The golden figurine pointed east at the top of many Mormon temples is the Angel Moroni The statues symbolize Moroni's role in restoring the gospel to the earth, according to the church Of Arizona ...

Angel Moroni will be leaving his perch atop the iconic Salt Lake Temple, being gingerly brought down by a giant crane on the south side of Temple Square in downtown Salt Lake City. The statue’s ...

“The trumpet on the Angel Moroni statue fell off, and there is minor displacement of some of the temple’s smaller spire stones,” said Daniel Woodruff, a spokesman for the church. The ...

SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — The angel Moroni was placed back onto his spot at the top of the central east spire of the Salt Lake Temple on Tuesday morning, April 2, marking a significant step toward ...

To some, the recent angel Moroni coffee flap is a reminder of Mormon Elder Paul H. Dunn’s warning about there being too many long-faced Mormons running around. A Taylorsville coffee shop ...

On Tuesday morning, Presiding Bishop Gérald Caussé blew an airhorn to signal to the workers that it was time to move the famous statue of the angel Moroni into place. A crane turned, bringing ...

As dozens of people looked on, crews used a towering crane to carefully lift and place a 7-foot-tall statue of the angel Moroni atop the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints temple under ...

Oregon Catholic Press said they were "unaware of the association with the Mormon angel Moroni," and that "we should have done more research". "We apologize for this embarrassing mistake," they ...

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — The Angel Moroni statue, that has been perched atop the Salt Lake Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for 128 years, was guarding something in the ...

Crowds gathered to watch the statue of the angel Moroni be hoisted atop a tower of the new temple, which was dedicated in 2012. Moroni is key to the rapidly growing church’s theology.