The Washington Post website reports today (May 29, 2011) that a newly opened Mormon chapel in Crystal City, Virginia is made up entirely of singles -- 800 of them.
The "23rd Street chapel" is unique in the American Mormon Church: It is the only worship space in the United States devoted solely to unmarried people in their 20s, 30s, and 40s.
The chapel represents Mormonism's exalted view of marriage and its particular strategy for getting singles wed as quickly as possible: by separating them from people who are married.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints -- the formal name of the Mormon religion -- teaches that all people have an afterlife, but one must be married to reach its highest parts.
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