Cebu Churches

Historical Churches in Cebu

    Before Cebu became an economically improved city in the Philippines, there lies a beautiful and historical events: during and after the colonization of the Spaniards that still influenced the heart and mind of the people that lives in this place.

• Basilca del Sto. Niño

    It is the oldest Roman Catholic churchestablished in the country, purportedly built on the spot where the image of the Santo Niño de Cebú, a statue depicting the Holy Child Jesus was found in 1565 by Spanish explorers led by Miguel Lopez de Legazpi. The image is the same statue given byFerdinand Magellan to the wife of Rajah Humabon as a gift over forty years before after Humabon's baptism to Christianity on April 14, 1521. It was found by a soldier preserved in a burnt wooden box after Legazpi razed the village of hostile natives. The present building, which was completed from 1739-1740, has been the sanctuary of the oldest religious image in the country ever since. 

• Boljoon Church

        The church of San Miguel el Arcangel in Argao was built in 1783 during the time of Father Francisco Espina who was the parish priest from 1782 to 1798. It bears a striking resemblance with the San Guillermo de Aquitania Church in Dalaguete Sporting influences of baroque and rococo, the church features a three-level facade that is dividedinto segments ny pilasters. at the lower level are paired pilasters each with a carved-relief of a cherub clinging to an ornamental plants.

• Argao Church

 

        The church of San Miguel el Arcángel in Argao was built in 1783 during the time of Father Francisco Espina who was the parish priest from 1782 to 1798. It bears a striking resemblance with the San Guillermo de Aquitania Church in Dalaguete Sporting influences of baroque and rococo, the church features a three-level facade that is divided into segments by pilasters. At the lower level are paired pilasters each with a carved-relief of a cherub clinging to an ornamental plants.

• Danao Church

       The Danao City Church, or more officially known as Santo Tomas de Villanueva Parish Church, was built in 1755. The church suffered partial destruction during the Second World War. Partial reconstructions were made to the church but the church’s edifice still stood precariously. The dome of the church has replica of a mitre, which symbolizes the parish’s patron saint. Santo Tomas de Villanueva is an Augustinian friar and the archbishop of the Archdiocese of Valencia, Spain from 1544 to 1555.