The Seven Churches of Intramuros. What Happened to Them? A Discovery Tour.
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- Опубліковано 19 чер 2024
- Do you know that there were seven grand churches inside the walls of Intramuros?
They were built during the 350-years of Spanish colonial period, and were the base for spreading the Catholic religion all over the Philippines.
The seven churches: Manila Cathedral, San Agustin, San Ignacio, San Nicolas de Tolentino, Our Lady of Lourdes, San Francisco and Santo Domingo. We were able to get old photos showing how beautiful these churches were.
Unfortunately, 6 of them were badly damaged during the Second World War.
We went on a walking tour of Intramuros to find out what happened to these churches.
#intramuros #7churches #manilacathedral #sanagustinchurch
Almost everything Manila have problems with right now is because of WWII. The transportation issue especially. Because Manila wasn’t rebuilt and restored fully, zoning laws were not as enforced, cheap American Jeeps were turned to Jeepneys (a transportation vehicle only temporarily intended to be used because before that Manila had the more efficient Tranvia railway), more corruption, ect. When a city loses 400 years of infrastructure you lose what made the city great and people over time forget and lose respect to it..
you are correct about transportation. I realized that due to surplus jeeps turned into jeepneys, the Philippines had to switch from RHD to LHD on July 6, 1946. This was big problem because old streets like Escolta, Avenida, Quiapo were designed to operate on RHD. Then came surplus auto parts from Japan that had to be converted to LHD under the mango tree thus compromising safety.
Manila was not restored properly and D Burnham's plan of Manila didn't come to fruition I'm guessing because they opted to relocate the capital and made Quezon City.
why did the usaf have to bomb manila that bad?
The old Intramuros was hauntingly beautiful in it's grandeur. Such magnificent churches that could rival any other churches in Europe. It sad to think about how the Philippines could have been the "Europe of Asia' had not the evils of war intervened.
yes, so sad...
Matagal ko ng pangarap na maibalik ang Intramuros sa dating ganda nito. Since mainly Spanish fortress ito, sana kahit ibalik nila ang itsura ng Intramuros circa 1896 (as last seen by National Hero Jose Rizal). Nakatayo pa ang 7 actually 8 churches, ang UST at Ateneo de Manila kung saan nag aral si Rizal at iba pang buildings. Maganda sana na maging museum ang buong Intramuros na talagang maipagmamalaki natin sa buong mundo.
I totally agree. Sayang.
A so informative video about our history. Salamat!
Salamat
Intramuros is pretty much Europe in Asia. It actually reminds me of Toledo. The walled city has so much potential to help Manila. This citadel can be a unique attraction to all Asians alone wherein a travel to Europe is no longer necessary.
Why the Intramuros Administration has not implemented a mandatory rehabilitation is beyond logic. I am sure it is cheap to just reconstruct the facades of these historical stuctures, JUST THE OUTSIDE, and there is really no need to build anything inside, just keep it open space for entrepreneurs to rent as restaurants, markets, museums, etc. Then from the rent, use the money to revive the interiors. Has anybody even thought about this? Why do the government and administrators think they need to spend so much money recreating the interior as well? Just the facade will do due to budget constraints. Intramuros is so small and we can’t rebuild even just the outside of a building, THE SHELL?
And restore the original names of these streets. Get rid of the electric cables. (Venice is older than Intramuros yet they managed to hide their spaghetti wires.) The golf course which used to be the moat, TURN IT INTO A DIGNIFIED PARK where authentic looking calesas are offered to tourists to see the walls. And those uniforms of those guardia civil, seriously, they look cheap. A simple barong will do or saya for women.
Sa pagka liitliit ng Intramuros hindi maayos-ayos? NAUNAHAN PA NG BGC. Yang Jones Bridge, meron nang mga lumang pictures ng original NI HINDI PA GINAYA, instead naging baduy na hindi mo maintindihan kung nasa movie set ka ng Beauty and the Beast o Disneyland. Tapos sa harap pa nang Jones Bridge nag tayo pa nang higanteng Chinese Arch. At hindi pa na contento, GUMAWA PA NG ARCH BRIDGE NA MODERN.
EWAN
Thank you for your comment. Dami pwede gawin sa Intramuros pero di magawa. Limited budget? Informal settlers? Dami dahilan.
I agree with your comment about the golf course. It should be redeveloped into a park so that the public can enjoy it instead of few golfers who have no concern about it's history and heritage. Also agree that the giant Binondo arch, Jones Bridge, Esplanade and the Binondo Intramuros Bridge are all quite tacky.
Ironically as much as you hate the golf course (me too), it did help prevent squatters from building around Intramuros.
@@bmona7550 the squatters came to Intramuros after the war. and they never left.
Best comment and suggestion I've seen so far! Why haven't they thought of that? Intramuros is so small, yet they haven't been able to restore its original beauty. The IA exists for a reason, but they can't seem to do their job right. I can't believe they let those modern buildings and Bahay na Bato wannabes be built inside the walls. And the names? I'm sure people would disagree with returning the old names in Manila, and I believe it won't be that necessary either. But for historical places, especially Intramuros, why didn't they retain it? The intramuros that we see today looks more like a Disneyland compared to its pre-war beauty. I really hope they do something about this.
Thank you so much for this informative video!!! People will now have idea about this one :>
thank you for watching
Thanks so much for sharing your videos. I worked in Intramuros for 35 years in one of the universities.I used to attend masses during our lunch break.There were many tourists riding in Kalesa.Intramuros is a very nice place and full of memories. Truly a historical place💕
Yes, Intramuros is such a magical place indeed!
Kaka subscribed ko lng po and salamat po sa kaalamang inyong naibahagi Sir Joseph 😊
thanks for subscribing. I'll be featuring more historical videos soon.
Sayang talaga na wala na ang mga ito, ganda talaga ng pagkagawa, parang nasa europa ka. Mabuti nalang may isa na nakaligtas sa giyera.
oo nga sayang
Keep it up Joseph.
Thanks, will do!
Thank you sir for doing a vlog about this. Much appreciated. 👍😊❤️🇵🇭
My pleasure!
Thank you so much for this vlog. I didnt know that Intramuros has 7 churches. I only know 2. I grew up with the modern Intramuros already and now i know i did missed a lot of my history...again thank you please vlog more..❤❤❤
thank you for watching
So very historical place ... hopefully yung mga cables na hindi naman ginagamit na ay maAlis to avoid spaghetti looks of wires sour to our eyes. God bless you po!
thank you
I studied in Letran back in my college days, I am fascinated by Intramuros and its hidden gems. I didn't know that San Nicolas Church was huge back then, I bet much bigger than the Manila Cathedral.
it was massive but not as huge as Manila Cathedral but equally grandiose. sayang
tatayjoseph next vlog mo discover and feature all the lost schools and universities that are existing before in intramuros....gusto namin malaman sana...yun ust at ateneo alam namin originally located sa intramuros...dapat kase itayo ulit dyan ang ust at ateneo pwede naman gawin yun...sana si FL Liza Marcos gawin project ang revival ng old intramuros...☺️☺️☺️☺️☺️☺️
Sige. Subukan Kong gawan Ng video Yan
Sayang Intramuros would’ve been famous sa buong mundo sana for having a 7 churches. What a great lossss
oo nga sayang
Wonderful tour. In terms of art and architecture, Santo Domingo Church is the greatest loss. The gothic crown jewel of the wealthy and powerful Dominican Order housed a 16th century ivory statue of Our Lady of the Rosary ("La Naval") and had European masonry and interiors hand-carved from the finest native (likely now extinct) hardwoods. Spiritually, the greatest loss was San Nicolas de Tolentino Church. It housed a set of 17th century wooden statues that included the original Black Nazarene (the one in Quiapo is a later copy) and therefore had it survived the war, would've been the greatest Catholic devotional shrine of the 7 churches.
Thanks for the information
400 years of medieval history gone in just a matter of 2 weeks. What happened to the Philippines in WWII really makes me sad
it had to be done to liberate Manila?
In a matter of a generation, most if not all of the other cities destroyed after WW2 have been rebuilt, even warsaw. But Intramuros, no. It is nobody’s fault but our leaders. If the Manila Cathedral was immediately rebuilt, why not the rest of the buildings. Anyway, I made a comment to further explain, just read it.
Again, stop dwelling on how it was or what could have been, think of ways to restore because if other countries were able to rebuild, why haven’t the Philippines? If business districts are being built left and right throughout the Philippines, why can’t IA figure this out? If Boracay an entire island was mandated to be saved, why not Intramuros? Destruction is only temporary, rebuilding is just waiting around the corner.
@@ServandoIV thanks for you comments. It was probably a difficult time to prioritize government buildings over heritage structures.
@@ServandoIV Well said. They should've restored the entire Intramuros, instead, we're getting a new senate building worth 23B.
@@Jammy7126Sad. Restoring the entire Intramuros would’ve been a tourist hit.
I like to know about it, sana ireconstruct again the 7 churches inside intramuros..
Kainlan po gagawi ...
Hindi na kayang gawin muli. sayang.
👌👍💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗👌👍 God Blest 🙏 be safe 😊 stay safe 🥰🤗👌👍
thanks always
my mga informal settlers pa pala dyan i relocate na sana ang ganda na ng Intramuros mga yan ang magdudumi muli dyan may mga bata pang nakahubad
matagal na problem Yan. sana mabigyan Ng solutions.
Bakit kasi pinayagan ng local government na magtayo mga squatter dyan
@@gerardohurtada matagal na sila dyan. Hirap paalisin.
Ancestral houses in Manila naman sana po next. ❤
thanks for the suggestion. will do that soon.
If only they rebuilt and preserve in good management of intramuros , its beauty can compare to old cities just like counterparts in the South american sisters , and brothers just like cuba , peru , etc..😢
yes, if only it was rebuilt....
After watching this, it saddened me to see that we lost a lot of our heritage buildings and specially churches during WWII, judging by those pictures after the liberation, all of those churches are still redeemable, we should have restored it instead of completely destroying and then replacing all those beautiful churches. Makes me wonder, what could have been and how much more grandeur Intramuros is right now and the also the tourism it would have attracted.
very sad indeed.
Dapat ni restore nun after WW2. PWede p sana buo p facade. Di dapat iniwan Ng catholic church.
they can but they didn't. sayang.
The Americans were not as supportive of the Catholic churches unlike Spain. With so much ruin, the Catholic Church itself did not have much of the resources, after WWII, to resurrect those Churches. We can though, contribute our resources now in the maintenance or improvement of the Churches we have. All over the country, there are a number of big and small Churches that needed financial assistance. We do not have yesterday, but we have today. And today, we have Us.
San Nicolas de Tolentino or Recollect church was the setting of LVN's 1956 film Anak Dalita
yes it was. Lamberto Avellana saw the squatter-filled ruins of the church as the perfect set for the movie. the ruins was demolished in 1959 after it was declared by the city government as safety hazards.
Can one still access the silleria de coro (choir stalls) and the pipe organ of the San Agustin from its museum right beside the church?
yes, it was part of the tour before. not sure if can still be accessed now.
There were actually two Franciscan churches almost fronting each other in the Intramuros area: the San Francisco Church (the Franciscan mother church in Las Yslas Filipinas) and the Chapel of the Third Order Franciscans (Venerable Orden Tercera). This makes a total of eight Intramuros churches. The Franciscans later sought to replicate the old Intramuros layout in building Sampaloc's Our Lady of Loreto church almost facing the St Anthony Shrine of the Third Order Franciscans.
thank you for the info.
Sana sa mga local government jan sa Manila, ibalik ang mga nasirang simbahan kasi bahagi yan ng history ng ating mga ninuno at sila mismo ang mga gumawa ng mga simbahan, pawis at luha ang nakataya sating mga ninunong ginawang construction workers ng mga Kastila noon. Wala kasi tayong batas na i save at i replicate ang mga historical landmarks d tulad sa Europe.
oo nga sayang
tatay joseph...ipinakita mo na rin lang yun mga dating old churches sa intramuros,,,dapat sana sinabi at ipinakita mo din kung ano present itsura nya at saan na sila narelocate na lugar????...sabi kase sa comment nirebuild daw sila sa ibang places at saang mga places yan???...sana nasearch mo din mga yun😃
Sige, research natin yan.
I'll give what I can recall...
San Ignacio Church - When Ateneo was rebuilt in Quezon City, plans to build a church there was planned. In the later years, the Church of the Gesú was built. This somehow replaced the original San Ignacio Church.
Lourdes Church - now thw National Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes in Retiro, QC
San Francisco Church - Santuario de San Antonio, Forbes Park (the original statue of St. Anthony in Intramuros was moved here)
Santo Domingo Church - of course was relocated in Quezon City, now the National Shrine of the Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary - La Naval de Manila. The Dominican formation house was also moved here.
@@iamrainiermarquez thank you for the information. btw, if can watch the movie Anakdalita by Lamberto Avellana, it was shot at the ruins of San Francisco church during the mid-1950s. The ruins was declared hazard by city government of Manila in 1959 and was completely destroyed.
@@josephbautista4401 oh this is a very relevant information.
Sa totoo lang, nakapanghihinayang na napabayaan ang mga heritage sites na iyan. Pero hindi rin natin masisisi ang mga panahong iyon kasi people were still trying to recover from the sufferings of World War II. Other than that, the transfer was an outright response to forget the horrors of the war that they opted to rebuild the church somewhere else instead of building it from the ruins.
Only Cardinal Santos was brave enough to reconstruct the Manila Cathedral from its rubbles since he gave much importance to its historical value being the seat of the archdiocsese.
@@iamrainiermarquez thank you for the additional info.
If there is such thing as time travel, I would like to visit Intramuros during its golden age. :(
also my dream...
ansakit!!! sayang hindi sinubukang irestore noon paman. dito mo makikita kung gaano kalaki ang yaman ang nawala ng mga pilipino. dahil sa gyera at kapabayaan.
oo nga. nakakapanghinayang.
San Agustin church isn't the oldest church in the country. There are countless other older churches outside the walled city, especially in the southern tagalog provinces of Laguna, Batangas, and Quezon.
I totally agree. But these churches were initially built using wood and nila. San Agustin completed in 1607 is the oldest stone church in the country.
sana ibalik nila yung lahat na churches
yes! sana!
buti naman binura na nila yung mala-pink na facade ng San Agustin church. nakaka-asiwang tingnan yung kulay ng facade na di tugma sa majority ng kulay ng exterior ng simbahan.
Oo nga. I also didn't like the pink facade.
To reconstruct these 5 churches will take a lot time, effort, money like billions of pesos. The best is relocation to Manila suburb like Bulacan, or Batangas, to a wider space like 2 hectares of land. A lot of artisans, carvers painters, engineers, architects need to be involved with this both local and foreign. Huge undertaking project with National Museum, DPWH, MMDA, Archdiocese of Manila, NHCP, DOT, and even the Vatican. Look what happened to Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, after decades still not yet finished. But look at Las Cazas de Filipinas in Bataan, it recaptured the Old Manila. Secretary José Acuzar should headed the project.
Well we’re having a new senate building worth 23 Billion peso. 🤷♂️🤷♂️
yes, it's going to be more expensive to reconstruct these churches that's why they built new ones on new locations.
unfortunately, the government cannot finance religious structures.
@@Jammy7126And the way it doesn’t even look like the render.. even though the new proposed senate building isn’t entirely finished, it looks awful imo.
@@coffee.170 reaaal halatang tinipid sa design pero super laki nung budget
We Filipinos are good in totally destroying an old historical building. We can still rebuild the ruins to preserve, but we chose not to. There are still many historical buildings in Manila up to this date that need rebuilding or preserving. However most of them are in danger of losing due to modernization.
Yes, I'm worried about the state of many of our heritage buildings...
Sir do you have the old pictures of the remaining 5 churches...pls show it us.
I included their old photos at the video. You can check them out.
Sana napanatili ng Pinas ang pagiging mala Spain.. Hay
Oo nga sayang
It’s gone coz nobody cared enough to rebuild them. Warsaw and other heavily bombed cities rebuilt after the war. God knows where the reparation money went. Definitely didnt go back to rebuilding what Manila had before
so sad
They should have reconstructed the ruins of other destroyed churches just like the Manila Cathedral. The ruins of the other churches are far more larger (?) than Manila Cathedral. If they could salvaged Manila Cathedral, why not the others?
They may have reasons at that time for not doing so. But sayang.
Yun ruin parang pwede pa maayus sayang di repair
pwede pa kaso tinuluyan Ng mga squatters. and the city government had to declare them as safety hazards.
@@josephbautista4401 napaka lazy lang ng government natin mas pinili madali dagdag sana income government kung inayus yan sa tourism
@@PopeZera oo sayang napabayaan
Do you know the reasons why there were so many church in such as small span of space?
Intramuros was the old Manila . Several religious denominations like the Jesuits, Dominicans, Augustinians, etc. built their main headquarters inside the walled city
San Agustin ang oldest church sa Manila, not sa whole country. Older pa ang sa Cebu and Bohol.
thank you for the correction.
Dapat dyan sa mga cable nakabaon.
yes, I totally agree!
Ano pong street located ang st. Ignatius at nakapaoasok po ba doon
San Ignacio is located at Arzobispo Street corner Anda. The old convent is now Museo de Intramuros (pwede pumasok with entrance fee), while the church is now Centro de Turismo which will be opened to the public soon.
bat dinemolish yung mga churches? kahit nasira, malaking part parin nmn ang nakatayo, nirestore nlang sana
they were abandoned after the war and they became populated by informal settlers. by 1950s, they were declared safety hazards.
sayang lang yung iba hindi na ni restore 😢 dami pala simabahan sa intramuros
oo nga sayang
Allowed po video sa Museo De Intramuros??
Dati bawal. But last time, I was able to take videos.
From beautiful baroque style churches to ugly square block buildings.
and one of them owned by Tomas Mapua
Hindi ako galit sa mga hapon, pero kapag naiisip ko ginawa nila satin noong WWII P%$%^$*& talaga nila eh.
huhuhu
I wept .. thinking we lost these irreplaceable treasure to our patrimony and culture due to AMERICAN BOMBS!!! We almost lost San Agustin were it not for my restoration of the retablos inside due to neglect and indifference. But it awakened the Intramuros Administration and UNESCO also stepped in.❤😊
sad indeed..
Ewan, nakakapanghihinayan....sayang yung kasaysayan, yaman at ganda ng mga istraktura. While watching this, maiinis ka lang sa mga kano... obvious na binomba ng mga kano ang Manila para dumepende uli ang mga Pilipino at kung tutuusin pwede namang hindi...sumuko lang naman ng tuluyan ang mga Hapon ng binomba ng Nukleyar ang Hiroshima at Nagasaki... pero kung yun talaga ang kapalaran ng 7 Churches of Intramuros. Anyway, congrats for a beautiful and informative vlog content.
thank you very much for watching this vlog. I hope to bring more heritage sites soon. Hopefully, I can do Porta Vaga of Cavite City soon which also had Intramuros-like walled city. It lost 8 beautiful churches during the war also.
Hindi na ba kayang ma restore talaga ang complete 7 churches? Bakit sa Poland at Germany sonrang durog na durog moong WW2 ang mga hystorical buildings nila.
Hindi na. At that time due to limited funds, only the Manila Cathedral was restored.
The 7 churches were restored, just not in their original location in Intramuros but elsewhere within Metro Manila
@@fil_britbunnyboi872 that's true
Puedeng irestore, ayaw lang talaga nang mga namumuno dahil walang mga pakialam.
@@ServandoIV looks like nga
may mga vandalism pa grabe naman
yes!
di ko mapigilang mainis sa mga kano yan, di ba uso diplomasya nun, edi sana andyan pa mga makasaysayng mga simbahan .sayang sobrang gaganda
nakakapanghinayang nga. pwede naman buuin uli kaso di ginawa.
Kindly correct po Hindi po Yan Religious sects.... religious congregation po tawag niyan...
thanks for the clarification. I was looking for the correct word kaso nagka senior moment. Maraming salamat
I don’t think that it’s the government’s role to rebuild churches. With so many more necessary infrastructures needed to be built and rehabilitated after the war, not prioritizing the churches (when we have so many already) was justified. Besides, the responsibility of rebuilding the churches falls on the respective religious order.
yes, it was the responsibility of the religious orders to rebuild the churches. with the existing churches already badly damaged, it is less expensive to build a new one on a bigger place outside the walled city than rebuilding the existing ones.
Beautiful walled city. Just don't get scammed by pedicab and calesa drivers wich the admin is doing nothing. Better to walk around and feel the past.
Yung mga spaghetti wires, cables. Please removed nyo na yan. Gawin nyo underground cabling. Nakakasira ng View.
I think me plano na sila
Hindi ko na tinapos ang panonood, mali-mali kasi kala ko may matutunan ako, sabihn ba namang mga Hapon ang bumomba sa Intramuros, bye.
Santo Domingo was bombed by the Japanese in 1941. The rest by the Americans in 1945.
@@josephbautista4401 why you didn't mentioned that the Amercans also bombarded Intramuros, what is your intention?
@@josephbautista4401 When Japanese bombarded Santo Domingo church they have no intention of destroying the entire Intramuros, The Americans did but missed the San Agustin church.