{"id":177103,"date":"2026-02-23T22:52:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T22:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/177103\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T22:52:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T22:52:07","slug":"new-name-announced-for-houston-texas-south-temple-church-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/177103\/","title":{"rendered":"New name announced for Houston Texas South Temple \u2013 Church News"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Houston Texas South Temple<\/a> of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has been renamed the Fort Bend Texas Temple<\/a> by the First Presidency.<\/p>\n

This updated name \u2014 announced Feb. 23<\/a> on ChurchofJesusChrist.org<\/a> \u2014 draws from the structure\u2019s future residence in Fort Bend County. It\u2019s also in the name of the road directly south of the temple site.<\/p>\n

As previously released<\/a>, this sacred edifice is projected as a single-story building of approximately 46,000 square feet.<\/p>\n

It will stand on a 15.7-acre site along Fort Bend Parkway, just north of Sienna Parkway in Missouri City, southeast Texas. A meetinghouse and accompanying ancillary building are also planned for the grounds.<\/p>\n

On April 7, 2024, President Russell M. Nelson<\/a> announced<\/a> this house of the Lord for southern Houston. It was one of 15 locations he identified in the April 2024 general conference<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Last Saturday, Feb. 21, ground was broken<\/a> for the Fairview Texas Temple<\/a> northeast of Dallas. Elder Jonathan S. Schmitt<\/a> \u2014 a General Authority Seventy and first counselor in the Church\u2019s United States Southwest Area presidency \u2014 presided over the ceremony and offered the dedicatory prayer on the site and construction process.<\/p>\n

\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 he prayed.<\/p>\n

About the Church in Texas<\/p>\n

The Southern U.S. state of Texas is home to 10 houses of the Lord operating, under construction and in planning stages.<\/p>\n

Five are operating: the Dallas<\/a> (dedicated in 1984), Houston<\/a> (2000), Lubbock<\/a> (2002), San Antonio<\/a> (2005) and McAllen<\/a> (2023) temples.<\/p>\n

Three are in their construction phase: the Fort Worth<\/a> (ground broken in October 2023), Austin<\/a> (August 2024) and Fairview<\/a> (February 2026) temples.<\/p>\n

The Fort Bend<\/a> temple, then, is one of two Texas temples in planning stages. The second was announced in October 2024 for El Paso<\/a>.<\/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 the state 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

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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Houston Texas South Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has been renamed the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177104,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,10984],"class_list":["post-177103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-temples"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177103","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=177103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}