Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Quiapo is a district of the city of Manila, in the National Capital Region of the Philippines.Known as the “Old Downtown of Manila", the district’s most famous landmark is Quiapo Church, a minor basilica enshrining Asia's most sacred Black Nazarene image, which has been processed every January in the historic district, attracting millions of devotees from all over the country and region.
Hidalgo Street (also F. R. Hidalgo Street or R. Hidalgo Street) is a street located in Quiapo in the old downtown of Manila, Philippines. It runs east–west through the center of the district linking two of the district's most popular landmarks, Quiapo Church and San Sebastian Church. It is divided by Quezon Boulevard into two sections: the ...
Contents. Quiapo Church. The Minor Basilica and National Shrine of Jesus Nazareno (Black Nazarene), [b] popularly known as Quiapo Church [c] and canonically as the Saint John the Baptist Parish, [d] is a prominent basilica and national shrine in the district of Quiapo in the city of Manila, Philippines. It is the home of the Black Nazarene, a ...
The San Sebastian Basilica under construction in 1890. The basilica, circa pre-1900. In 1621, Bernardino Castillo, a generous patron and a devotee of the 3rd-century Roman martyr Saint Sebastian, donated the land upon which the church stands. The original structure, made of wood, burned in 1651 during a Chinese Filipino uprising.
January 9. Good Friday (liturgical) The Black Nazarene ( Spanish: El Nazareno Negro; Filipino: Poóng Itím na Nazareno [1]) is a life-sized dark statue of Jesus Christ carrying the True Cross. The venerated image is enshrined in the Minor Basilica and National Shrine of the Black Nazarene in Quiapo, Manila, Philippines.
Plaza Miranda. / 14.59806°N 120.98361°E / 14.59806; 120.98361. Plaza Miranda is a public square bounded by Quezon Boulevard, Hidalgo Street and Evangelista Street in Quiapo, Manila. It is the plaza which fronts the Minor Basilica of the Black Nazarene (Quiapo Church), one of the main churches of the City of Manila, and is considered ...
Quezon Bridge is a combined arch and prestressed concrete girder bridge crossing the Pasig River between Quezon Boulevard in Quiapo and Padre Burgos Avenue in Ermita in Manila, Philippines . Quezon Bridge was built to take the much greater and heavier 20th century vehicular traffic than the nineteenth century Puente Colgante, which it replaced ...
More than half of barangays in Metro Manila are found in the City of Manila (2015 pop. : 1,780,148) with 897 barangays. Caloocan ( pop. : 1,583,978) has 188 barangays and Pasay ( pop. : 416,522) has 210 barangays. In comparison, Quezon City (2015 pop. : 2,936,116) – the largest city both in terms of land area and population – only has 142 ...