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

NHCP Photo Collection, 2017

Location: Nagcarlan Church, Nagcarlan, Laguna
Category: Buildings/Structures
Type: House of Worship

Status: Level II - Historical marker
Marker date: 1937

Installed by: Historical Research and Markers Committee

Marker text:

CHURCH OF NAGCARLANG

THE FIRST CHURCH WHICH WAS OF LIGHT MATERIALS WAS BUILT BY REV TOMAS DE MIRANDA, O.E.M., WHO WAS ASSIGNED TO THIS TOWN IN 1583 AS RESIDENT PRIEST. THE SECOND CHURCH OF BRICK AND STONE WAS BUILT IN 1752. BUT WAS PARTLY DESTROYED BY FIRE IN 1781. A CHOIRLOFT WAS ADDED TO THE RECONSTRUCTED CHURCH IN 1845 BY REV. VICENTE VELLOC WHO BUILT THE NAGCARLANG CEMETERY AND ITS UNDERGROUND CRYPT. REV TOMAS DE MIRANDA WAS PIONEER IN THE SUCCESSFUL CULTIVATION OF WHEAT IN THE UPLANDS OF NAGCARLANG.

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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 Nagcarlang

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