{"id":177225,"date":"2026-02-24T00:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T00:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/177225\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T00:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T00:38:09","slug":"first-presidency-renames-houston-texas-south-temple-deseret-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/177225\/","title":{"rendered":"First Presidency renames Houston Texas South Temple \u2013 Deseret News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced Monday that the Houston Texas South Temple \u2014 first announced in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchofjesuschrist.org\/study\/general-conference\/2024\/04\/57nelson?lang=eng\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">April 2024 general conference<\/a> \u2014 will now be known as the Fort Bend Texas Temple.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This updated name reflects the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deseret.com\/faith\/2025\/10\/20\/church-announces-progress-on-temples-in-belgium-samoa-texas-oklahoma\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">temple\u2019s planned location<\/a> on a 15.7-acre lot along Fort Bend Parkway, just north of Sienna Parkway in Missouri City, Texas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Plans for the temple lot call for a single-story temple structure of approximately 46,000 square feet, accompanied by a Latter-day Saint meetinghouse and an ancillary building, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org\/article\/news-fortemples-in-brazil-thephilippines-texasand-south-dakota\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">news release<\/a> published Monday on <a href=\"http:\/\/churchofjesuschrist.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ChurchofJesusChrist.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"A site map for the Fort Bend Texas Temple.\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.83;cursor:pointer\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/4FWZQ2I6HFEX5MFWIMUGOLBIPQ.png\"  width=\"800\" height=\"438\"\/>A site map for the Fort Bend Texas Temple, previously named the Houston Texas South Temple. | The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThe temple is the gateway to the greatest blessings God has in store for each of us,\u201d the late President Russell M. Nelson said just moments before announcing this and 14 other temples in April 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThat is why we are doing all within our power, under the direction of the Lord, to make the temple blessings more accessible to members of the church.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Fort Bend temple is the church\u2019s ninth announced temple in Texas and the second in Houston.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It is one of 10 temples currently in operation, under construction or in planning and design stages in Texas and will help serve the state\u2019s more than 390,000 Latter-day Saints.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Of Texas\u2019 10 temples, five are in operation, three are under construction, and two others \u2014 including the Fort Bend temple \u2014 are in planning and design stages.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Learn more about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thechurchnews.com\/almanac\/temples\/houston-texas-south\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Fort Bend Texas Temple<\/a> and others worldwide on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thechurchnews.com\/almanac\/temples\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Church News\u2019 temple almanac<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced Monday that the Houston Texas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177104,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11234,1881,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-177225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-church-of-jesus-christ","tag-faith","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177225","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=177225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177225\/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=177225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}