TY  - ADVS
ED  - Ayala Museum Research Team
TI  - Tanauan Church
KW  - Catholic churches
KW  - Tanauan, Leyte
KW  - 1973
KW  - amrt
KW  - architecture
KW  - church facades
KW  - church of our lady of the assumption
KW  - franciscan missions
KW  - jesuit missions
KW  - leyte
KW  - visayas
N1  - The restored church of Our Lady of the Assumption, which was originally built by Jesuit missionaries in 1704. It not only served as a place of worship but also as a place of refuge for the people during typhoons and bandit attacks. (Source: Leyte Towns: Histories and Legends, Francisco S. Tantuico, Jr., 1980)     Tanauan constituents restored this church constructed by the Jesuit missionaries in 1704. It was turned over to the Augustinians, 1768-1843. Fray Francisco de Paula Marquez repaired and enlarged it in 1850-1860. Later, a transept was added and the patio was surrounded with a thick wall of rock which had a watchtower on each of its four corners for defense against pirates. Edifice withstood hurricane and tidal wave of 1897. YYY; With prints
UR  - http://retrato.com.ph/retratoimages/Midsize/CH/CH00734a.jpg
UR  - http://retrato.com.ph/retratoimages/Thumb/CH/CH00734a.jpg
UR  - http://www.retrato.com.ph/photodtl.asp?id=CH00734
ER  -