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• Taal Basilica

• Baclaran Church

• Paete Church

• San Sebastian Church

Answer explanation

TAAL BASILICA

- Built on top of a hill

- Arched windows alternate with ionic columns at first level, Corinthian at upper level; projected cornices and mouldings; three pediments

- Interior is cavernous bur drab with stout piers and semi-circular apse; mathematical exactness rather than ornamentation.

• Angat Church

• Tamauini Church

• Taal Church

• Baguio Church

Answer explanation

SANTA MONICA PRISH CHURCH (ANGAT CHURCH)

- Baroque Style: coupled Corinthian and Doric columns divide façade into levels or segments, statues ringed with wreath-like ornaments flank niches, windows with bas-relief "curtains"

- Plain three-storey belltower with balustered top

• Taal Church

• Daraga Church

• Quiapo Church

• Antipolo Church

Answer explanation

Nuestra Señora de la Porteria Parish Church (Daraga Church)

- established by people who fled the eruption of Mt. Mayon

- Franciscan wanted a church with the best features of Romanesque and Gothic, but it was executed by the carvers in Baroque

- façade: a whole tablet without columns and cornices, only symmetrically positioned fenestrations, apertures and niches; whorls, twisted columns, foliage, medallions, statues and reliefs

• Quiapo Church

• Taal Basilica

• Baclaran Church

• Malate Church

Answer explanation

NATIONAL SHRINE OF OUR MOTHER OF PRPETUAL HLP (BACLARAN CHURCH)

- Modern Romanesque; third to be built on the same site

- Designed by Architect Cesar Concio

- Took 6 yrs to build because most of the money came from small donations-the suggestion from the pulpit was 10 Philippine centavos per week-that often ran out requiring construction to stop.

- The foundation stone was laid on Jan. 11, 1953 and on Dec. 1, 1958 the new church was consecrated. The church opened with a mass on Dec. 5, 1958 and has been open 24 hrs. ever since.

- The modern, Romanesque Revival building has a full seating capacity of 2,000 but as many as 11,000 people (including standing) can fit inside during masses.

• Tamauni Church

• Baclaran Church

• Paete Church

• Loboc Church

Answer explanation

SAN MATIAS PARISH CHURCH (TAMAUNI CHURCH)

- ultra-baroque: unique for its extensive use of baked clay both for wall finishes and ornamentation

- ornamental details: serpentine reliefs, spiral curves, flowers, foliage, sunfaces, cherubs and saints

- circular belltower with white limestone finish, decorated with bright red clay rosettes and festoons

• Baguio Church

• Baclayon Church

• Our Lady of Manaoag

• Loboc Church

Answer explanation

BAGUIO CHURCH

- Rising above the city skyline are the pinkish hues of the Baguio Cathedral

- One of religious landmarks which dot the city.

- There is Bell Temple, north of the city the Maryhust Seminary with its brilliant gardens, and Lourdes Grotto with its 252 steps to heaven.

• Basilica del Santo Niño de Cebu

• Taal Basilica

• Daraga Church

• Baclaran Church

Answer explanation

BASILICA DEL SANTO NIÑO DE CEBU

- Basilica Minore is the tile conferred on this church

- National Landmark

- Built by Fray Juan de Albarran about 400 years ago, on the site where a soldier found an image of the Sto. Niño in a settlement that the Spanish soldiers have burned down

- constructed with stones from Panay and Capiz

- façade: blending of Moorish, Romanesque and Neoclassical elements; trefoils on the doorways; two levels divided into three segments and topped by pediment, retablo at the center

- belltower has four-sided balustraded dome

- interior: pierced screen with floral motifs, pineapple decors at the choirloft, corn cobs at the capital

• San Agustin Church

• Taal Basilica

• Quiapo Church

• Paoay Church

Answer explanation

SAN AGUSTIN CHURCH

- High Renaissance

- Characterized by the super positioned columns of the Tuscan order on the first level and the Corinthian columns on the second level

- Iglesi San Pablo de Manila

• San Sebastian Church

• Santo Domingo Church

• Baclaran Church

• Quiapo Church

Answer explanation

QUIAPO CHURCH

- "Basilica Minor de Nuestro Padre Jesus Nazareno"

- Baroque façade with twisted columns on both levels

• Santo Domingo Church

• San Sebastian Church

• San Agustin Church

• Manila Metropolitan Cathedral

Answer explanation

SAN SEBASTIAN CHURCH

- 52 tons of steel were transported to Manila

- "The First All-Iron Church in the World"

- First pre-fabricated structure to be erected in the Philippines