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 ...

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 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 ...