Eleven Days Left to Walk Through It: the Fort Worth Texas Temple's Open House in Burleson Runs Through November 21 — Free, No Tickets, 9 to 8
Before it is dedicated in January and closed to all but eligible Church members, the new temple at 1851 Greenridge Drive is open to everyone: free walking tours of about 30 to 45 minutes, every day but Sundays, through Saturday, November 21.
BURLESON — The newest temple in Texas is, for eleven more days, a public building. The Fort Worth Texas Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, at 1851 Greenridge Drive in Burleson just south of Fort Worth, is holding its public open house through Saturday, November 21 — free, open to people of all faiths, with no tickets or reservations required, according to the Church's own open-house page, read by this desk. Tours run 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. every day except Sundays. The walking tour takes approximately 30 minutes by the Church's listing — the open-house site suggests planning about 45 minutes excluding wait times, which it notes are significantly shorter on weekdays — and the tour is wheelchair accessible, with comfortable shoes and modest dress recommended.
The open house is the one window the public gets. A media day was held November 2, with tours for invited guests on November 3 and 4, before the doors opened to the public on November 5. Once the temple is dedicated on January 10, 2027, it becomes the sixth operating temple in Texas for the Church — and, as with all dedicated temples, the interior is thereafter reserved for worship by eligible Church members, which is precisely why the pre-dedication open house exists: so neighbors of any faith can see inside first. The temple stands on a 9.37-acre site north of SW Hulen Street and Greenridge Drive, announced in October 2022; the dedication will be held in a single session, broadcast to congregations across the temple district.
For Tarrant County, the building is also simply a new landmark — the Church's first temple on Fort Worth's side of the Metroplex, in a county where its congregations have until now looked east to Dallas. The practical details for the remaining days: arrive on a weekday if you can, allow the full 45 minutes plus the line, and remember the doors close to the public for good on the evening of Saturday, November 21.
