Manila MTC (Philippines): where it is and what to expect

Address and contact

Here’s what the Church’s official Philippines Missionary Training Center page lists:

• Address: 13 Temple Drive, Corner White Plains Avenue, Green Meadows Subdivision, Quezon City 1110, Metro Manila, Philippines
• Phone: +63 2-8683-7207
• Email: [email protected]
• Hours: Monday through Sunday, 6:00 AM to 6:00 PM

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Where it is

The MTC stands across the street from the Manila Philippines Temple and next to the Philippines Area administrative offices (official page). Its address is in Quezon City, Metro Manila, which is why families, and a 2017 Church Newsroom article, call it the Manila MTC (Church Newsroom, 2017). The official name is the Philippines Missionary Training Center.

No official page we found names an airport or a transfer plan. Missionary travel is booked through the Church, and our travel portal guide explains how itineraries reach you.

Who trains here

Per Church Newsroom, Manila trains missionaries for all missions in the Philippines and Asia areas. Its language list reads Cambodian, Cebuano, English, English as a second language, Hiligaynon, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Mongolian, Tagalog, Urdu and Vietnamese, and Newsroom notes that every language except Tagalog is for native speakers only (Church Newsroom).

A 2021 article from the Church’s Philippines Newsroom names missionaries coming from Hong Kong, Cambodia, Indonesia, India, Singapore, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam, Micronesia-Guam and Mongolia (Philippines Newsroom, 2021). Both lists are a few years old, and the Church now runs a separate Thailand MTC too (Church Newsroom, September 11, 2026), so your call letter is the final word. If your call says Provo, see Provo MTC drop-off. Every Philippine mission is on our Philippines page.

How long missionaries stay

When the 2017 expansion opened, Newsroom said training at the Philippines MTC lasted from three weeks to three months, depending on language needs (Church Newsroom, 2017). Newsroom’s current overview of all MTCs gives three to nine weeks, and up to three weeks for missionaries not learning a language (Newsroom MTC overview). Go by the dates in your own call packet.

How it grew

• 1983: the MTC was established (official page). The Philippines Newsroom says it began in a rented house in Greenhills, Manila, and grew into two rented houses two years later (Philippines Newsroom, 2021).
• 1992: the Church built its first training center in the country, across from the Manila Philippines Temple, with room for 80 missionaries (Philippines Newsroom, 2021).
• May 2012: a new residence hall and training center were added and dedicated by President Russell M. Nelson, then of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles (Church Newsroom, 2017). The official page puts capacity after that expansion at 160.
• 2017: two more buildings, one for training and one for residence halls, brought the campus to five buildings. Newsroom said capacity doubled to 280, and the public could tour the new buildings in an open house that June (Church Newsroom, 2017).

Church sources round these figures differently (the 2021 article gives 144 after 2011 and 250 after 2017), so we use the official page’s 280 as today’s capacity. Newsroom also said the Missionary Department planned these additions in the original design, which follows the same principles as the Provo MTC (Church Newsroom, 2017).

What’s on the campus

The official page lists residence rooms, classrooms, a kitchen, a cafeteria, laundry facilities, a small MTC store and an exercise building. Outside there’s a playing field and an outdoor volleyball court, and a large indoor facility has stationary exercise equipment plus courts for basketball and volleyball. Up to 280 missionaries can train there at a time (official page).

Who leads it

Church Newsroom announced on September 11, 2026 that Abenir V. Pajaro and Valerie Sibala Antenorcruz Pajaro will lead the Philippines MTC from January 2027, succeeding President Manuel M. Agustin and Sister Bernadette Mari B. Agustin. The Pajaros previously presided over the Philippines Cebu Mission and belong to the Las Piñas Philippines Stake. Brother Pajaro was born in Vigan, Ilocos Sur, and Sister Pajaro in Cebu City (Church Newsroom, September 11, 2026).

Arrival, visits and mail

The official page lists daily hours of 6:00 AM to 6:00 PM, but it doesn’t say whether families may drop off, visit or tour, and we found no official mailing format for missionaries in training here. The Philippines MTC website didn’t respond when we checked on November 3, 2026. Wait for your missionary’s instructions and the call packet rather than borrowing another MTC’s rules.

Start with email, and ask your missionary before sending a package. See our letters and packages guide and can we visit our missionary? for the general picture.