The temple serves over forty-four thousand Latter-day Saints in east Texas, and a few congregations in southwest Louisiana.

After the September 1997 announcement that the LDS Church would build a temple in Houston, the search began for an appropriate site.

[2] As the most visible symbol of the LDS Church’s presence in the national capital until the dedication of the Washington D.C. Temple in 1974, the Washington Chapel featured a golden figure of an angel blowing a trumpet atop its spire—a symbol typically reserved for temples.

In 1977 the Washington Chapel was sold to the Unification Church, 20 years before the Houston Texas Temple was announced.

[3] LDS Church president Gordon B. Hinckley dedicated the Houston Texas Temple on August 26, 2000.