Brief Description: Built in 1999, this is the only church in Roxas Boulevard and one of the newer places of worship in Metro Manila. I believe that both the altars of the Shrine of Jesus and St. James the Great in Ayala, Alabang were done by the same person. It is made of wood and [...]
Nuestra Senora de Gracia Parish
May 23, 2007 By 9 Comments
Constructed in 1599 by the Augustinian friars, the oldest religious order in the Philippines, this baroque church was originally called Nuestra Senora de Gracia (Our Lady of Grace), in honor of a miraculous image of the Virgin Mary housed inside. The architecture is marked by four Doric columns and leaf carvings above the main entrence. [...]
San Sebastian Church
May 21, 2007 By 37 Comments
The Church of San Sebastian was raised into the status of a minor basilica by Pope Leo XIII on June 24, 1890. The following year, on August 15, 1891, the all-steel church of San Sebastian was inaugurated and blessed. The interior of the church displays groined vaults just like what a Gothic architecture should be, [...]
Manila Cathedral
May 21, 2007 By 12 Comments
The Manila Cathedral, also known as the minor basilica of the Immaculate Conception, was the seat of the Archbishop of Manila during the Spanish colonial period in the Philippines, and still remains the ecclesisastical seat of the Archdiocese of Manila. The See of Manila, with jurisdiction over all the Philippine Islands and suffragan to the [...]
San Agustin Church
May 18, 2007 By 93 Comments
One of the immensely popular wedding churches in Manila, San Agustin Church is also one of the oldest churches in the Philippines. Built built between 1587 and 1606, it is the only building left intact after the destruction of Intramuros during the Battle of Manila (1945). The present structure is actually the third to stand [...]
