Moroni
On top of the high steeple on most Mormon temples stands a golden statue of the angel Moroni, blowing a trumpet out to the world beyond. The founder of the faith, Joseph Smith, testified that Moroni appeared to him in 1823 and directed him to the golden plates that, once translated with a seer stone, became the Book of Mormon. According to Smith, the angel was the resurrected form of a prophet Moroni, the author of the plates who buried them in upstate New York before dying in battle. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, the largest denomination of Mormonism, owns the trademark on the image of Moroni blowing his trumpet.