Moroni Always Faces East

Moroni Always Faces East

(Except When He Doesn’t)

Tradition says that the Angel Moroni statue faces east, the direction that Christ is to come from when he returns to earth a second time, as a symbolic herald of that return. The majority of statues do face east, meaning the direction between North East and South East, with a large percentage of them facing directly east. However, in most cases the Angel Moroni will be placed in a manner that compliments the look of the temple and its surroundings. This has led to Angel Moroni proclaiming the Good News of the Gospel in almost every direction.

Total # Statues Facing Each Direction

Alphabetical Listing of Statue Directions

121		ENE	Aba Nigeria Temple
		NbW	Abidjan Côte d’Ivoire Temple
117		NEbN	Accra Ghana Temple
89		E	Adelaide Australia Temple
		–	Alabang Philippines Temple
73		E	Albuquerque New Mexico Temple
54		ENE	Anchorage Alaska Temple
			Antananarivo Madagascar Temple
		–	Antofagasta Chile Temple
22		NNE	Apia Samoa Temple
22		EbS	Arequipa Peru Temple
112		EbN	Asunción Paraguay Temple
			Austin Texas Temple
21		E	Atlanta Georgia Temple
		–	Auckland New Zealand Temple
		–	Bacolod Philippines Temple
		–	Bahía Blanca Argentina Temple Temple
		–	Bangkok Thailand Temple
			Barcelona Spain Temple
161		ENE	Barranquilla Colombia Temple
94		WSW	Baton Rouge Louisiana Temple
			Barcelona Spain Temple
		ESE	Belém Brazil Temple
		–	Belo Horizonte Brazil Temple
		–	Bengaluru India Temple
			Benin City Nigeria Temple
–		–	Bentonville Arkansas Temple
9		EbS	Bern Switzerland Temple
66		E	Billings Montana Temple
98		E	Birmingham Alabama Temple
			Birmingham England Temple
61		E	Bismarck North Dakota Temple
57		EbS	Bogotá Colombia Temple
27		E	Boise Idaho Temple
100		EbS	Boston Massachusetts Temple
47		E	Bountiful Utah Temple
		–	Brasília Brazil Temple
		–	Brazzaville Republic of the Congo Temple
139		E	Brigham City Utah Temple
115		E	Brisbane Australia Temple
			Brussels Belgium Temple
			Budapest Hungary Temple
39		E	Buenos Aires Argentina Temple
		–	Burley Idaho Temple
			Cagayan de Oro Philippines Temple
		E	Calgary Alberta Temple
		–	Cali Colombia Temple
		EbN	Campinas Brazil Temple
		–	Cape Town South Africa Temple
		EbN	Campinas Brazil Temple
6		–	Cardston Alberta Temple
		–	Casper Wyoming
133		ENE	Cebu City Philippines Temple
159		E	Cedar City Utah Temple
35		N	Chicago Illinois Temple
71		E	Ciudad Juárez Mexico Temple
			Cleveland Ohio Temple
		–	Cobán Guatemala Temple
82		EbS	Cochabamba Bolivia Temple
			Cody Wyoming Temple
55		E	Colonia Juárez Chihuahua Mexico Temple
107		E	Columbia River Washington Temple
62		NEbE	Columbia South Carolina Temple
60		NE	Columbus Ohio Temple
160		EbN	Concepción Chile Temple
118		ESE	Copenhagen Denmark Temple
145		ESE	Córdoba Argentina Temple
			Culiacán Mexico Temple
126		EbN	Curitiba Brazil Temple
			Cusco Peru Temple
30		S	Dallas Texas Temple
		–	Davao Philippines Temple
40		E	Denver Colorado Temple
		–	Deseret Peak Utah Temple
63		NEbE	Detroit Michigan Temple
129		E	Draper Utah Temple
			Dubai United Arab Emirates Temple
168		SW	Durban South Africa Temple
67		E	Edmonton Alberta Temple
		–	Elko Nevada Temple
		–	Ephraim Utah Temple
		–	Farmington New Mexico Temple
		N	Feather River California Temple
153		E	Fort Collins Colorado Temple
143		E	Fort Lauderdale Florida Temple
			Fort Worth Texas Temple
164		WNW	Fortaleza Brazil Temple
41		E	Frankfurt Germany Temple
		–	Freetown Sierra Leone Temple
33		EbN	Freiberg Germany Temple
78		E	Fresno California Temple
33		EbN	Freiberg Germany Temple
88		SEbE	Fukuoka Japan Temple

		–	Grand Junction Colorado
132		NE	The Gila Valley Arizona Temple
142		E	Gilbert Arizona Temple
105		EbN	Guadalajara Mexico Temple
32		NWbN	Guatemala City Guatemala Temple
58		ESE	Guayaquil Ecuador Temple
64		NNE	Halifax Nova Scotia Temple
11		–	Hamilton New Zealand Temple
		–	Harare Zimbabwe Temple
155			Hartford Connecticut Temple
			Heber Valley Utah Temple
			Helena Montana
124		E	Helsinki Finland Temple
72		E	Hermosillo Sonora Mexico Temple
48		E	Hong Kong China Temple
97		NEbE	Houston Texas Temple
8		EbN	Idaho Falls Idaho Temple
148		E	Indianapolis Indiana Temple
36		SSE	Johannesburg South Africa Temple
20		E	Jordan River Utah Temple
			Kananga Democratic Republic of the Congo Temple
137		E	Kansas City Missouri Temple
163			Kinshasa Democratic Republic of the Congo Temple
			Knoxville Tennessee Temple
70		NEBN	Kona Hawaii Temple
			Kumasi Ghana Temple
134		NE	Kyiv Ukraine Temple
			Lagos Nigeria Temple
5			Laie Hawaii Temple
43		E	Las Vegas Nevada Temple
			La Paz Bolivia Temple
			Layton Utah Temple
			Lima Peru Los Olivos Temple
38			Lima Peru Temple
			Lindon Utah Temple
166		ENE	Lisbon Portugal Temple
2			Logan Utah Temple
12		EbN	London England Temple
10		NEbE	Los Angeles California Temple
76		ENE	Louisville Kentucky Temple
109		E	Lubbock Texas Temple
			Lubumbashi Democratic Republic of the Congo Temple
			Maceió Brazil Temple
56		ESE	Madrid Spain Temple
			Managua Nicaragua Temple
138		NE	Manaus Brazil Temple
119		WbS	Manhattan New York Temple
29		W	Manila Philippines Temple
3			Manti Utah Temple
			McAllen Texas Temple
79		E	Medford Oregon Temple
90		E	Melbourne Australia Temple
80		E	Memphis Tennessee Temple
A1			Mendoza Argentina Temple
92		EbS	Mérida Mexico Temple
158		S	Meridian Idaho Temple
7		–	Mesa Arizona Temple
26		SbW	Mexico City Mexico Temple
			Mexico City Benemérito Mexico Temple
		–	Miraflores Guatemala City Guatemala Temple
			Missoula Montana Temple
			Modesto California Temple
110		NE	Monterrey Mexico Temple
103		NEbE	Montevideo Uruguay Temple
53		E	Monticello Utah Temple
			Montpelier Idaho Temple
86		E	Montreal Quebec Temple
		–	Moses Lake Washington Temple
49		E	Mount Timpanogos Utah Temple
		–	Nairobi Kenya Temple
84		EbS	Nashville Tennessee Temple
113		W	Nauvoo Illinois Temple
		–	Neiafu Tonga Temple
122		ENE	Newport Beach California Temple
23		SSW	Nuku’alofa Tonga Temple
13			Oakland California Temple
74		SEbS	Oaxaca Mexico Temple
14		E	Ogden Utah Temple
		–	Okinawa Japan Temple
95		ENE	Oklahoma City Oklahoma Temple
130		E	Oquirrh Mountain Utah Temple
		–	Orem Utah Temple
46		E	Orlando Florida Temple
			Oslo Norway Temple
		–	Pago Pago American Samoa Temple
77		E	Palmyra New York Temple
127		NEbE	Panama City Panama Temple
25		EbN	Papeete Tahiti Temple
156		–	Paris France Temple
146		E	Payson Utah Temple
106		E	Perth Australia Temple
152		E	Philadelphia Pennsylvania Temple
		–	Phnom Penh Cambodia Temple
144		E	Phoenix Arizona Temple
		–	Pittsburgh Pennsylvania Temple
170		WbS	Pocatello Idaho Temple
		–	Port Moresby Papua New Guinea Temple
		–	Port Vila Vanuatu Temple
165		–	Port-au-Prince Haiti Temple
42		E	Portland Oregon Temple
102		E	Porto Alegre Brazil Temple
		–	Praia Cabo Verde Temple
52		E	Preston England Temple
150		E	Provo City Center Temple
15		ESE	Provo Utah Temple
			Puebla Mexico Temple
			Querétaro Mexico
136		E	Quetzaltenango Guatemala Temple
		NEbE	Quito Ecuador Temple
68		WbS	Raleigh North Carolina Temple
101		ENE	Recife Brazil Temple
			Red Cliffs Utah Temple
116		E	Redlands California Temple
65		E	Regina Saskatchewan Temple
81		E	Reno Nevada Temple
125		E	Rexburg Idaho Temple
		W	Richmond Virginia Temple
		E	Rio de Janeiro Brazil Temple
162		EbS	Rome Italy Temple
			Russia Temple
123		E	Sacramento California Temple
4		E	Salt Lake Temple
			Salta Argentina Temple
		–	Salvador Brazil Temple
120		EbN	San Antonio Texas Temple
45		EbS	San Diego California Temple
87		ENE	San José Costa Rica Temple
		–	San Juan Puerto Rico Temple
			San Luis Potosí Mexico Temple
		–	San Pedro Sula Honduras Temple
135		E	San Salvador El Salvador Temple
			Santa Cruz Bolivia
24		E	Santiago Chile Temple
			Santiago Chile West Temple
99		E	Santo Domingo Dominican Republic Temple
			Santos Brazil Temple
17		SEbE	São Paulo Brazil Temple
			São Paulo Brazil East Temple
151		E	Sapporo Japan Temple
1			Saratoga Springs Utah Temple
19		W	Seattle Washington Temple
37		SSE	Seoul Korea Temple
			Shanghai China Temple
			Singapore Republic of Singapore Temple
		–	Smithfield Utah
108		W	Snowflake Arizona Temple
59		W	Spokane Washington Temple
1		–	St. George Utah Temple
50		E	St. Louis Missouri Temple
69		E	St. Paul Minnesota Temple
154		W	Star Valley Wyoming Temple
34		S	Stockholm Sweden Temple
91		E	Suva Fiji Temple
28		E	Sydney Australia Temple
			Syracuse Utah Temple
31		WbN	Taipei Taiwan Temple
			Tallahassee Florida Temple
			Tampa Florida Temple
83		ENE	Tampico Mexico Temple
			Tarawa Kiribati
			Taylorsville Utah Temple
141		E	Tegucigalpa Honduras Temple
			Teton River Idaho Temple
114		E	The Hague Netherlands Temple
149		SEbS	Tijuana Mexico Temple
18		NE	Tokyo Japan Temple
44		E	Toronto Ontario Temple
			Torreón Mexico
147			Trujillo Peru Temple
157		N	Tucson Arizona Temple
75		EbS	Tuxtla Gutiérrez Mexico Temple
128		E	Twin Falls Idaho Temple
			Urdaneta Philippines Temple
131		NE	Vancouver British Columbia Temple
93		E	Veracruz Mexico Temple
51		E	Vernal Utah Temple
			Vienna Austria Temple
85		EbS	Villahermosa Mexico Temple
			Vitória Brazil Temple
16		E	Washington D.C. Temple
			Wellington New Zealand Temple
		–	Willamette Valley Oregon
169			Winnipeg Manitoba Temple
104		EbN	Winter Quarters Nebraska Temple
			Wichita Kansas Temple
			Yigo Guam Temple
		–	Yorba Linda California

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