from 1900 to 1901 led an expedition, mostly comprising students, to try to discover evidence of the city of Zarahemla in Colombia, in accord with Reynolds and Sjödahl's proposed geography.<ref>{{Harvtxt|Givens|2002|p=107}}; {{Harvtxt|Jones|2016|pp=199–201}}; {{Harvtxt|Bowman|2021|p=72}}.</ref> Six of the group reached the Magdalena, but they turned back after learning that civil conflict had destabilized the region, ending their expedition.<ref>{{Harvtxt|Jones|2016|pp=203, 235}}.</ref>

[[Margarito Bautista]] in his 1936 ''La evolución de Mexico: sus verdaderos progenitores y su origen: el destino de America y Europa'' expressed his belief that Book of Mormon peoples were the ancestors of indigenous Mexicans, and he superimposed Zarahemla onto the region north of Panama, somewhere in Guatemala, Honduras, or southern Mexico.<ref>{{Harvtxt|Pulido|2020|pp=108–110, 227}}.</ref>

In 2021, a group of Mormons called the Heartland Research Group believed they had found the location of Zarahemla outside [[Montrose, Iowa]] and searched the soil for evidence of human habitation using [[lidar]].<ref>{{Harvtxt|Rushing|2021}}.</ref> They also took core samples with the aim of using carbon dating to identify evidence of fires.<ref>{{Harvtxt|Noyce|2021|loc="Digging deep into the Book of Mormon"}}.</ref> The Heartland Research Group holds to what has been called the "Heartland model", a belief among certain Mormons that the events of the Book of Mormon took place specifically in the Heartland of the United States, the emergence of which coincided with growth in LDS Church membership in Central and South America.<ref>{{Harvtxt|Seriac|2021|loc=second paragraph–third paragraph}}.</ref> ''Religion Dispatches'' reports that the Heartland model movement rests on American nationalism and espouses white supremacy and Euro-American colonialism.<ref>{{Harvtxt|Seriac|2021|loc=sixth paragraph–tenth paragraph}}.</ref>
[[File:Destruction of Zarahemla, by George Ottinger, 1888.png|thumb|''Destruction of Zarahemla'' (1888) by George M. Ottinger]]

=== Visual art ===
[[George M. Ottinger]]'s oil painting ''Destruction of Zarahemla'' took cues for its composition from [[Benjamin West]]'s ''Death on a Pale Horse'' and for its visualization of Zarahemla from archaeological illustrations, including a [[Maya stelae]] resembling one from Quiriguála.<ref>{{Harvtxt|Robertson|2022|pp=6–7}}.</ref> The horses, chariot, clouds, and fleeing crowd also resemble those of [[Nicolas Poussin]]'s paintings ''The Conversion of St. Paul'' and ''The Death of Hippolytus''.<ref>{{Harvtxt|Carmack|2008|p=124}}.</ref> It was published in December 1888 as an illustration in ''The Story of the Book of Mormon''.<ref>{{Harvtxt|Carmack|2008|pp=116, 125}}.</ref>

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== Further reading ==

* {{Cite journal |last=Johnson |first=Sherrie Mills |date=April 2005 |title=The Zoramite Separation: A Sociological Perspective |url=https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jbms/article-abstract/14/1/74/275358/The-Zoramite-Separation-A-Sociological-Perspective?redirectedFrom=fulltext |journal=Journal of Book of Mormon Studies |volume=14 |issue=1 |pages=74–85 |doi=10.5406/jbookmormstud.14.1.0074 |issn=1065-9366|url-access=subscription }}
* {{Cite journal |last=Sorensen |first=John L. |date=1972 |title=Nephi's Garden and Chief Market |journal=International Congress of Americanists |volume=40 |pages=41–60}}
* {{Cite book |last=Steinberg |first=Avi |title=The Lost Book of Mormon: A Journey Through the Mythic Lands of Nephi, Zarahemla, and Kansas City, Missouri |publisher=Nan A. Talese |year=2014 |isbn=978-0385535694 |language=en}}

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