Many temples, although not all of them, have a wingless golden angel statue at the top steeples blowing a soundless trumpet. Some have mistaken it for the Angel Gabriel who visited the prophet Daniel in the Old Testament to interpret dreams. In the New Testament the Angel Gabriel announced the birth of John the Baptist and Jesus Christ as a heavenly messenger. The original designer did have that angel in mind, but it was quickly identified with...
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