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| Washington D.C. Chapel |
1. Cyrus Dallin sculpted the first version for the Salt Lake Temple. It was covered in 22-karat gold leaf.
2. Millard F. Malin sculpted the second version for the Los Angeles California Temple. This statue also holds a replica of the gold plates in its left hand.
3. Avard Fairbanks sculpted the third version, and the Washington D.C. Temple was the first to display this version. This statue also holds the gold plates.
4. Karl A. Quilter sculpted the fourth version with the help of LaVar Wallgren. Two different molds were created.
5. Karl A. Quilter also sculpted the fifth version for the small-temple design. Several of these statues featured a scroll in the hand of Moroni.
6. Torlief Knaphus designed an Angel Moroni statue for the spire of the Washington D.C. chapel in the early 1930s. (My Note: I attended a Singles Ward in this Chapel in 1974 when I first moved back to Washington D.C. It still had the Angel Moroni on top when I attended there. I found this interesting because it was in the middle of kind of a rough neighborhood at the time) This mold was also used for three temples: Idaho Falls Temple, Atlanta Georgia Temple and the Boston Massachusetts Temple.
