Purgatory

===Latter-day Saint Movement===
{{main article|Spirit world (Latter Day Saints)|plan of salvation (Latter Day Saints)|Mormon cosmology}}

[[The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]], teaches of an intermediate place for spirits between their death and their bodily resurrection. This place, called "the spirit world," includes "paradise" for the righteous and "prison" for those who do not know God. Spirits in paradise serve as missionaries to the spirits in prison, who can still accept salvation. In this sense, spirit prison can be conceptualized as a type of Purgatory. In addition to hearing the message from the missionary spirits, the spirits in prison can also accept posthumous baptism and other posthumous ordinances performed by living church members in temples on Earth. This is frequently referred to as "baptism for the dead" and "temple work."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.christiandataresources.com/mormonbeliefs2.htm|title=What Do Mormons Believe (The God Makers)?|website=www.christiandataresources.com|access-date=2012-10-10|archive-date=2012-06-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120625062533/http://www.christiandataresources.com/mormonbeliefs2.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> Members of the church believe that during the three days following Christ's crucifixion, he organized spirits in paradise and commissioned them to preach to the spirits in prison.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://eom.byu.edu/index.php/Spirit_Prison|title=Spirit Prison – The Encyclopedia of Mormonism|website=eom.byu.edu|language=en|access-date=2017-05-17|archive-date=2018-04-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180402053310/http://eom.byu.edu/index.php/Spirit_Prison|url-status=live}}</ref>