The First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has announced the dates for the open house and dedication of the Bacolod Philippines Temple.
Temple Square is always beautiful in the springtime. Gardeners work to prepare the ground for General Conference.
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A media day will be held April 13, 2026, and invited guests will tour the temple April 14–15. The public is invited to attend an open house from April 16 to May 2 (excluding Sundays).
Elder Neil L. Andersen of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles will preside at the temple dedication, held on Sunday, May 31, 2026, at 10 a.m. (rebroadcast: 2 p.m.). The dedicatory session will be broadcast to all units in the Bacolod Philippines Temple district.
This house of the Lord was announced by President Russell M. Nelson in October 2019.
“As the Church grows, more temples will be built so that more families can have access to that greatest of all blessings, that of eternal life,” he said then. “We regard a temple as the most sacred structure in the Church.”
Nearly 900,000 Latter-day Saints in around 1,325 congregations call the Philippines home.
The Bacolod Philippines Temple is one of two temples in the Philippines to be dedicated in May 2026. The Davao Philippines Temple will be dedicated on May 3. Elder Dale G. Renlund of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles will preside at the dedication.
Operating temples in the country are in Cebu City, Manila and Urdaneta. Temples are under construction in Alabang, Bacolod, Cagayan de Or, Davao and Tacloban, and announced in Iloilo, Laoag, Naga, San Jose del Monte, Santiago and Tuguegarao City.
San José California Temple Will Be Known as the Sunnyvale California Temple
The First Presidency has announced that the San José California Temple will be renamed as the Sunnyvale California Temple.
As previously announced, this temple will be built on a 4.73-acre site at 771 West Fremont Avenue, Sunnyvale, California. Plans call for a single-story 30,000 square-foot temple and an accompanying distribution center.
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California is home to nearly 730,000 members of the Church, meeting in almost 1,100 congregations.
Including the Sunnyvale temple, there are 12 temples operating, under construction or announced in the state. Additional temples in California include the Bakersfield, Feather River, Fresno, Los Angeles, Modesto, Newport Beach, Oakland, Redlands, Sacramento, San Diego and Yorba Linda temple
Preliminary Work to Begin on the Fairview Texas Temple
Preliminary infrastructure work will begin soon on the eight-acre Church-owned property at 681 East Stacy Road in Fairview, Texas, where a temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will be built.
Dates for a groundbreaking service or the start of building construction have not been set. The Church is grateful for the cooperation of the Town of Fairview as we move forward with the permitting on this project.
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Temples differ from the Church’s meetinghouses (chapels). All are welcome to attend Sunday worship services and other weekday activities at local meetinghouses. The primary purpose of temples is for faithful members of the Church of Jesus Christ to participate in sacred ceremonies that unite families forever.
