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

NHCP Photo Collection, 2006

Location: Sta. Cruz, Manila (Region NCR)

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 STA. CRUZ

THE CHURCH WAS BUILT AND ADMINISTERED BY THE JESUITS UP TO 1768. ADIOINING WAS TI-IE JESUIT COLLEGE OF SAN ILDEFONSO, FOUNDED BY GOVERNOR ALFONSO FAJARDO DE LA TENZA ON IANUARY 9, 1724. THE TITULAR PATRONESS OF THE CHURCH IS NUESTRA SENORA DEL PILAR, WHOSE STATUE WAS BROUGHT FROM SPAIN PRIOR TO 1768. THE CONFRATERNITY OF NUESTRA SENORA DEL PILAR WAS CANONICALLY ERECTED IN THIS CHURCH IN 1743. ON TI·IE SURROUNDING PLAZA THE BRITISH RETURNED THE CITY OF MANILA TO SIMON DE ANDA Y SALAZAR IN 1764.

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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 Santa Cruz

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