{"id":470947,"date":"2026-10-19T22:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T22:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/470947\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T22:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T22:30:09","slug":"el-paso-texas-temple-site-announced-church-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/470947\/","title":{"rendered":"El Paso Texas Temple site announced \u2013 Church News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Exactly 42 years after the dedication of the Dallas Texas Temple<\/a> \u2014 to the day \u2014 the First Presidency has announced the site location for the El Paso Texas Temple<\/a> of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.<\/p>\n

Planned as a single-story building of approximately 22,300 square feet, the El Paso temple will be built on a 6.4-acre site at the northeast corner of Northern Pass Drive and Paseo del Norte Boulevard, in El Paso, Texas.<\/p>\n

A site map was also published with the location in an Oct. 19 news release<\/a> on ChurchofJesusChrist.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On Oct. 6, 2024, then-Church President Russell M. Nelson<\/a> announced<\/a> this temple for El Paso, one of 17 temple locations he identified in the October 2024 general conference<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"AThe location of El Paso in relation to the state of Texas. | Screenshot from Google Maps The Church in Texas<\/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 the Lone Star State has grown rapidly in recent decades \u2014 from 132,000 Latter-day Saints in 1985 to just over 210,000 in 2000.<\/p>\n

Located in the Southern U.S., Texas is now home to nearly 400,000 Latter-day Saints in more than 750 wards and branches.<\/p>\n

The state has 10 houses of the Lord dedicated, under construction or announced.<\/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

The Fort Worth Texas Temple<\/a> will be dedicated Jan. 10, 2027. Two other Texas temples are in construction phases \u2014 the Austin temple<\/a>, under construction since August 2024, and the Fairview temple<\/a>, since February 2026.<\/p>\n

That leaves two temples in planning stages \u2014 the Fort Bend<\/a> and El Paso<\/a> temples, announced in April 2024 and October 2024, respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Exactly 42 years after the dedication of the Dallas Texas Temple \u2014 to the day \u2014 the First…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":470948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139,10984],"class_list":["post-470947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news","tag-temples"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470947","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=470947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}