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Court of the Patriarchs at Zion National Park. Left to right, they are Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Jacob is actually the light-colored peak behind the orange-colored Mt. Moroni in the foreground. See the 2008 picture for the labels. Photograph taken in mid-April 2019. This image is 27% size of original.

Sign at the shuttle stop: Court of the Patriarchs

Named for the three towering figures of the Old Testament, these sandstone cliffs hold court over Birch Creek Canyon and this section of the Virgin River. In 1916 Frederick Vining Fisher, A Methodist minister, gave the religious names to the peaks. Today it is not hard to imagine how the grandeur of this view could inspire such reverence.

Abraham Peak is 6890 feet = 2101 meters high; Isaac Peak is 6825 feet = 2081 meters high; Jacob Peak is 6831 feet = 2083 meters high; and Mt Moroni is 5690 feet = 1734 meters high.

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