The Angel Moroni statue is going back to its perch on top of the iconic Salt Lake Temple, even though reconstruction of the temple is far from complete.
Workers ready a repaired and restored Angel Moroni statute for its trip back atop the iconic Salt Lake Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.Crews were working Tuesday morning to return the repaired and restored golden statue back to its rightful place after an, but the quake that year “sped up the process,” The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints said, as the 5.7 magnitude temblor “shook the trumpet out of Moroni’s right hand and caused other minor damage.
Latter-day Saints believe that Moroni, the final prophet from ancient America in the Book of Mormon, visited church founder Joseph Smith in a vision and told him where to find gold plates that yielded the faith’s signature text.
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