Tours of the renovated San Diego California Temple, which is open to the public, can be booked online at reservations.ChurchofJesusChrist.org or SanDiegoCaliforniaTemple.org.
The exhibition will be open to the public from Thursday, June 18th to Saturday, July 11th, excluding Sundays. Reservations are accepted Monday through Saturday, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Pacific Time. Waiting times may vary depending on the situation. Walk-in guests are also welcome.
The free tour includes a walking tour of the temple and is expected to last approximately 45 minutes. We recommend comfortable shoes and business casual wear. The Lord’s house is also wheelchair accessible.
According to reservation information, parking is limited at the temple and nearby walkable parking lot at 7474 Charmant Dr. in San Diego. Additional off-site parking is available in San Diego at 4655 Executive Dr. (just off Judicial Drive entrance). Shuttles are available from 9 AM to 7:30 PM. Due to limited parking, we ask that you carpool with at least 4 people per vehicle if possible.
After a Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is built or undergoes major renovation, it is opened for public viewing before it is dedicated or rededicated. After the dedication or rededication, members of the Church with a temple recommend may enter the church to perform sacred ordinances.
The San Diego California Temple will be rededicated at 10 a.m. Sunday, August 23, with a rebroadcast at 2 p.m., but the presiding authority has not been announced.
Several other temple public open houses are underway or scheduled to begin in the coming weeks. Due to limited parking, reservations are recommended for the Yorba Linda California Temple Open House. This open house will run through May 23rd.
Open houses that do not require reservations include the Bacolod Philippines Temple, the Willamette Valley Oregon Temple, and the Cleveland Ohio Temple. (See below for details about open house.)
About the San Diego California Temple
The San Diego California Temple is the third in California and the Church’s 45th temple still in operation.
On April 7, 1984, President Gordon B. Hinckley, then Second Counselor in the First Presidency, announced the temple at the beginning of the April 1984 general conference.
President Ezra Taft Benson, as President of the Church, presided over the temple’s groundbreaking ceremony on February 27, 1988. His second counselor, President Thomas S. Monson, dedicated the site.
After construction, an open house was held from February 20 to April 3, 1993. Of the 650,000 people expected to tour the building, the open house attracted about 720,000 people. The San Diego California Temple was dedicated in 23 sessions from April 25 to April 30, 1993. President Hinckley, then First Counselor in the First Presidency, presided over 13 sessions, and President Monson presided over the remaining 10 sessions.
The San Diego Temple closed on July 31, 2023 for extensive renovations. At the time of its closure, the temple was 169 feet tall and 72,000 square feet in size, with two central minarets surrounded by four smaller minarets. Highlighted by Interstate 5 in Southern California, the temple sits on 7.2 acres near the suburbs of La Jolla, north of San Diego.
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Twelve master homes are currently in operation, under construction or renovation in the state of California, on the Pacific coast of the western United States.
Eight were built: Los Angeles (completed in 1956), Oakland (1964), San Diego (1993), Fresno (2000), Redlands (2003), Newport Beach (2005), Sacramento (2006), and Feather River (2023).
The Yorba Linda California Temple open house is currently underway and this house of the Lord will be dedicated on June 7th.
Additionally, the Modesto California Temple is currently under construction since groundbreaking in October 2023. Two Houses of the Lord are in the planning stages: Sunnyvale Temple and Bakersfield Temple, both of which will be unveiled in April 2023.
Recent and Upcoming Temple Open Houses
Other recently concluded, ongoing, and announced temple open houses include:
The Bacolod Philippine Temple’s public open house was held from Thursday, April 16 to Saturday, May 2, excluding Sundays. Elder Neil L. Andersen of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles will dedicate the House of the Lord on Sunday, May 31.
The Montpelier Idaho Temple will be open to the public from Thursday, September 10th to Saturday, September 26th, excluding Sundays. More information about the open house can be found at reservations.ChurchofJesusChrist.org. The House of the Lord will be dedicated on October 18th. The presiding authority has not yet been announced. The Salt Lake Temple celebration, including temple tours, will be held from April 5 to October 1, 2027, Monday through Saturday from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Tickets are expected to go on sale closer to 2027.
