Mormonsin The Lightof The Ottoman Archivedocuments: The Awarenessof The Religious Diversityatthe Ageof Crisis

The Ottoman state has developed an important stan-dard of harmony by the management of different religions and cultures. So, non-Muslim minorities were formally given import-ant rights, which are expressed in the millet system. This practice continued to strengthen until the collapse of the Ottoman Em-pire. This system was carried out without any compromise and under this system violation of social rights was not attempted on different religious communities although it facilitated the work of Christian missionaries during the last period of the Ottoman Em-pire. Practices and applications on this issue were recorded in the Ottoman archive documents. These documents show the positive attitudes of the Ottoman Empire towards different religious com-munities in the situation of political crisis. In this article we have discussed the issue through the archive documents, especially on missionary activities of Mormons while they were not the mem-bers of the millet system of the Ottoman Empire. We have shed light on their balanced and the fair attitudes towards Mormonism.