Editing Angel Moroni (section)

==Sculptors==
The [[Nauvoo Temple]] was the first Latter Day Saint temple to be crowned with a figure of an angel. This angel, not officially identified as Moroni, was a metal weathervane with gold leaf on the trumpet. It was designed by [[William Weeks]] (architect of the Nauvoo temple) and installed in January 1846.<ref>{{citation |last1= Leonard |first1= Glen M. |year= 2002 |title= Nauvoo: A Place of Peace, A People of Promise |place= Salt Lake City |publisher= Deseret Book |page= 253 }}</ref> This figure was positioned in a flying horizontal position holding an open book in one hand and a trumpet in the other.

[[Cyrus Dallin]] sculpted the first angel which was identified as Moroni. This angel was placed on the [[Salt Lake Temple]] during the capstone ceremony on April 6, 1892, one year to the day before the temple was dedicated. Dallin's design is a dignified, neoclassical angel in robe and cap, standing upright with a trumpet in hand. It stands 3.8 meters high, was molded in hammered copper from the plaster original, and was covered with 22-karat gold leaf. On March 18, 2020, the trumpet held by the statue of Angel Moroni on the Salt Lake Temple fell to the ground as a result of a 5.7 magnitude earthquake.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Toone |first1=Trent |title=Utah earthquake causes Angel Moroni on Salt Lake Temple to lose his trumpet |url=https://www.deseret.com/faith/2020/3/18/21185168/salt-lake-temple-angel-moroni-trumpet-lds-mormon-earthquake-utah |access-date=September 18, 2020 |work=[[Deseret News]] |date=March 18, 2020}}</ref> 

[[Torleif S. Knaphus]] fashioned a replica of the Dallin angel in the 1930s, but the casting of his angel wasn't placed on a temple until many years later. In 1983, castings of this angel were placed on the [[Idaho Falls Idaho Temple|Idaho Falls Temple]] (8th operating temple) and the [[Atlanta Georgia Temple|Atlanta Temple]] (21st operating temple).<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Hunter|first1=J. Michael|title=I Saw Another Angel Fly|journal=Ensign|date=January 2000|pages=32–33|url=http://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/facpub/1413/|access-date=January 6, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150106075138/http://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/facpub/1413/|archive-date=January 6, 2015|url-status=live}}</ref>

[[Millard F. Malin]]'s angel, which was placed on the [[Los Angeles California Temple|Los Angeles Temple]] in 1953, is known as the second Angel Moroni statue. His angel was cast in aluminum, stands 4.7 meters high, and weighs 953 kilograms. It has Native American features, wears a Mayan style cloak, and holds the gold plates in its left hand.<ref name=Hunter1>{{cite journal|last1=Hunter|first1=J. Michael|title=I Saw Another Angel Fly|journal=Ensign|date=January 2000|page=34|url=http://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/facpub/1413/|access-date=January 6, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150106075138/http://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/facpub/1413/|archive-date=January 6, 2015|url-status=live}}</ref>

[[Avard Fairbanks]] sculpted the third Angel Moroni statue, which was placed on the [[Washington D.C. Temple]], dedicated in 1974. This angel was created as a one-meter model which was sent to Italy where it was enlarged, cast in bronze, and gilded. The finished statue is 5.5 meters high and weighs over {{convert|4,000|lb|kg}}. The [[Seattle Washington Temple|Seattle Washington]], [[Jordan River Utah Temple|Jordan River Utah]], and [[México City México Temple|México City México]] temples each have a 4.6 meter casting of this statue.<ref name=Hunter1 />

Karl Quilter sculpted his first Angel Moroni in 1978. Two sizes were made, one three meters high, the other just over two meters. These statues were designed to reduce the cost and weight of the previous Angel Moroni statues, in order to become a standard part of the temple architecture. The Quilter angels are made of fiberglass and covered with gold leaf. In 1998, with the construction of many new smaller temples, Quilter was commissioned to create a new angel. This angel was similar in design to his previous angels, but he gave Moroni a slightly larger build, with his left hand opened and his body turned slightly to show more action. The [[Bern Switzerland Temple]]'s Angel Moroni is patterned after Quilter's 1998 design. Quilter's Angel Moroni is now on over one hundred temples around the world.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Hunter|first1=J. Michael|title=I Saw Another Angel Fly|journal=Ensign|date=January 2000|page=36|url=http://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/facpub/1413/|access-date=January 6, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150106075138/http://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/facpub/1413/|archive-date=January 6, 2015|url-status=live}}</ref>