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

Location: Cavinti, Laguna

Category: Buildings/Structures

Type: House of Worship

Status: Level II: Historical marker

Date of marker unveiling: 1938

Installed by: Historical Research and Markers Committee

Marker date:

CHURCH OF CAVINTI

THE ECCLESIASTICAL ADMINISTRATION OF CAVINTI BELONGED TO LUMBANG UNTIL 1619. THE FIRST STONE CHURCH AND CONVENT WERE BUILT ABOUT 1621, BUT BOTH WERE SERIOUSLY DAMAGED DURING THE CHINESE UPRISING OF 1939. THE PRESENT CHURCH WAS PARTIALLY, AND THE CONVENT TOTALLY, DESTROYED BY THE EARTHQUAKES OF 1824; BOTH WERE REBUILT BEFORE 1851. THE TOWER COLLAPSED DURING THE EARTHQUAKES OF 1880, AND THE WALLS WERE BADLY CRACKED DURING THE EARTHQUAKES OF 1880 AND 1937.

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 Cavinti

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