Temple (Latter Day Saints) - Church of Jesus Christ (Cutlerite)

Church of Jesus Christ (Cutlerite)

The Church of Jesus Christ (Cutlerite) performs temple ordinances in its Independence, Missouri meetinghouse (their only chapel still in active use), though it also believes in the construction of special temple buildings such as the ones in Kirtland and Nauvoo. Cutlerites do not designate their meetinghouse as a temple, per se, but they believe that it serves precisely the same purpose, and that the ordinances performed there are just as valid as ones done in any historic (pre-1844) LDS temple. As within the LDS church, these sacred services are not open to the public, and participants are forbidden to discuss them outside the room where they are performed.

Cutlerite meetinghouses are constructed with a main-floor chapel that is always open to the public, unless baptisms for the dead are being performed; a second-floor room (closed to the public at all times) is reserved for the ordinances of the Endowment. A rectangular-shaped baptismal font is accessed through a trap door beneath the floor of the main-floor chapel, which is used for baptisms of both the living and the dead. Eternal Marriages are not performed by the Cutlerites, as they have always rejected that particular doctrine.