Temple Architectural Features
Temples are designed with different architectural features including spires, towers, cupolas, and domes. The generic term spire is used to describe these architectural features. Some temples also feature a statue of the angel Moroni atop the highest point of the building.
Temple Feature Statistics
Statistic | Value |
---|---|
Number of Temples with an Angel Moroni | 168 Temples |
Number of Temples without an Angel Moroni | 105 Temples |
Number of Temples with Attached Spires or Towers | 258 Temples |
Number of Temples with Detached Spires | 13 Temples |
Number of Temples with No Spire or Tower | 2 Temples |
Temple with the Most Spires | San Diego California Temple (10 spires) |
Temple Feature List
Temple | Number of Spires/Towers | Spire/Tower Attachment | Angel Moroni |
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San Diego California Temple | 10 | Attached | Yes |
Bangkok Thailand Temple | 9 | Attached | No |
Las Vegas Nevada Temple | 6 | Attached | Yes |
Portland Oregon Temple | 6 | Attached | Yes |
Salt Lake Temple | 6 | Attached | Yes |
Washington D.C. Temple | 6 | Attached | Yes |
Boise Idaho Temple | 6 | Detached | Yes |
Buenos Aires Argentina Temple | 6 | Detached | Yes |
Chicago Illinois Temple | 6 | Detached | Yes |
Dallas Texas Temple | 6 | Detached | Yes |
Guatemala City Guatemala Temple | 6 | Detached | Yes |
Johannesburg South Africa Temple | 6 | Detached | Yes |
Lima Peru Temple | 6 | Detached | Yes |
Manila Philippines Temple | 6 | Detached | Yes |
Seoul Korea Temple | 6 | Detached | Yes |
Stockholm Sweden Temple | 6 | Detached | Yes |
Taipei Taiwan Temple | 6 | Detached | Yes |
Cochabamba Bolivia Temple | 5 | Attached | Yes |
Provo City Center Temple | 5 | Attached | Yes |
Sapporo Japan Temple | 5 | Attached | Yes |
Bengaluru India Temple | 5 | Attached | No |
Oakland California Temple | 5 | Attached | No |
Phnom Penh Cambodia Temple | 5 | Attached | No |
Brigham City Utah Temple | 2 | Attached | Yes |
Kansas City Missouri Temple | 2 | Attached | Yes |
Layton Utah Temple | 2 | Attached | Yes |
Philadelphia Pennsylvania Temple | 2 | Attached | Yes |
Rome Italy Temple | 2 | Attached | Yes |
Vernal Utah Temple | 2 | Attached | Yes |
Ephraim Utah Temple | 2 | Attached | No |
Heber Valley Utah Temple | 2 | Attached | No |
Lindon Utah Temple | 2 | Attached | No |
Logan Utah Temple | 2 | Attached | No |
Manti Utah Temple | 2 | Attached | No |
Smithfield Utah Temple | 2 | Attached | No |
Wellington New Zealand Temple | 2 | Attached | No |
Aba Nigeria Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Abidjan Ivory Coast Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Accra Ghana Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Adelaide Australia Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Albuquerque New Mexico Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Anchorage Alaska Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Apia Samoa Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Arequipa Peru Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Asunción Paraguay Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Atlanta Georgia Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Barranquilla Colombia Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Baton Rouge Louisiana Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Belém Brazil Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Bern Switzerland Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Billings Montana Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Birmingham Alabama Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Bismarck North Dakota Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Bogotá Colombia Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Boston Massachusetts Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Bountiful Utah Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Brisbane Australia Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Calgary Alberta Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Campinas Brazil Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Caracas Venezuela Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Cebu City Philippines Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Cedar City Utah Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Ciudad Juárez Mexico Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Colonia Juárez Chihuahua Mexico Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Columbia River Washington Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Columbia South Carolina Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Columbus Ohio Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Concepción Chile Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Córdoba Argentina Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Curitiba Brazil Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Denver Colorado Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Detroit Michigan Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Draper Utah Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Durban South Africa Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Edmonton Alberta Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Feather River California Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Fort Collins Colorado Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Fort Lauderdale Florida Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Fortaleza Brazil Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Freiberg Germany Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Fresno California Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Fukuoka Japan Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Gilbert Arizona Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Guadalajara Mexico Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Guayaquil Ecuador Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Halifax Nova Scotia Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Hartford Connecticut Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Helsinki Finland Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Hermosillo Sonora Mexico Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Houston Texas Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Idaho Falls Idaho Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Indianapolis Indiana Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Jordan River Utah Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Kyiv Ukraine Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Lisbon Portugal Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
London England Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Los Angeles California Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Louisville Kentucky Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Lubbock Texas Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Madrid Spain Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Manaus Brazil Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Manhattan New York Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Medford Oregon Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Melbourne Australia Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Memphis Tennessee Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Mérida Mexico Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Meridian Idaho Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Mexico City Mexico Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Monterrey Mexico Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Montevideo Uruguay Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Monticello Utah Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Montreal Quebec Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Mount Timpanogos Utah Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Nashville Tennessee Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Nauvoo Illinois Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Newport Beach California Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Nuku'alofa Tonga Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Oaxaca Mexico Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Ogden Utah Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Oklahoma City Oklahoma Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Oquirrh Mountain Utah Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Orlando Florida Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Palmyra New York Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Panama City Panama Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Papeete Tahiti Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Payson Utah Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Perth Australia Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Phoenix Arizona Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Pocatello Idaho Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Porto Alegre Brazil Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Preston England Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Puebla Mexico Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Quetzaltenango Guatemala Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Quito Ecuador Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Raleigh North Carolina Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Recife Brazil Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Red Cliffs Utah Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Redlands California Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Regina Saskatchewan Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Reno Nevada Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Rexburg Idaho Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Richmond Virginia Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Rio de Janeiro Brazil Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Sacramento California Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Salta Argentina Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
San Antonio Texas Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
San José Costa Rica Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
San Salvador El Salvador Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Santiago Chile Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Santo Domingo Dominican Republic Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
São Paulo Brazil Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Saratoga Springs Utah Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Seattle Washington Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Snowflake Arizona Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Spokane Washington Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
St. Louis Missouri Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
St. Paul Minnesota Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Star Valley Wyoming Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Suva Fiji Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Sydney Australia Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Tampico Mexico Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Tegucigalpa Honduras Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
The Gila Valley Arizona Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
The Hague Netherlands Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Tijuana Mexico Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Tokyo Japan Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Toronto Ontario Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Trujillo Peru Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Tucson Arizona Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Tuxtla Gutiérrez Mexico Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Twin Falls Idaho Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Urdaneta Philippines Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Vancouver British Columbia Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Veracruz Mexico Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Villahermosa Mexico Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Winnipeg Manitoba Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Winter Quarters Nebraska Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Alabang Philippines Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Antofagasta Chile Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Auckland New Zealand Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Austin Texas Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Bacolod Philippines Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Bahía Blanca Argentina Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Bakersfield California Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Barcelona Spain Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Belo Horizonte Brazil Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Bentonville Arkansas Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Birmingham England Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Brasília Brazil Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Budapest Hungary Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Burley Idaho Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Cagayan de Oro Philippines Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Cali Colombia Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Cape Town South Africa Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Cardston Alberta Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Casper Wyoming Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Cleveland Ohio Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Cobán Guatemala Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Cody Wyoming Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Davao Philippines Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Deseret Peak Utah Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Elko Nevada Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Farmington New Mexico Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Fort Worth Texas Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Freetown Sierra Leone Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Grand Junction Colorado Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Grand Rapids Michigan Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Hamilton New Zealand Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Harare Zimbabwe Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Helena Montana Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Hong Kong China Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Huehuetenango Guatemala Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
João Pessoa Brazil Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Kaohsiung Taiwan Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Kinshasa Democratic Republic of the Congo Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Knoxville Tennessee Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Kona Hawaii Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
La Paz Bolivia Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Laie Hawaii Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Lethbridge Alberta Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Lima Peru Los Olivos Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Londrina Brazil Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Lone Mountain Nevada Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Lubumbashi Democratic Republic of the Congo Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Maceió Brazil Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Managua Nicaragua Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
McAllen Texas Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
McKinney Texas Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Mendoza Argentina Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Miraflores Guatemala City Guatemala Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Modesto California Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Montpelier Idaho Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Moses Lake Washington Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Nairobi Kenya Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Natal Brazil Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Neiafu Tonga Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Okinawa Japan Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Orem Utah Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Oslo Norway Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Pago Pago American Samoa Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Pittsburgh Pennsylvania Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Port Moresby Papua New Guinea Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Port Vila Vanuatu Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Port-au-Prince Haiti Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Praia Cape Verde Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Provo Utah Rock Canyon Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Querétaro Mexico Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Ribeirão Preto Brazil Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Salvador Brazil Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
San Juan Puerto Rico Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
San Luis Potosí Mexico Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
San Pedro Sula Honduras Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Santa Cruz Bolivia Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Santiago West Chile Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Singapore Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
St. George Utah Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Syracuse Utah Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Tallahassee Florida Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Tampa Florida Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Tarawa Kiribati Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Taylorsville Utah Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Teresina Brazil Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Teton River Idaho Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Torreón Mexico Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Vancouver Washington Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Wichita Kansas Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Willamette Valley Oregon Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Yigo Guam Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Yorba Linda California Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Copenhagen Denmark Temple | 1 | Detached | Yes |
Frankfurt Germany Temple | 1 | Detached | Yes |
Mesa Arizona Temple | 0 | None | No |
Paris France Temple | 0 | None | No |