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The official church membership as a percentage of general population was 1.14% in 2014. According to the 2014 Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life survey, roughly 1% of Missourians self-identify themselves most closely with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. [3] The LDS Church is the 8th largest denomination in Missouri. [4]
The Church of Jesus Christ (Cutlerite) is a denomination of the Latter Day Saint movement headquartered in Independence, Missouri, United States.The church derives its epithet from its founder, Alpheus Cutler, [3] a member of the Nauvoo High Council and of Joseph Smith's Council of Fifty.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Missouri (1 C, 5 P) Community of Christ (3 C, 34 P) L. ... Pages in category "Latter Day Saint movement in Missouri"
Although Governor Boggs belatedly ordered a militia unit under Colonel Sterling Price to northern Missouri to stop ongoing depredations against the Latter Day Saints, he refused to repeal the order. [26] The Missouri legislature deferred discussion of an appeal by Mormons to rescind the decree. [28]
Missouri blamed the latter-day saints for the conflict and forced the latter-day saints to sign over all their lands in order to pay for the state militia muster. Latter-day saint leaders appealed to the state legislature to overturn the requirement that they leave the state, but the legislature tabled the issue until a date well after that ...
The Temple in Independence, Missouri, is a house of worship and education "dedicated to the pursuit of peace". [1] It dominates the skyline of Independence and has become the focal point of the headquarters of the Community of Christ (formerly the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints). [2]
Far West was a settlement of the Latter Day Saint movement in Caldwell County, Missouri, United States, during the late 1830s. It is recognized as a historic site by the U.S. National Register of Historic Places, added to the register in 1970. It is owned and maintained by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Lilburn Boggs, Governor of Missouri during the Mormon War, lived in Independence prior to that conflict. Boggs was widely perceived as a vehement "anti-Mormon", having issued his "extermination order" in the fall of 1838, and the Latter Day Saints blamed him for much of the difficulties and sorrows they had been forced to endure. Following the ...