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