The Deseret News reports that the gold statue lost part of its head and back in the Sunday afternoon lightning strike.. LDS Church spokesman Eric Hawkins confirmed the lightning strike. LDS temple ...

SALT LAKE CITY - Lightning has struck the angel Moroni statue on top of the Mormon temple in Bountiful. The Deseret News reports that the gold statue lost part of its head and back in the Sunday ...

SALT LAKE CITY - Lightning has struck the angel Moroni statue on top of the Mormon temple in Bountiful. The Deseret News reports that the gold statue lost part of its head and back in the Sunday ...

Latter-day Saints believe that the angel Moroni directed founding prophet Joseph Smith to buried gold plates that contained the Book of Mormon in 1823. He published the Book of Mormon in 1830 and ...

Latter-day Saints believe that the angel Moroni directed founding prophet Joseph Smith to buried gold plates that contained the Book of Mormon in 1823. He published the Book of Mormon in 1830 and ...

We did all the spires and the Angel Moroni," he said. "We did the State Library in the old Executive Office Building also, which was over 70,000 different pieces of ornament that all had to be ...

Sometime during the night of September 21–22, 1823, the angel Moroni appeared to the now 17-year-old Smith in his parents’ crowded cabin. Moroni instructed him to hike a couple of miles to a grassy ...

The Angel Moroni statue is going back to its perch on top of the iconic Salt Lake Temple, ... was hammered out of copper and covered with 22-karat gold leaf.

Angel Moroni statues on Latter-day Saints temples also act as lightning rods, though that is rare on the Salt Lake Temple because it is not the tallest object in Salt Lake City. Presiding Bishop ...

The Angel Moroni, the iconic statue that stood atop the Salt Lake City Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, was restored to its home.