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December 24, 2003

Angel Moroni, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1995

Photograph by James P. Blair

A statue of Angel Moroni stands atop the Salt Lake Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Mormons believe the angel handed Joseph Smith, founder of Mormonism, golden tablets. Smith's translation of these tablets became the Book of Mormon, the holy scripture of Mormons.

(Photographed on assignment for, but not published in, "Utah: Land of Promise, Kingdom of Stone," January 1996, National Geographic magazine)