Angel Moroni standing atop the spire of a temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, heralding in the Restoration, seems like a natural and required finishing touch to each house of the Lord.
But Moroni’s presence on temples dotting the globe is a relatively recent addition to these sacred buildings, only becoming mostly standard in the last few decades.
“We think of angel Moroni statues as standard for temples today, but that’s because they’ve been put on temples since the 1980s [when] the vast majority of temples have been built,” said Emily Utt, historic sites curator for the Church History Department.
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