A blogger at Wheat and Tares published an exploration of temples built by other branches of the Latter-day Saint restoration movement, noting that temple theology and practice shattered along with the movement after Joseph Smith's 1844 assassination. The post examines how various restoration branches developed different temple traditions.

While the LDS Church built a global network of private temples for sacred ordinances, other restoration branches including Community of Christ, the Bickertonites, and various fundamentalist groups developed their own distinct approaches to temple worship—or abandoned the practice entirely. The article traces how competing interpretations of Joseph Smith's temple theology shaped different restoration traditions.