{"id":176267,"date":"2026-02-23T09:23:48","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T09:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/176267\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T09:23:48","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T09:23:48","slug":"ground-broken-for-fairview-texas-temple-church-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/176267\/","title":{"rendered":"Ground broken for Fairview Texas Temple \u2013 Church News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ground has been broken for the Fairview Texas Temple<\/a> of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.<\/p>\n

Elder Jonathan S. Schmitt<\/a>, a General Authority Seventy and first counselor in the Church\u2019s United States Southwest Area presidency, presided over the ceremony on Saturday, Feb. 21.<\/p>\n

Information and photos about the groundbreaking were published Feb. 21<\/a> on ChurchofJesusChrist.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"ElderElder Jonathan S. Schmitt \u2014 a General Authority Seventy and first counselor in the Church’s United States Southwest Area presidency \u2014 addresses attendees at the groundbreaking ceremony for the Fairview Texas Temple in Fairview, Texas, on Saturday, Feb. 21, 2026. | The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints <\/p>\n

In his dedicatory prayer on the site, Elder Schmitt pleaded, \u201cWe pray this will be a place where all Thy children may come to feel a unique outpouring of Thy divine presence, power and peace.\u201d<\/p>\n

He asked for blessings to be \u201cpoured out upon this community\u201d during and after the temple\u2019s construction. \u201cWe pray a blessing to be upon all Thy children in this beautiful community of Fairview, Texas, and surrounding municipalities. We pray that hearts will be softened and that all Thy children will feel of Thy light, grace and goodness that will emanate from this holy place.\u201d<\/p>\n

Just as this house of the Lord bears the inscription \u201cHoliness to the Lord,\u201d said Elder Schmitt, local Latter-day Saints can become increasingly holy through God\u2019s help.<\/p>\n

\"AA painting of Jesus Christ is displayed inside a local meetinghouse in Fairview, Texas, on Saturday, Feb. 21, 2026, during the groundbreaking ceremony for the Fairview Texas Temple on Saturday, Feb. 21, 2026. | The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints <\/p>\n

\u201cBless us to emulate the character of Christ \u2014 He who is the Holy One, the Prince of Peace, faithful and true, the Light of the World, our Helper, Good Shepherd, refuge from the storm, the strength to the needy in his distress, and the High Priest of All Good Things To Come.\u201d<\/p>\n

About the Fairview temple<\/p>\n

The Fairview temple is planned<\/a> as approximately 30,000-square-foot edifice. It will be built on 8.16 acres at 681 E. Stacy Road, Fairview.<\/p>\n

This will be the third house of the Lord in Texas\u2019 Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metropolitan area. It joins the Dallas temple<\/a>, dedicated in October 1984, and the Fort Worth temple<\/a>, under construction since October 2023.<\/p>\n

On Oct. 2, 2022, then-Church President Russell M. Nelson<\/a> announced<\/a> a house of the Lord for Prosper, Texas, one of 18 temple locations he identified in his general conference message<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The First Presidency announced a site location<\/a> \u2014 and a new name of \u201cMcKinney Texas Temple\u201d \u2014 on Dec. 4, 2023. It was renamed<\/a> the Fairview Texas Temple on April 28, 2025, to reflect its planned location.<\/p>\n

\"ElderElder Jonathan S. Schmitt \u2014 a General Authority Seventy and first counselor in the United States Southwest Area presidency, fifth from left \u2014 and his wife, Sister Alexis Schmitt, fourth from left, prepare to ceremonially turn the soil on the site of the Fairview Texas Temple with local Church leaders and members in Fairview, Texas, on Saturday, Feb. 21, 2026. | The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints The Church in Texas<\/p>\n

Of the 10 houses of the Lord in various stages in Texas, five are dedicated: the Dallas<\/a> (dedicated in 1984), Houston<\/a> (2000), Lubbock<\/a> (2002), San Antonio<\/a> (2005) and McAllen<\/a> (2023) temples.<\/p>\n

The Fairview temple joins two other temples in their construction phase: the Fort Worth<\/a> and Austin<\/a> temples, whose grounds were broken October 2023 and August 2024, respectively.<\/p>\n

That leaves two Texas temples in planning stages: in southern Houston<\/a>, announced April 2024, and El Paso<\/a>, announced October 2024.<\/p>\n

\"YouthYouth from the Allen Texas Stake of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints attend the groundbreaking ceremony for the Fairview Texas Temple in Fairview, Texas, on Saturday, Feb. 21, 2026. | The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints <\/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, about 100 miles east of Fairview.<\/p>\n

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

Today, Texas is home to more than 390,000 Latter-day Saints in over 750 wards and branches.<\/p>\n

\"AnAn exterior rendering of the Fairview Texas Temple. | The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints \"AThe site location map for the Fairview Texas Temple. | The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints \"AnAn exterior rendering of the Fairview Texas Temple is displayed inside a local meetinghouse in Fairview, Texas, on Saturday, Feb. 21, 2026, during the temple’s groundbreaking ceremony on Saturday, Feb. 21, 2026. | The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ground has been broken for the Fairview Texas Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176268,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[10984,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-176267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-temples","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176267","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=176267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}