November 16, 2025, 7:56 PM MST
The Alabang Philippine Temple has begun its open house phase, and the public is invited to visit this house of the Lord from November 21 to December 13, excluding Sundays. A media day will be held prior to this on November 17th, and invited guests will tour the building from November 18th to 20th.
This structure is the fourth temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Philippines. It is also the second temple in Metro Manila, after the Manila Philippines Temple.
On the first day of the tour, November 17, four General Authority Seventies were in attendance and guided members of the media inside the temple. Elder James R. Rasband, deputy executive director of the temple department, joined the three members of the Philippines Area Presidency. Elder Carlos G. Revilo Jr., President. First Counselor, Elder Chi Hong (Sam) Wong. and Second Counselor Elder William K. Jackson.
In conjunction with Media Day, the Church’s Philippine Newsroom published photos of the interior and exterior of the Alabang Temple on ChurchofJesusChrist.org.
Elder David A. Bednar of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles plans to dedicate the Alabang Temple two months later, on January 18, 2026. It was exactly one year after the groundbreaking of the Tacloban City Temple in the Philippines.
With the dedication ceremony currently scheduled, Alabang Temple is expected to become the Church’s 213th operating temple.
Design and function
The 35,998-square-foot, two-story Alabang Temple is a cast-in-place concrete structure clad in white Oro Crystal granite from China. The art glass windows are decorated with motifs of the white jasmine flower, or sampaguita, the national flower of the Philippines. Manufactured in Jakarta, Indonesia, the glass is colored cream, amber, white, green and pink.
Inside the temple, a 100% wool area rug is laid over a nylon carpet. The rugs and carpets were made in Hong Kong, China. Honeygold limestone from China is also used, along with tiles manufactured in Cellione, Italy.
The decorative crystal, acrylic and brass light fixtures were manufactured in Hong Kong. Both the door and mill were manufactured in Manila and made from Kaya (African Mahogany) hardwood.
Just one mile west of Laguna de Bay Lake, the temple’s 2.62 acres include 90 trees of 10 species, as well as 32 species of shrubs and ground covers. The grounds include Manila palm, royal palm, banaba, taclao, catmon, botong, champaka, and kalachuchi trees.
This temple and church in the Philippines
On April 2, 2017, then Church President Thomas S. Monson announced the establishment of a second House of the Lord in Greater Manila.
The temple, later known as the Alabang Temple, was one of the last five temples announced by President Monson before his death in January 2018, and the last temple to be dedicated in this group.
On June 4, 2020, Elder Evan A. Schmutz presided over a groundbreaking ceremony for the Alabang Temple. At the time, Elder Schmutz was a General Authority Seventy and president of the Philippines Area. He achieved Honorary Member status in 2024.
This milestone marks the first time that two temples in the Philippines were under construction at the same time. Ground was broken for the Urdaneta temple a year and a half ago.
There are 14 master houses in the Philippines that are in operation, under construction, or in the planning stages.
Three of them are operational. The Manila Philippines Temple (dedicated in 1984), the Cebu City Philippines Temple (2010), and the Urdaneta Philippines Temple (2024).
In addition to the soon-to-be-dedicated Alabang Temple, four other temples are under construction: Davao City (groundbreaking in 2020), Bacolod City (2021), Cagayan de Oro City (2024), and Tacloban City (2025).
Accordingly, it was announced that six main houses in the country are in the planning stage: Naga (2022), Santiago (2022), Tuguegarao City (2023), Iloilo (2023), Laoag (2023), and San Jose del Monte (2025).
Since the Philippines was opened for missionary work in 1961, church growth in this country has been among the fastest growing in the world. By 1970, the church was based on eight major islands in the Philippines. In 1974, Elder Ezra Taft Benson, then of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, organized the first stake in the Philippines.
The country is currently home to approximately 900,000 Latter-day Saints in more than 1,300 local congregations. The Philippines, with its large number of Church members, has the fourth largest Latter-day Saint population in the world.
philippines alabang temple
Address: Corner of Filinvest Avenue and Corporate Avenue, Filinvest, Alabang, Muntinlupa, Philippines
Announcement: April 2, 2017, President Thomas S. Monson
Groundbreaking ceremony: June 4, 2020, presided over by Elder Evan A. Schmutz of the General Authority Seventy
Open to the public: November 21 to December 13, 2025, except Sundays
Scheduled dedication: January 18, 2026 Elder David A. Bednar of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
Site area: 2.62 acres
Building size: 35,998 square feet
Building height: 175 feet (including spire)
