{"id":471111,"date":"2026-10-20T01:44:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T01:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/471111\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T01:44:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T01:44:12","slug":"el-paso-texas-temple-site-announced-deseret-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/471111\/","title":{"rendered":"El Paso Texas Temple site announced \u2013 Deseret News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has <a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org\/article\/location-announced-for-the-el-paso-texas-temple\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">announced the site<\/a> of a tenth temple in Texas \u2014 the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thechurchnews.com\/almanac\/temples\/el-paso-texas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">El Paso Texas Temple<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The future El Paso temple, <a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org\/article\/october-2024-general-conference-new-temples\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">announced in 2024<\/a>, will be located at Northern Pass Drive and Paseo del Norte Boulevard in west El Paso.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The temple site will be 6.4-acre site, with the temple being a single-story structure of about 22,300 square feet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It is \u201cso exciting,\u201d local church member Adam McDavitt <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thechurchnews.com\/almanac\/temples\/el-paso-texas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.thechurchnews.com\/almanac\/temples\/el-paso-texas\/\">told the Church News<\/a> shortly after the temple was announced in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019ve been told by church leaders over the years that eventually there would be a temple in El Paso. \u2026 We are ready to grow the church in this part of the vineyard, and we have been praying for it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The church currently has 10 announced temples in Texas, of which: <\/p>\n<p>Five are dedicated.Two are under construction.Two are in planning and design stages.One is scheduled for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deseret.com\/faith\/2026\/08\/10\/forth-worth-texas-temple-dedication-open-house-dates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.deseret.com\/faith\/2026\/08\/10\/forth-worth-texas-temple-dedication-open-house-dates\/\">dedication in January 2027<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This new temple will help serve local members whose current nearest temple is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thechurchnews.com\/almanac\/temples\/ciudad-juarez-mexico\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ciudad Ju\u00e1rez Mexico Temple<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">More information about the El Paso Texas Temple and others worldwide is available 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 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has announced the site of a tenth temple in Texas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471112,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[11234,138,140,139,1881],"class_list":["post-471111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-church-of-jesus-christ","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news","tag-faith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471111","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=471111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}