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 |
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Number of Temples with an Angel Moroni | 168 Temples |
Number of Temples without an Angel Moroni | 118 Temples |
Number of Temples with Attached Spires or Towers | 271 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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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 |
Alabang Philippines Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Albuquerque New Mexico Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Anchorage Alaska Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Antofagasta Chile Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Apia Samoa Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Arequipa Peru Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Asunción Paraguay Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Atlanta Georgia Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
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 |
Bangkok Thailand Temple | 9 | Attached | No |
Barcelona Spain Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Barranquilla Colombia Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Baton Rouge Louisiana Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Belém Brazil Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Belo Horizonte Brazil Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Bengaluru India Temple | 5 | Attached | No |
Bentonville Arkansas Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Bern Switzerland Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Billings Montana Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Birmingham Alabama Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Birmingham England Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Bismarck North Dakota Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Bogotá Colombia Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Boise Idaho Temple | 6 | Detached | Yes |
Boston Massachusetts Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Bountiful Utah Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Brasília Brazil Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Brigham City Utah Temple | 2 | Attached | Yes |
Brisbane Australia Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Budapest Hungary Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Buenos Aires Argentina Temple | 6 | Detached | Yes |
Burley Idaho Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Cagayan de Oro Philippines Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Calgary Alberta Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Cali Colombia Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Campinas Brazil Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Cape Town South Africa Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Caracas Venezuela Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Cardston Alberta Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Casper Wyoming Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Cebu City Philippines Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Cedar City Utah Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Chicago Illinois Temple | 6 | Detached | Yes |
Cincinnati Ohio Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Ciudad Juárez Mexico Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Cleveland Ohio Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Cobán Guatemala Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Cochabamba Bolivia Temple | 5 | Attached | Yes |
Cody Wyoming Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
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 |
Copenhagen Denmark Temple | 1 | Detached | Yes |
Córdoba Argentina Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Cuernavaca Mexico Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Curitiba Brazil Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Dallas Texas Temple | 6 | Detached | Yes |
Davao Philippines Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Denver Colorado Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Des Moines Iowa Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Deseret Peak Utah Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
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 |
Elko Nevada Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Ephraim Utah Temple | 2 | Attached | No |
Fairbanks Alaska Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Farmington New Mexico Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Feather River California Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Fort Collins Colorado Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Fort Lauderdale Florida Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Fort Worth Texas Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Fortaleza Brazil Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Frankfurt Germany Temple | 1 | Detached | Yes |
Freetown Sierra Leone Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Freiberg Germany Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Fresno California Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Fukuoka Japan Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Gilbert Arizona Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Grand Junction Colorado Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Grand Rapids Michigan Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Guadalajara Mexico Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Guatemala City Guatemala Temple | 6 | Detached | Yes |
Guayaquil Ecuador Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Halifax Nova Scotia Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Hamilton New Zealand Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Harare Zimbabwe Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Harrisburg Pennsylvania Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Hartford Connecticut Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Heber Valley Utah Temple | 2 | Attached | No |
Helena Montana Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Helsinki Finland Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Hermosillo Sonora Mexico Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Hong Kong China Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Houston Texas Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Huehuetenango Guatemala Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Idaho Falls Idaho Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Indianapolis Indiana Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Jacksonville Florida Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
João Pessoa Brazil Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Johannesburg South Africa Temple | 6 | Detached | Yes |
Jordan River Utah Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Kansas City Missouri Temple | 2 | Attached | Yes |
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 |
Kyiv Ukraine Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
La Paz Bolivia Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Laie Hawaii Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Las Vegas Nevada Temple | 6 | Attached | Yes |
Layton Utah Temple | 2 | Attached | Yes |
Lethbridge Alberta Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Lima Peru Los Olivos Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Lima Peru Temple | 6 | Detached | Yes |
Lindon Utah Temple | 2 | Attached | No |
Lisbon Portugal Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Logan Utah Temple | 2 | Attached | No |
London England Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Londrina Brazil Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Lone Mountain Nevada Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Los Angeles California Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Louisville Kentucky Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Lubbock Texas Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Lubumbashi Democratic Republic of the Congo Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Maceió Brazil Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Madrid Spain Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Managua Nicaragua Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Manaus Brazil Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Manhattan New York Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Manila Philippines Temple | 6 | Detached | Yes |
Manti Utah Temple | 2 | Attached | No |
McAllen Texas Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
McKinney Texas Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Medford Oregon Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Melbourne Australia Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Memphis Tennessee Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Mendoza Argentina Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Mérida Mexico Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Meridian Idaho Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Mesa Arizona Temple | 0 | None | No |
Mexico City Benemérito Mexico Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Mexico City Mexico Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Miraflores Guatemala City Guatemala Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Missoula Montana Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Modesto California Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Monterrey Mexico Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Montevideo Uruguay Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Monticello Utah Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Montpelier Idaho Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Montreal Quebec Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Moses Lake Washington Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Mount Timpanogos Utah Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Nairobi Kenya Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Nashville Tennessee Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Natal Brazil Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Nauvoo Illinois Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Neiafu Tonga Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Newport Beach California Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Nuku'alofa Tonga Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Oakland California Temple | 5 | Attached | No |
Oaxaca Mexico Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Ogden Utah Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Okinawa Japan Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Oklahoma City Oklahoma Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Oquirrh Mountain Utah Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Orem Utah Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Orlando Florida Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Oslo Norway Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Pago Pago American Samoa Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Palmyra New York Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Panama City Panama Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Papeete Tahiti Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Paris France Temple | 0 | None | No |
Payson Utah Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Perth Australia Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Philadelphia Pennsylvania Temple | 2 | Attached | Yes |
Phnom Penh Cambodia Temple | 5 | Attached | No |
Phoenix Arizona Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Pittsburgh Pennsylvania Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Pocatello Idaho Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Port Moresby Papua New Guinea Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Port Vila Vanuatu Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Port-au-Prince Haiti Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Portland Oregon Temple | 6 | Attached | Yes |
Porto Alegre Brazil Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Praia Cape Verde Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Preston England Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Provo City Center Temple | 5 | Attached | Yes |
Provo Utah Rock Canyon Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Puebla Mexico Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Querétaro Mexico Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
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 |
Ribeirão Preto Brazil Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Richmond Virginia Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Rio de Janeiro Brazil Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Rome Italy Temple | 2 | Attached | Yes |
Sacramento California Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Salt Lake Temple | 6 | Attached | Yes |
Salta Argentina Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Salvador Brazil Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
San Antonio Texas Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
San Diego California Temple | 10 | Attached | Yes |
San Jose California Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
San José Costa Rica Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
San Juan Puerto Rico Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
San Luis Potosí Mexico Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
San Pedro Sula Honduras Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
San Salvador El Salvador Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Santa Cruz Bolivia Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Santiago Chile Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Santiago West Chile Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Santo Domingo Dominican Republic Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
São Paulo Brazil Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Sapporo Japan Temple | 5 | Attached | Yes |
Saratoga Springs Utah Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Seattle Washington Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Seoul Korea Temple | 6 | Detached | Yes |
Singapore Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Smithfield Utah Temple | 2 | Attached | No |
Snowflake Arizona Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Spokane Washington Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Springfield Missouri Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
St. George Utah Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
St. Louis Missouri Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
St. Paul Minnesota Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Star Valley Wyoming Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Stockholm Sweden Temple | 6 | Detached | Yes |
Suva Fiji Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Sydney Australia Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Syracuse Utah Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Tacoma Washington Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Taipei Taiwan Temple | 6 | Detached | Yes |
Tallahassee Florida Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Tampa Florida Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Tampico Mexico Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Tarawa Kiribati Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Taylorsville Utah Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Tegucigalpa Honduras Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Teresina Brazil Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Teton River Idaho Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
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 |
Toluca Mexico Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Toronto Ontario Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Torreón Mexico Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
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 |
Vancouver Washington Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Veracruz Mexico Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Vernal Utah Temple | 2 | Attached | Yes |
Villahermosa Mexico Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Washington D.C. Temple | 6 | Attached | Yes |
Wellington New Zealand Temple | 2 | Attached | No |
Wichita Kansas Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Willamette Valley Oregon Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Winchester Virginia Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Winnipeg Manitoba Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Winter Quarters Nebraska Temple | 1 | Attached | Yes |
Yigo Guam Temple | 1 | Attached | No |
Yorba Linda California Temple | 1 | Attached | No |