Lightning Strikes Angel Moroni—Again
(From the Salt Lake Tribune)
Lightning has struck the Angel Moroni statue atop the LDS Church’s new Oquirrh Mountain Temple in South Jordan.
“A work crew will re-gild the statue as soon as possible,” church spokesman Scott Trotter said Monday.
The gold-leaf sculpture, 10-feet 6-inches tall, was singed Saturday.
But such acts of nature are not unheard of. Lightning hit the Moroni on American Fork’s Timpanogos Temple and on the Dallas Temple. The then-angel-less spire of the Provo Temple once set off a fire alarm after drawing a lightning bolt.
The Oquirrh Mountain Temple is open to public tours until Aug. 1 and will be formally dedicated Aug. 21-23.
Rosemary Winters