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A tall outdoor chimney on a tan and brick house has large vertical letters reading Pray and Obey, at the former home of FLDS leader Warren Jeffs in Short Creek, Utah.
“Pray and Obey” The former home of Warren Jeffs, leader and prophet of the FLDS, in Hildale, Utah.

Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

religious group
Also known as: FLDS
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Charles Preston is Associate Editor for Religion at Encyclopædia Britannica.
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Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (FLDS), breakaway Mormon fundamentalist group that arose from communities that continued to practice polygamy after the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS, Mormonism) abandoned official support for that form of marriage in 1890. The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (FLDS) is estimated to be the largest of the splinter Mormon groups that continue polygamous marriage (specifically polygyny, multiple wives married to one...

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