The location and rendering of the future Houston Texas South Temple<\/a> were announced<\/a> Monday, Oct. 20, by The First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, according to a news release<\/a> on ChurchofJesusChrist.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n Planned as a single-story building of approximately 46,000 square feet, the Houston South temple will be located along Fort Bend Parkway, just north of Sienna Parkway in Missouri City, southeast Texas.<\/p>\n Also on the 15.7-acre site \u2014 which lies about 30 miles south of the operating Houston Texas Temple<\/a> \u2014 the Church will build a meetinghouse and accompanying ancillary building.<\/p>\n President Russell M. Nelson<\/a> announced<\/a> a house of the Lord for the southern part of Houston, Texas, on April 7, 2024. It was one of 15 new temple locations identified, totaling 350 in various stages worldwide.<\/p>\n Five of the state\u2019s 10 temples are operating, including the Dallas<\/a> (dedicated in 1984), Houston<\/a> (2000), Lubbock<\/a> (2002), San Antonio<\/a> (2005) and McAllen<\/a> (2023) temples.<\/p>\n Two temples, the Fort Worth<\/a> and Austin<\/a> temples, have been under construction since October 2023 and August 2024, respectively.<\/p>\n In addition to the Houston Texas South Temple, temples are in planning stages for Fairview<\/a>, announced in 2022, and El Paso<\/a>, announced in 2024.<\/p>\n In 1845, Elder Lyman Wight \u2014 then a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles \u2014 led a company of Latter-day Saints to central Texas. Missionaries preached in Texas in the 1850s, until missionary work came to a halt before the Civil War, and nearly 1,000 converts immigrated to Utah from Texas.<\/p>\n In 1898, about 300 Church members settled on land purchased by the Church in northeast Texas that would become the colony of Kelsey.<\/p>\n Houston\u2019s first branch was organized on Dec. 5, 1921, and the city\u2019s first stake was created on Oct. 11, 1953. Church membership in Texas has grown rapidly in recent decades \u2014 from 132,000 Latter-day Saints in 1985 to just over 210,000 in 2000.<\/p>\n Texas is now home to more than 390,000 Latter-day Saints in over 750 congregations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"20 Oct 2025, 2:13 p.m. MDT A rendering and site map have been announced for the second house…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,10984],"class_list":["post-13232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-temples"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/WF2W4FESHFGXBILU4F4UUBOHHE.png\")
A map of the Houston Texas South Temple site. | The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints The Church in Texas<\/p>\n