QUIAPO
CHURCH
(The home of The Black Nazarene)
1586- Naging bayang maliit na may
Gobernadorcillo sa kautusan ni Santiago de Vera, ang simbahang itinayo ng mga
Franciscano ay pinamunuan ni P. Antonio de Nombella. Dito itinatag ng mesobispo
Ignacio de Santibañez o.f.m. ang kanyang tanggapan. (Curia)
1603- Nasunog ang simbahan dahil sa
himagsikan ng mga intsik.
1635- Ang parokya ay inilipat ni
Sebastian Hurtado de Corcuera sa mga Heswita ngunit ibinalik ng hari ng España
sa mga paring diocesano noong 1639.
1645- Gumuho ang simbahan dahil sa
malakas na lindol.
1728- Ang Arsobispo ng Maynila
Bermudez G. de Castro ay tumanggap ng palio mula sa Obispo ng Cagayan.
1767- Dinala rito ang imahe ng
Nazareno sa pamumuno ng mga paring recoleto sa panahon ng arsobispo Basilio Sancho.
1791- Nasunog muli ang simbahan.
1863- Muling nasira ang simbahan
dahil sa malakas na lindol.
1864- Ipinatayo ang simbahan ni P.
Eusebio de Leon na tinapos ni P. Manuel Roxas.
1929- Nasunog ang simbahan at
ipinagawa ni P. Magdaleno Castillo kay arkitekto Juan F. Nakpil (1933)
1975- pinatay ang Obispo Hernando
Antiporda at P. Raymundo Costales.
1989- Ang limang kampana na handog
ng mga taga Quiapo at ng mga deboto ng Nazareno sa pamumuno ng ating butihing
rector, Mons. Jose C. Abriol p.a. ay gawa ng Pefit at Fritsen, Holanda,
binasbasan ng kagalang-galang Jaime Cardinal L. Sin, p.d. at ikinabit ni Engr.
Jose Emmanuel A. Carpio at Hans Van Duynhoven
1988- Naging basilica menor ng
Nazareno sa kahilingan ng arsobispo ng Maynila Jaime Cardinal L. Sin at Nuncio
Apostolico, Mons. Bruno Torpiglian, D.D unang Pilipinong santo (Feb. 1, 1988)
1984- Pinabago ng Mons. Abrial ang
simbahan kina Ark. Jose M. Zaragoza at Engr. Ed D. Santiago, na binasbasan ng
kagalang-galang na Jaime Cardinal L. Sin noong Sept. 28, 1987.
1981- Ipinatayo ng Mons. Jose Abriol
ang bagong gusali ng Quiapo Parochial School sa R. Hidalgo na pinangasiwaan ng
mga Sisters of St. Paul de Chartres.
PLAZA MIRANDA
(The Center Of FORTUNE TELLING, CHARMS and AMULETS)
(The Center Of FORTUNE TELLING, CHARMS and AMULETS)
Plaza Miranda is a public square bounded by Quezon Boulevard, Hidalgo Street and Evangelista Street in Quiapo, Manila. It is the plaza which fronts the Minor Basilica of the Black Nazarene (Quiapo Church), one of the main churches
of the City of Manila, and is considered as the center of Quiapo as a whole.
Inaugurated in its current form by Mayor Arsenio Lacson in 1961, it is named after José
Sandino y Miranda, who served as the Philippines' Secretary of the
Treasury between 1833 and 1854.
Regarded as the center of Philippine political
discourse prior to the imposition
of martial law in 1972, the plaza
was the site of the 1971 Plaza Miranda bombing, where two grenades were launched at a
political rally of the Liberal
Party, killing nine people.
It underwent a ₱49 million renovation in 2000 after decades of neglect as a result
of Manila's urban decay in the 1970s and 1980s, giving it a more
modern design despite protests from various historical groups and cultural
experts, with a monument erected to commemorate bombing victims and
additional architectural elements installed.
Currently, Plaza Miranda serves as a freedom park, where assemblies and protests may be held without needing a
permit from local authorities, and with thousands of people crossing through it
every day, it is considered to be Manila's version of Times Square.
Despite fronting the Quiapo Church, Plaza Miranda
and the streets surrounding it is known as a center for fortune-telling and the sale of lucky charms and amulets.
Most fortune tellers who practice around
Plaza Miranda claim that they are able to draw their ability to tell fortunes
from their devotion to the Black Nazarene (the patron of the Quiapo Church) despite Catholic
Church doctrine deploring
the practice.
But
it is only the people who can say whether the fortune tellers and the charms
and amulets are true and really can give whatever they are asking to have.
Bahay Nakpil-Bautista
The Nakpil-Bautista
House (Tagalog, Bahay Nakpil-Bautista) is one of the old
houses found in the area of Quiapo,
Manila. It was built in 1914 by Arcadio Arellano. The two-house originally
seats on two lots, having a total area of 500 square meters. The National Historical Commission of the Philippines declared the house as a cultural
property on August 25, 2011. Today, the house is a museum showcasing items
of the Katipunan, paintings, among others.
Arcadio Arellano
built the house for Dr. Ariston Bautista and his wife, Perona Nakpil, which
survives on 432 Barbosa Street (now A. Bautista Street), Quiapo, two blocks
away from the Enriquez house. Built in 1914, the house is typical of its
period: in the lower storey, thin, narrow, brick walls pressed together by
wooden studs; upstairs, rooms aired by large calados and shaded by sufficient
media aguas.
The lot measures 500 square meters and
had 2 storeys, with wood and stone as primary construction materials. The
ground floor consists of the '‘zaguan’’ (parking area for horse-drawn
carriage), ‘’cuarto’’ (bedroom), ‘’sala’’ (living room), patio, and the
‘’plateria’’ (area for designing jewelry). The upper floor contains the ‘’ante
sala’’ (anteroom), ‘’sala’’, patio, ‘’comedor’’ (dining room), ‘’azotea’’,
‘’cuarto’’, ‘’oficina’’, and ‘’cocina’’ (kitchen). The second floor was built
with wood to resist earthquakes.
The house had two entrances, a street
door and a large iron gate, typical of many Manila houses of the period. The
large iron gate leads to the estero behind. The lower story is in the
wood-and-stone style post-1880. Rodrigo Perez III (also known as Dom Bernardo,
OSB), architect and scholar, says that, in many Filipino houses whether in the
Cordillera or in the lowland countryside, “space is surrounded by
space.” In a lecture at Nakpil-Bautista house in 1999, he showed how
Arellano’s creation manifests this idea. Going up the main stairway the visitor
arrives at hall, the caida, with doors on all four sides leading to the
surrounding rooms, the dining room, the living room, and two suites of
bedrooms. Two sets of doors slide Japanese-style to open, vistas extending from
street to estero.
It does not have ornate decorative
details. Its inspiration is the Vienna Secession, a style not well known in the
Philippines during this time. Viennese artists of the 1890s reacted to the
fashionable revival of historic styles by creating a style with a contemporary
character. The Secession was thus the same as art nouveau. After Dr. Ariston
Bautista and his wife, Petrona Nakpil the painter, received a gift of Secession
furniture, they designed their entire house around the furniture motifs. Window
grilles overlooking the estero have vertical floral stems with flowers sized to
small squares, while grilles facing the street display abstract interpretation
of lyres. The upper exterior wall is simply decorated with a band of square
insets. On the tracery of the interior ransom walls are abstract
interpretations of the kiyapo plant.
The upper storey has a museum honouring
both the Nakpils and two ancestors who played a role in the Katipunan, Julio
Nakpil and his wife Gregoria de Jesus. After the house was finished, Dr.
Bautista designed new furniture with the same motifs and had them executed by
his Pampango carpenter in residence. The original furniture was divided
among the heirs in the 1970s. Some of the present pieces were commissioned to
suit the museum’s purposes.
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SAN SEBASTIAN CHURCH
The Basílica Menor de San Sebastián,
better known as San Sebastian
Church, is a Roman Catholic minor basilica in Manila, Philippines and the seat of the Parish of San
Sebastian.
Completed in 1891, San
Sebastian Church is noted for its architectural
features. an example of the revival of Gothic architecture in the Philippines, it is the only all-steel temple in the
Philippines, and as the only
prefabricated steel church in the world. In
2006, San Sebastian Church was included in the Tentative List for
possible designation as a World Heritage Site. It was designated as a
National Historical Landmark by the Philippine government in 1973.
San Sebastian Church is under
the care of The Order of the Augustinian Recollects, who
also operate a college adjacent
to the basilica. It is located at Plaza del Carmen, at the eastern end of Recto
Avenue, in Quiapo, Manila.
In 1621, Bernardino Castillo, a
generous patron and a devotee of the 3rd-century Roman martyr Saint
Sebastian, donated the land upon which the church stands. The original
structure, made of wood, burned in 1651 during a Chinese uprising.
Succeeding structures, which were built of brick, were destroyed by fire and
earthquakes in 1859, 1863, and 1880.
In the 1880s, Esteban Martínez,
the parish priest of the ruined church, approached the Spanish architect Genaro
Palacios, with a plan to build a fire and earthquake-resistant structure made
entirely of steel. Palacios
completed a design that fused Earthquake Baroque with
the Neo-Gothicstyle. His final design was said to have been
inspired by the famed Gothic Burgos
Cathedral in Burgos, Spain.
The prefabricated steel
sections that would compose the church were manufactured in Binche, Belgium. according to the historian Ambeth Ocampo, the knockdown steel parts were
ordered from the Societe
anonyme des Enterprises de Travaux Publiques in Brussels. In all, 52 tonnes (51 long tons; 57
short tons) of prefabricated steel sections were transported in eight separate
shipments from Belgium to the Philippines, the first shipment
arriving in 1888. Belgian
engineers supervised the assembly of the church, the first column of which was
erected on September 11, 1890. The
walls were filled with mixed sand, gravel, and cement. The stained
glass windows
were imported from the Heinrich Oidtmann Company, a German stained glass firm,
while local artisans assisted in applying the finishing touches.
The church was raised to the
status of a minor
basilica by Pope
Leo XIII on June
24, 1890. Upon its completion the
following year, on August 16, 1891, the Basílica Menor de San Sebastián was
consecrated by Bernardino Nozaleda y Villa OP, the 25th Archbishop of Manila.
According to Jesús Pastor
Paloma, an Agustinian Recollect priest, the structure was also supposed to have
a prefabricated retablo (reredos) altar, which was lost at sea when the
ship carrying it from Belgium capsized in a storm; a wooden altar was made
locally in its stead. Paloma also noted that the bottom part of the church was
designed to resemble a ship's hull, sothat it would sway during an earthquake.
The faux finished interior of the church incorporates groined
vaults in the Gothic architecture style
permitting very ample illumination from lateral windows. The steel columns, walls
and ceiling were painted by Lorenzo Rocha, Isabelo
Tampingco and Félix Martínez to
give the appearance of marble and jasper. Trompe l'oeil paintings of saints and martyrs by
Rocha were used to decorate the interiors of the church. True to the Gothic revival spirit of
the church are its confessionals, pulpit, altars and five retablos designed
by Lorenzo Guerrero and Rocha.
The sculptor Eusebio Garcia carved the statues of holy men and women. Six holy water fonts were constructed
for the church, each crafted from marble obtained from Romblon.
Above the main altar is an
image of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, given
to the church by Carmelite
sisters from Mexico
City in
1617. The image withstood all the
earthquakes and fires which had destroyed previous incarnations of San
Sebastian Church, but its ivory head was stolen in 1975.
San Sebastian Church was a
declared National Historical Landmark by President Ferdinand
Marcos through
Presidential Decree No. 260 in 1973. State
funding was accorded to the church through the National Historical Institute which undertook restoration in 1982. The
Recollect community has likewise expended funds for the church's maintenance
and restoration.
On May 16, 2006, San Sebastian
Church was included in the Tentative List for
possible designation as a World Heritage Site, on account of its
architectural and historical heritage.
The church was declared a National
Cultural Treasure by the National Museum of the
Philippines on on
August 15, 2011 and unveiling of the marker on January 20, 2012.
In recent years, San
Sebastian Church has encountered threats to its structural integrity. The steel
structure has been beset by rust and corrosion due to sea breezes from nearby Manila Bay. In 1998, it
was placed on the biennial watchlist of the 100 Most
Endangered Sites by the World
Monuments Fund, though it
was not retained in the subsequent watchlists.
Masjid Al-Dahab
(The Golden Mosque)
Masjid al-Dahab (or The
Golden Mosque; Filipino: Moskeng
Ginto) is situated in the predominantly Muslim section of the Quiapo district
in Manila, Philippines, and is considered the largest mosque in Metro Manila.
The Golden Mosque acquired its name for
its gold-painted dome as well as for its location in Globo de Oro Street. Under
the supervision of former Philippine First Lady Imelda Marcos, construction began on August 4,
1976 for the visit of Libya's
President Muammar al-Gaddafi,
although his visit was cancelled. It now serves many in Manila's Muslim
community, and is especially full during Jumuah prayers
on a Friday. The mosque can accommodate up to 10,000 worshippers.
The mosque incorporates a mixture of
foreign and local influences. Its dome and erstwhile minaret are patterned
after Middle Eastern structures whereas its geometric designs borrow much from
the colors and variations of ethnic Maranao, Maguindanao, and Tausug art. The
curved lines are based on the serpent motifs in Maranao art. The mosque also exhibits stained glass
panels by artist Antonio Dumlao.
According to the mosque administrators,
the minaret was torn down due to problems in structural integrity at the time
of former Mayor Lito Atienza. There are already plans to
rebuild the minaret as donations from all over the world are pouring in to
reach the target of 12 million Philippine Pesos.
Ocampo Pagoda Mansion
The Ocampo
Pagoda Mansion is a mansion which resembles a pagoda configuration in Quiapo, Manila, Philippines. It was commissioned by the Jose
Mariano Ocampo and was constructed from 1936-1941 on the eve of Japanese invasion of the Philippines.
The three-storey structure
with a seven-storey tower at the northwestern corner was his vision of a
Japanese castle which was located behind his mansion across the estero. The
Japanese-themed structure was inspired by his admiration of Japan for proving
that an Asian country could modernize and equal to developments and progress in
the West. He was aided by two Filipino engineers and two Japanese overseers. It
was timely that the Japanese-inspired structure was during the colonization of
the Japanese soldiers. Because of the high-grade reinforced concrete that was
used in the building, it became the shelter for the neighbors during air
battles between Japanese and American planes in World War II.
Though Japanese-inspired, the
Pagoda is a combination of styles. The base of the four-sided tower is
decorated on two sides with juxtaposed Japanese dormer gables with ornate
bargeboards. The reinforced concrete gables do not carry any ridge but acts as
an ornament to the tower's base. On top of the interwoven gables is the upper
part of the tower which resembles medieval Western. It is crowned by
battlements with defensive, teeth-like crenellations. Machicolations are
located beneath the battlements. There are cantilevered turrets at the corners
of the tower. The pyramidal red-tiled roofs including the turret crowns outline
the structure in the skyline.
According
to Victorino Manalo, a museum expert and director of the Metropolitan
Museum of Manila, there is an elaborate world of symbols present in
the structure. The most important of these symbols is Ocampo's personal emblem,
the owl which is carved under the main gable of the lower tower.
CONCLUSION
This journey has taught us a lot of things. The fact that the Philippines has a lot of things that we should be proud of, the ancestral structures, the beliefs, and most of all the religion.
That we are all blessed to have a strong faith in God, even though we are different in terms of religion but the faith remains and only if we will show respect to each other, despite of the differences, we will have the infinite peace and the happiness in our country. Let us show love and respect to each other and let us be proud of the things that our ancestors built and gave to us.... thank you for subscribing in our blog :)
