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The First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has announced the open house and dedication dates for the Davao Philippines Temple.
A media day will be held Monday, March 23, 2026. Invited guests will tour the temple on Tuesday and Wednesday, March 24-25, 2026. The public open house will take place Thursday, March 26, through Friday, April 10, 2026 (excluding Sundays). The dedication ceremony will be held Sunday, May 3, 2026, at 10 a.m. (Rebroadcast: 2 p.m.).
Elder Dale G. Renlund of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles will preside at the dedication. It will be broadcast to all units in the Davao Philippines Temple district.
First announced by President Russell M. Nelson in October 2018, the Davao Philippines Temple will be the fifth operating temple in the country following the dedication of the Alabang Philippines Temple in January 2026.
“Building and maintaining temples may not change your life, but spending your time in the temple surely will,” President Nelson said following the Davao Temple announcement.
Operating temples are in Cebu City, Manila and Urdaneta Philippines. Temples are under construction in Bacolod, Cagayan de Oro and Tacloban, and announced in Iloilo, Laoag, Naga, San Jose del Monte, Santiago and Tuguegarao City.
Nearly 900,000 Latter-day Saints, meeting in around 1,400 congregations, reside in the Philippines.
Latter-day Saints consider each temple a house of the Lord and the most sacred place of worship on earth. 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, such as marriages, which unite families forever, and proxy baptisms on behalf of deceased ancestors who did not have the opportunity to be baptized while living.
