Denver Placed and Replace

Denver Placed and Replace

One temple had a statue placed, only to have it removed within a week.

At the Denver Colorado Temple, the statue was initially placed on 19 September 1985. Once the statue was in place, it was determined that it did not look right on the spire, which at that time was thicker than the statue was wide. The contrast made the statue look small, and at the same time caused the spire to look bulky.^[1]Bird, Twila. Build unto My Holy Name: The Story of the Denver Temple. Denver Colorado Area Public Communications Council, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, English, 1987.

For that reason, the statue was removed a few days later. The upper portion of the spire was removed, redesigned, and replaced with a new fiberglass section that was more slender and graceful looking. The statue was then re-placed on 16 October of 1985.^[2]Temple Engineer phone interview, Marvin Quist, 13 August 2019