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Elder [[Neil L. Andersen]] of the [[Quorum of the Twelve Apostles]] created the 100th [[Stake|stake]] in the Philippines—the Mandaluyong Philippines Stake, on 10 September 2017. [https://www.thechurchnews.com/2017/9/11/23212688/pioneering-members-help-lds-church-reach-major-milestone-in-the-philippines-100-stakes/ He said], "This is a special place. Do not underestimate who you are. The most important part of the Philippines is the people." | Elder [[Neil L. Andersen]] of the [[Quorum of the Twelve Apostles]] created the 100th [[Stake|stake]] in the Philippines—the Mandaluyong Philippines Stake, on 10 September 2017. [https://www.thechurchnews.com/2017/9/11/23212688/pioneering-members-help-lds-church-reach-major-milestone-in-the-philippines-100-stakes/ He said], "This is a special place. Do not underestimate who you are. The most important part of the Philippines is the people." | ||
| − | During a Facebook Live event in March 2018, [https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/church/news/filipino-saints-will-spread-the-church-worldwide-elder-rasband-says-in-facebook-live-event?lang=eng | + | During a Facebook Live event in March 2018, Elder [[Ronald A. Rasband]] said, "This is just the beginning. . . . The Philippines is going to be a source of huge strength for the future of this Church."[https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/church/news/filipino-saints-will-spread-the-church-worldwide-elder-rasband-says-in-facebook-live-event?lang=eng] |
When Elder [[D. Todd Christofferson]] of the [[Quorum of the Twelve Apostles]] visited the Philippines in June 2018, he said the growth of the Church in the Philippines is reflective of the character of the people. [https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/church/news/ministering-comes-naturally-to-filipino-saints-elder-christofferson-says?lang=eng He said], "They are very spiritual by nature." | When Elder [[D. Todd Christofferson]] of the [[Quorum of the Twelve Apostles]] visited the Philippines in June 2018, he said the growth of the Church in the Philippines is reflective of the character of the people. [https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/church/news/ministering-comes-naturally-to-filipino-saints-elder-christofferson-says?lang=eng He said], "They are very spiritual by nature." | ||
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Latest revision as of 16:51, 13 May 2024
On 2 October 2010, at the 180th general conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, President Thomas S. Monson announced the construction of a new temple in Urdaneta, Pangasinan, Philippines.
On April 28, 1961, President Gordon B. Hinckley, then of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, offered a prayer for the country. “What we will begin here will affect the lives of thousands and thousands of people in this island republic, and its effect will go on from generation to generation for great and everlasting good,” he said.
More than 870,000 Latter-day Saints live in the Philippines, spread throughout 128 stakes and 23 missions in this country of more than 118 million people. Urdaneta is located approximately 100 miles north of Manila on the island of Luzon. Luzon is the largest and most populated island in the Philippines. Latter-day Saints in the area are currently served by the Manila Philippines Temple, the first temple in the Philippines. The Urdaneta Philippines Temple is the third temple built in the Philippines. The second is the Cebu Philippines Temple. Other cities with temples currently operating, under construction, or announced are Alabang, Bacolod, Cagayan de Oro, Davao, Iloilo, Laoag, Naga, Santiago, Tacloban, and Tuguegarao.
The Church often re-aligns missions around the world to better facilitate missionary work. In September 2010, the ground was broken for the new mission home and office. In June 2011, the Philippines Baguio Mission was relocated to Urdaneta City, which offers a more central and accessible location for the members and missionaries of the mission. The new mission home and office are located next to the remodeled Urdaneta Philippines Stake Center.
Elder Neil L. Andersen of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles created the 100th stake in the Philippines—the Mandaluyong Philippines Stake, on 10 September 2017. He said, "This is a special place. Do not underestimate who you are. The most important part of the Philippines is the people."
During a Facebook Live event in March 2018, Elder Ronald A. Rasband said, "This is just the beginning. . . . The Philippines is going to be a source of huge strength for the future of this Church."[1]
When Elder D. Todd Christofferson of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles visited the Philippines in June 2018, he said the growth of the Church in the Philippines is reflective of the character of the people. He said, "They are very spiritual by nature."
Contents
Groundbreaking Ceremony
Senior Church leaders from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints joined with community and interfaith leaders in Urdaneta, Pangasinan, Philippines, on Wednesday, 16 January 2019, to break ground for the Urdaneta Philippines Temple. Elder Jeffrey R. Holland of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles presided at the ceremony. He was joined by Elder Evan A. Schmutz, Elder Michael John U. Teh, and Elder Taniela B. Wakolo of the Philippines Area Presidency. Attendance for the ceremony was by invitation only, with the general public invited to view the proceedings on Facebook Live.
The temple is located at MacArthur Highway, Barangay Nancayasan, Urdaneta City, Pangasinan, Philippines.
Open House and Dedication Announced
A public open house started on Friday, March 15, and continued through Saturday, March 30, 2024 (excluding Sundays). A media day was held on Tuesday, March 12, 2024, and invited guests toured the temple on Wednesday, March 13, and Thursday, March 14, 2024. Some 63,500 people from all over the Philippines came to see the temple during the open house, including key government officials, local industry and community leaders, and friends from other faiths.[2]
President Dallin H. Oaks, First Counselor in the First Presidency, presided at the dedication of the Urdaneta Philippines Temple on Sunday, April 28, 2024. It is the Church’s 190th worldwide and third in the Philippines.
Two sessions were held at 10 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. PHT. The dedicatory sessions were broadcast to all congregations in the Urdaneta Philippines Temple District.
President Oaks he once served as Area President in the Philippines. “A temple dedication also reminds us to rededicate ourselves to faithfulness in the work of the Lord,” he said. “As we see you wonderful brothers and sisters and youth here in the Philippines, we are thrilled to realize that you have grown much more in faithfulness in keeping the commandments of God than when Sister (Kristen M.) Oaks and I left the Philippines 20 years ago.”[3]
President Oaks was also accompanied at the dedication by Elder Kevin R. Duncan, General Authority Seventy and executive director of the Temple Department, and his wife, Nancy; and Elder Carlos G. Revillo Jr., a General Authority Seventy and Second Counselor in the Philippines Area Presidency, and his wife, Marites.
Participating in the Urdaneta temple dedication was Elder Augusto A. Lim, the first Filipino stake president and the Church’s first General Authority from the Philippines. He witnessed much of the nation’s growth since two missionaries knocked on his door in 1964. Elder Lim said that what the missionaries began to teach him “was what I believed in the first place. … I just knew this was it; this was something I could understand.”[4]
The Urdaneta Philippines Temple is 32,604 square feet (3,029 square meters) on 15.34 acres (6.2 hectares). It measures 136 feet (41.6 meters) to the top of the angel Moroni statue. The site includes temple patron housing.
President Oaks said Church leaders chose to locate a temple in Urdaneta because of its central location to the 200,000 Latter-day Saints in the temple district — who reside in 34 stakes and 13 districts. The Philippines has the fourth-largest population of Latter-day Saints of any country in the world.
The temple’s flooring features honed honey gold tile from Israel and Palestine; broadloom carpets from the United States in the instruction rooms; cream-colored, carved wool rugs from Thailand in the celestial and sealing rooms; and entry rugs made of New Zealand wood. The light fixtures of satin brass and frosted glass were fabricated in Hong Kong, with the furniture and seating coming from Vietnam. The doors and millwork throughout the temple are made of stained African mahogany. The baptistry includes blue and green mosaic tile from Italy, with the oxen at the base of the font being painted fiberglass.[5]
With an exterior of “golden sand” granite from China, the temple shows an architectural design combining Asian influences with a modern interpretation of local Spanish colonial elements. Other exterior features include rounded corners, motifs based on the sampaguita flower and mango, with the carved stone heads on the windows representative of the decorative ventilation grills on traditional buildings. The sampaguita is the national flower of the Philippines, with the white jasmine species native to Southeast Asia. Deemed culturally and symbolically significant, the flower represents purity, simplicity, humility, and strength.[6]
Landscaping includes lush gardens and concrete-paver pathways, local flowers, large acacia trees and two rows of palm trees that line the main approach from the highway.[7]
Picture Gallery of the Urdaneta Philippines Temple
Exterior of the Urdaneta Philippines Temple
Spire of the Urdaneta Philippines Temple
Recommend desk in the Urdaneta Philippines Temple
Urdaneta Philippines Temple chapel
A hallway in the Urdaneta Philippines Temple
Urdaneta Philippines Temple baptistry
Sculpted oxen surround the baptistry of the Urdaneta Phlippines Temple
Urdaneta Philippines Temple instruction room
Urdaneta Philippines Temple bride's room
Waiting area in the Urdaneta Philippines Temple
A sealing room in the Urdaneta Philippines Temple
Detail inside the Urdaneta Philippines Temple
Detail inside the Urdaneta Philippines Temple
Detail inside the Urdaneta Philippines Temple
Urdaneta Philippines Temple celestial room
Exterior of the Urdaneta Philippines Temple
Exterior of the Urdaneta Philippines Temple
- All images copyright The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]
Temples in the Philippines
- Alabang Philippines Temple
- Bacolod Philippines Temple
- Cagayan de Oro Philippines Temple
- Cebu City Philippines Temple
- Davao Philippines Temple
- Iloilo Philippines Temple
- Laoag Philippines Temple
- Manila Philippines Temple
- Naga Philippines Temple
- Santiago Philippines Temple
- Tacloban City Philippines Temple
- Tuguegarao City Philippines Temple
- Urdaneta Philippines Temple
External Links
- Official Urdaneta Philippines Temple page
- Urdaneta Philippines Temple page
- Urdaneta Philippines Temple dedicatory prayer
- What is the Purpose of the Temple
- Church News, "Episode 185: President and Sister Oaks on the blessing of returning to the Philippines and the Urdaneta temple dedication"
- FamilySearch RootsTech, Temple Invitation by Russell M. Nelson
