The Hong Kong China Temple is the only temple to have had an angel Moroni statue permanently removed from its design as part of a renovation Both the Sydney Australia Temple and Boston Massachusetts Temple were dedicated without angel Moroni statues due to pending litigation. In both cases, rulings allowed for the angels to be installed about a year after their respective dedications. These features were not part of the original design because the temple was built within an existing Church-owned building that was not designed as a temple.
The Monticello Utah Temple is the only temple to have had a white angel Moroni. White enamel-covered fiberglass statues were to decorate the "smaller and remote-area" temples as conceived by President Gordon B. Hinckley, but the Monticello statue proved too difficult to see, especially in cloudy weather. It was replaced about a year later by a larger, traditional gold-leafed statue, which has remained the standard. Only five temples feature an angel Moroni statue holding the gold plates.
The Atlanta Georgia Temple was originally designed with no spire or angel Moroni, but the Church revised its plans, and nearly every temple built since featured an angel Moroni statue until The statue was removed in when the chapel was sold currently owned by the Unification Church and is now on display in the Museum of Church History and Art.
The Nauvoo Temple was the first to have an angel though not identified as Moroni , and it is the only temple to have a horizontal or flying angel which functioned as a weathervane. The angel was inspired by Revelations , which says, "And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people.
Not all temples have an east-facing angel Moroni statue. In fact, the angels on several temples face nearly due west because of lot orientation or the placement of spires. Due to its height and conductivity, it is not unheard of for an angel Moroni statue to be struck by lightning during a thunderstorm just like a lightning rod.
Design and Construction The St. George Utah Temple originally followed the design of the Nauvoo Temple and Kirtland Temple , featuring an assembly hall and an instruction hall partitioned for presenting the endowment. Temple were built with six endowment rooms to accommodate high capacity use by the Saints.
A large priesthood assembly room was standard in all temples until the Salt Lake Temple was dedicated. Since then, very few temples have included such a room, representing a design transition that focused more on ordinance work and less on general assembly. Shortly after Brigham Young's death, the original "squatty" tower of the St.
George Utah Temple , which he disliked, was struck by lightning and burned to its base. The majority of the statues do face east, but not all. Download a larger image at Photogent. I was just told that there are some of our LDS temples that are not allowed the Angel Moroni on them. Is that true? I am LDS and would like to know if that is true. We live in SD. George Utah. The Paris temple, currently under construction, will also not have an angel Moroni.
Sometimes, like Paris, this is due to local laws and regulations. It was the Atlanta Temple that started the tradition of putting the statue on all temples.
The front of the Oakland Temple is the north elevation, and the front of the Los Angeles Temple is the southeast elevation. The Stockholm Temple faces due south, which, at such a northern latitude, would be the direction of the most light; its front is, therefore, the south elevation.
Nauvoo is an interesting case as it has the phrase on both the east and west elevations of the building. We know that the original Nauvoo temple had the phrase on the west elevation but no photographic record or architectural drawings exist of the east elevation, so the design of the east elevation of the modern Nauvoo Temple is guesswork.
Thus, in the case of Nauvoo, you can take your pick on the west or the east elevation as the "front". In more modern times, we do know that it is not always a member of the First Presidency that performs this ceremony.
Packer President of the Quorum of the Twelve at the time. He also placed the first cornerstone. Why is the angel Moroni always facing east when placed on the temples? Is it possible to be sealed to just my mother?
Was the work done in the original Nauvoo Temple the same that is done today? Is it okay to go to the temple to just sit and ponder?
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