18-05-2020 16:53 via sltrib.com

Crews lowering Angel Moroni statue on Salt Lake Temple

Moroni is no fallen angel, but he is losing his lofty perch atop the Salt Lake Temple.Temporarily.Workers began bringing down the golden statue Monday so crews can repair it after March’s magnitude 5.7 earthquake knocked the trumpet from its hand.“This has long been planned as part of the temple renovation, but the timeline to do so was accelerated following the earthquake in March,” Daniel Woodruff, spokesman for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, said Monday in
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