Window mode follows your eyes with your camera, in this browser only: no picture or position leaves your device.
Iglesia de San Miguel, Manila, Filipinas, 2023-08-27, DD 29-31 HDR
Taken on 27 August 2023, 12:51:02 (according to Exif data)
- Classification
- Photograph
- Museum
- Wikimedia Commons
- Credit line
- Self-photographed
- Rights
- CC BY-SA 4.0, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
San Miguel Church, formally The Royal Parish and National Shrine of Saint Michael and the Archangels, Manila, Philippines. The shrine is located within the Malacañang Palace complex, the official residence of the President of the Republic of the Philippines. Presidents that have heard Mass at the shrine include Carlos P. García, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, and Fidel V. Ramos (who was Protestant). The Church was first built in stone in 1603 by the Jesuits in Paco. In 1611, the Jesuits and Filipino Catholics accommodated the Japanese Christians who were persecuted by the Tokugawa Shogunate. It was Blessed Dom Justo Takayama (高山右近), a daimyō or feudal lord, who led a group of approximately 300 Japanese Christians to the Philippines in 1614. The church was damaged in the 1645 Luzon earthquake, and during the British occupation of Manila that was part of the Seven Years' War. The church was rebuilt in 1913. The church served as the pro-cathedral of the Archdiocese of Manila while Manila Cathedral was being rebuilt from 1946 to 1958 following the city's destruction in World War II. It was elevated to the rank of a national shrine in 1986.
