{"id":403157,"date":"2026-08-11T02:50:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T02:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/403157\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T02:50:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T02:50:17","slug":"fort-worth-texas-temple-open-house-dedication-dates-deseret-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/403157\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Worth Texas Temple open house, dedication dates \u2013 Deseret News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has <a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org\/article\/updates-for-temples-in-texas-and-spain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">announced<\/a> the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thechurchnews.com\/almanac\/temples\/fort-worth-texas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Fort Worth Texas Temple<\/a> will be dedicated January 2027.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Fort Worth temple, to be the sixth operating temple in Texas, will be dedicated Sunday, Jan. 10, in a dedicatory session that will be broadcast to all church units in the area. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">As currently scheduled and announced by the church, the Fort Worth Texas Temple will be the first temple dedicated in 2027.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The doctrine of the Church of Jesus Christ centers on the family, and essential to that doctrine is the temple, taught church President Dallin H. Oaks in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchofjesuschrist.org\/study\/general-conference\/2025\/10\/58oaks?lang=eng\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">recent general conference<\/a>. \u201cThe ordinances received there enable us to return as eternal families to the presence of our Heavenly Father.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"The location of the Fort Worth Texas Temple site.\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.83;cursor:pointer\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/SCGAD6MTGPAN5HGMLD2QS5F5CE.png\"  width=\"800\" height=\"438\"\/>The location of the Fort Worth Texas Temple site. | The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Fort Worth Texas Temple was first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchofjesuschrist.org\/study\/general-conference\/2021\/10\/59nelson?lang=eng\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">announced<\/a> in October 2021 general conference and is one of 10 temples in Texas that are currently under construction, in operation or in planning and design stages.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Construction of the Fort Worth temple began in October 2023 in <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/3nSmwfZ5k2M2XKJD6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Burleson, Texas<\/a>. The temple will be a single-story structure of approximately 30,000 square feet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Preceding the temple\u2019s dedication, the public will be welcome to tour the Fort Worth temple during a free public open house period that will run every Monday through Saturday from Thursday, Nov. 5, to Saturday, Nov. 21.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A media day for the temple will also be held Monday, Nov. 2, followed by private tours for invited guests on Nov. 3-4.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Learn more about the Fort Worth Texas Temple and others worldwide on the Church News\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thechurchnews.com\/almanac\/temples\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">temple almanac<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has announced the Fort Worth Texas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[11234,1881,116,118,117],"class_list":["post-403157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-church-of-jesus-christ","tag-faith","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403157","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=403157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}