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

Location: Calapan, Oriental Mindoro

Category: Buildings/Structures

Type: House of Worship

Status: Level II - Historical marker

Date of marker unveiling: 1952

Installed by: Philippines Historical Committee (PHC)

Marker text:

CHURCH OF CALAPAN

FOUNDED 1679 BY FR. DIEGO DE LA MADRE DE DIOS, AGUSTINIAN RECOLLECT. FORTIFIED WITH STONE WALL; TWO WATCHTOWERS AND TWENTY CANONS. ATTACKED BY MOROS, 23 OCTOBER 1754, WHO CAPTURED ANDRES DE JESUS Y MARIA AND MANY PEOPLE TAKING REFUGE THEREIN. BURNT, AUGUST, 1881. RECONSTRUCTED 1887. OCCUPIED BY THE REVOLUTIONISTS, 1898; BY THE AMERICANS, 1945; TURNED OVER TO THE FILIPINOS, 1945.

Legend

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 Calapan

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