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

Location: Baao, Camarines Sur (Region V)

Category: Buildings/Structures
Type: House of Worship
Status: Level II: Historical marker
Marker date: 1939

Installed by: Philippines Historical Committee (PHC)

Marker text:

CHURCH OF BAAO

THIS CHURCH BUILT IN 1684 AT THE JUNCTION OF LANGDAY AND BAHAY RIVERS, WAS RUINED BY A TYPHOON IN 1706. CONSTRUCTED IN 1720, THE SECOND CHURCH LASTED UNTIL 1731, WHEN THE TOWN, WHICH WAS TRANSFERRED TO ITS PRESENT SITE, ERECTED ANOTHER CHURCH. THIS WAS DAMAGED BY THE EARTHQUAKE OF 1811 BUT WAS REPAIRED IN 1850. ITS BELFRY WAS REBUILT IN 1848.

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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 Baao

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