page_title: ADD Convention Center
section_title: Background
hierarchical_section_title: ADD Convention Center / Background
caption_attribution_description: English: Ang Dating Daan[Ang Dating Daan] Central Office, Apalit, Pampanga[1]
context_page_description: The Ang Dating Daan Convention Center also known as Pasalamatán in Tagalog is an open-type, multi-purpose convention center owned by the Members Church of God International, a Philippine-based Christian religious organization. It is located inside the 58-hectare ADD Central Headquarters along MacArthur Highway in Brgy. Sampaloc, Apalit, Pampanga, Philippines. MCGI is also known in the Philippines as Ang Dating Daan or "ADD", the title of its flagship radio and television program.
context_section_description: In the mid 1990s, the church left its old headquarters (also known as "Old Central") in Brgy. San Vicente, a flood-prone area in Apalit and relocated to a bigger space. A ₱50 million loan was obtained by the church to acquire and develop a 10-hectare lot in Brgy. Sampaloc in Apalit into a mixed-use community. The ADD Central Headquarters houses the ADD Convention Center, 5,000-capacity chapel, baptistry, MCGI Central Administration Office, dormitories for church officers and volunteers, orphanages, infirmary, transient home, houses for the ministers and workers and school buildings for MCGI's tertiary institution, the La Verdad Christian College.
caption: Façade of the gate of the ADD Convention Center in 2012.
exif: {"Image ImageDescription": "", "Image Make": "NIKON", "Image Model": "COOLPIX AW100", "Image Orientation": "Horizontal (normal)", "Image XResolution": "300", "Image YResolution": "300", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Image Software": "COOLPIX AW100V1.0", "Image DateTime": "2012:10:22 14:50:18", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Co-sited", "Image ExifOffset": "280", "GPS GPSVersionID": "[2, 3, 0, 0]", "GPS GPSLatitudeRef": "", "GPS GPSLatitude": "[0/0, 0/0, 0/0]", "GPS GPSLongitudeRef": "", "GPS GPSLongitude": "[0/0, 0/0, 0/0]", "GPS GPSAltitudeRef": "0", "GPS GPSAltitude": "0/0", "GPS GPSTimeStamp": "[0/0, 0/0, 0/0]", "GPS GPSSatellites": "", "GPS GPSImgDirectionRef": "M", "GPS GPSImgDirection": "403/4", "GPS GPSMapDatum": "", "GPS GPSDate": "", "Image GPSInfo": "942", "Thumbnail Compression": "JPEG (old-style)", "Thumbnail XResolution": "300", "Thumbnail YResolution": "300", "Thumbnail ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormat": "12788", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormatLength": "5140", "EXIF ExposureTime": "1/1250", "EXIF FNumber": "39/10", "EXIF ExposureProgram": "Program Normal", "EXIF ISOSpeedRatings": "125", "EXIF SensitivityType": "Standard Output Sensitivity", "EXIF ExifVersion": "0230", "EXIF DateTimeOriginal": "2012:10:22 14:50:18", "EXIF DateTimeDigitized": "2012:10:22 14:50:18", "EXIF ComponentsConfiguration": "YCbCr", "EXIF CompressedBitsPerPixel": "4", "EXIF ExposureBiasValue": "0", "EXIF MaxApertureValue": "39/10", "EXIF MeteringMode": "Pattern", "EXIF LightSource": "Unknown", "EXIF Flash": "Flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode", "EXIF FocalLength": "5", "EXIF FlashPixVersion": "0100", "EXIF ColorSpace": "sRGB", "EXIF ExifImageWidth": "4608", "EXIF ExifImageLength": "3456", "Interoperability InteroperabilityIndex": "R98", "Interoperability InteroperabilityVersion": "[48, 49, 48, 48]", "EXIF InteroperabilityOffset": "1308", "EXIF FileSource": "Digital Camera", "EXIF SceneType": "Directly Photographed", "EXIF CustomRendered": "Normal", "EXIF ExposureMode": "Auto Exposure", "EXIF WhiteBalance": "Auto", "EXIF DigitalZoomRatio": "0", "EXIF FocalLengthIn35mmFilm": "28", "EXIF SceneCaptureType": "Landscape", "EXIF GainControl": "High gain down", "EXIF Contrast": "Normal", "EXIF Saturation": "Normal", "EXIF Sharpness": "Normal", "EXIF SubjectDistanceRange": "3"}