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  Search Newsroom Archive   Resources   Events   Contact   Headquarters (USA)   -   English 25 September 2020   -   Salt Lake City   News Story A Window Into Past, Present and Self: Salt Lake Temple Renovation Enters the Foundation-Strengthening Phase Sealing addition, north entrance, and underground facilities removed to make way for extensive excavation  People passing through Main Street Plaza on Temple Square can now look through the construction project fence windows and see some 170 years into the past. The extensive renovation of the Salt Lake Temple, now in its ninth month, has laid bare much of the foundation stone first set by pioneering Latter-day Saints when the temple was in its infancy in 1853. “It’s special to see those stones. It makes me think of the times in which the stones were laid, the resources that the Saints had during those times and the struggles they were going through,” says Andy Kirby, director of historic ...

The Angel Moroni’s Ongoing Role in the Restoration: Dramatically Announced by an Earthquake By  Ronald P. Millett  · April 14, 2020 Since his appearance to the 17-year-old Joseph Smith on the night of September 21, 1823, the Angel Moroni has been a central figure and symbol of the ongoing Restoration of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. During 127 years atop the tallest spire of the Salt Lake Temple, the beautiful golden Angel Moroni statue had even survived without damage a F2 magnitude tornado in 1999 aimed directly at Temple Square. [1] Magnitude 5.7 Earthquake Strikes On March 18, 2020, just after the Salt Lake Temple seismic upgrade and renovation had begun on January 2, 2020, a 5.7 magnitude earthquake hit Utah centered near Magna, just ten miles away from the Temple. [2] The Angel Moroni statue had seemed immune to any signs of weather or seismic related damage for over 100 years. However, after this earthquake in 202...