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Mount Tabor is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) within Parsippany-Troy Hills Township in Morris County, New Jersey.

Mount Tabor was established in 1869 as a Methodist camp meeting ground, when the Camp Meeting Association of the Newark Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church was incorporated by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 17, 1869.

The community is named for Mount Tabor in Israel, the biblical mountain associated with the Transfiguration.

The first camp meeting was held in August 1869 as a ten-day gathering of religious services, prayer meetings, and lectures, and more than 300 tent sites were subscribed in the community's first year.

Campers pitched tents on tiny leased lots measuring just 16 by 25 feet around Trinity Park, and narrow Victorian cottages with gingerbread trim were soon built on those same small lots, with more than 200 cottages standing by 1890.

The octagonal Tabernacle at the heart of the community was built in 1885 and remains its landmark gathering place.

The Camp Meeting Association still owns most of the land in Mount Tabor and functions much like a homeowners association, while residents own their houses and hold 99-year, perpetually renewable leaseholds on the land beneath them.

Mount Tabor governed itself as a church-run municipality until 1980, when it became part of Parsippany-Troy Hills Township following a New Jersey Supreme Court ruling involving Ocean Grove's similar camp meeting government; before 1928 it had been part of Hanover Township.

The Mount Tabor Historic District was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2015, recognizing its remarkably preserved camp meeting layout and cottages.

As of the 2020 census, Mount Tabor had a population of 1,244 people in close to 400 households.