SALT LAKE CITY — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints continues to make progress on its temples ... The angel Moroni statue is not a figure of worship, the LDS Church said, but ...

Once built, the temple would be only the second in North Carolina. The church built a temple outside Raleigh in 1999 ... significant sites for the Mormon faithful. They are considered “houses ...

KUTV — The Raleigh North Carolina Temple was rededicated on Sunday by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. President M. Russell Ballard, acting president of the Quorum of the Twelve ...

It will be the first Mormon temple in Pennsylvania. The Church of the Latter Day Saints recently placed an Angel Moroni statue atop the highest spire of its new temple. Located at 17th and Vine ...

Hundreds of people watched and some trained cameras on the golden statue of the angel Moroni as it was lowered onto the steeple of the LDS temple being built about a block away in northeast Twin ...

The majority of the modern LDS temples are topped with an 800-pound Moroni statue. According to a 2009 LDS church publication, the statues have copper rods running through to catch electricity.

PROVO — The Angel Moroni placed at the top of nearly every temple built by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has continuously evolved from its first placement on the top of the ...

Similar statues top other LDS Church temples. The Angel Moroni is significant in Mormon theology, as LDS Church founder Joseph Smith said he was visited by the angel in his youth. According to an ...

But more and more of its newer temples are being built without them. Latter-day Saints believe that Moroni, the final prophet from ancient America in the Book of Mormon, visited Joseph Smith in a ...

The Mormon temple ... church members in western North Carolina. Once built, the temple would be only the second in North Carolina. The church built a temple outside Raleigh in 1999, a $5 million ...