meetinghouse

Today, new members are usually baptized in a local meetinghouse.

Temples are not used for weekly worship or the baptism of new members; those functions are assigned to local churches called meetinghouses.

The prosperity of the 1950s enabled an ambitious construction agenda for the next decade, as the church built over a thousand new meetinghouses and temples for its exploding membership.

Replacing grass with rocks and water-wise landscaping around neatly manicured meetinghouses.

“Nothing meant more to Mom and Tausha than family,” Earl said in front of a church meetinghouse.