Church of Siniloan

Location: Siniloan, Laguna

Category: Buildings/Structures

Type: House of worship

Status: Level II - Historical marker

Marker date: 1939

Installed by: Historical Research and Markers Committee

Marker text:

CHURCH OF SINILOAN

FOUNDED BY THE REV. JUAN DE PLASENCIA AND THE REV. DIEGO DE OROPESA. THIS TOWN WAS CALLED GUILING-GUILING FROM 1583 TO 1604. IN 1733-1739 THE REV. MELCHOR DE SAN ANTONIO, O.F.M., BUILT THE CHURCH THAT WAS DESTROYED BY THE EARTHQUAKE OF 1880. THE CHURCH THAT FOLLOWED, CONSTRUCTED BETWEEN 1890 AND 1898, WAS DAMAGED BY THE EARTHQUAKE OF AUGUST 20, 1937.