The gold-plated Angel Moroni seems to be losing his perch atop Latter-day Saint temples. Not on the Salt Lake Temple, of course. That angel was taken down for repairs amid the iconic structure’s ...

Latter-day Saints believe that Moroni, the final prophet from ancient America in the Book of Mormon, visited Joseph Smith in a vision and told him where to find gold plates that yielded the faith ...

The figure recalls the appearance of the angel Moroni to an adolescent Joseph Smith, the founder of the Latter-day Saint tradition, in 1820s New York. The angel directed Smith to the location of the ...