Site preparations continue at the property where the Naga Philippines Temple will be constructed. A new construction barrier has been installed, the site has been cleared of brush and debris, and structural fill is being added and compacted across the property. Once these preparations are complete, a date for the groundbreaking ceremony will be announced. Plans for the temple were announced in October 2022.

Temperatures are beginning to rise in Alaska’s largest city where work has commenced on the entrance hardscape for the new Anchorage Alaska Temple. A raised crosswalk will connect the temple and future meetinghouse, intersected by a landscaped median that will separate lanes of on-site traffic. Construction of the temple began in the early months of 2024 and is expected to continue into 2027.

The structural walls for the basement and baptismal font of the Tampa Florida Temple are now in place, and crews have begun installing concrete footings for the temple’s main floor. Underground utility work has been completed, and shipments of structural steel are arriving on site in preparation for heavy framing. At the corner of the property, walls have been erected for the ancillary building that will house a distribution center.

Excavation for the foundation of the Kumasi Ghana Temple began earlier this year following the groundbreaking ceremony held in October. The temple is the second to be constructed in Ghana and will serve members in the nation’s second-largest city. Ghana’s first temple, the Accra Ghana Temple, was dedicated in 2004 in the capital and largest city of Accra. Situated in a lush rainforest region, Kumasi is known as "The Garden City."