National Registry of Historic Sites and Structures in the Philippines: Church of Legaspi

NHCP Photo Collection, 2009

Location: Legazpi City, Albay (Region V)

Category: Buildings/Structures

Type: House of worship

Status: Level II - Historical marker

Marker date: 1940

Installed by: Philippines Historical Committee (PHC)

Marker text:

CHURCH OF LEGASPI

FROM 1587 TO 1616 THE SPIRITUAL ADMINISTRATION OF THIS TOWN WAS UNDER CAGSAUA. THE CHURCH TOGETHER WITH SEVERAL HOSUES, WAS BURNED IN 1754. THE ERUPTION OF MAYON VOLCANO, FEBRUARY 1, 1814, DESTROYED THE NEW CHURCH AND HALF OF TEH TOWN. IN 1856 THE OLD NAME PUEBLO VIEJO WAS OFFICIALY CHANGED TO LEGASPI. THE PRESENT CHURCH WAS BUILT IN 1834, MAINLY THROUGH THE GENEROSITY OF PEDRO ROMERO.

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LEVEL I - Sites and Structures declared as National Shrine, National Historical Landmark, National Historical Site, and National Monument (Entries with asterisks)

LEVEL II - Sites and Structures declared as Heritage Zones/Historic Centers, Heritage Houses and bearing Historical Markers

DELISTED - Declared and/or marked historic sites and structures that were removed from the national registry

LIFTED - Sites and structures 50 years old and above removed of its presumption as Important Cultural Property (R.A. 10066)

Church of Legaspi

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