This is a beautiful book that shows Cebu through 600 postcards, lantern glass slides and stereoviews covering 1870-1945 from the extensive collection of Lucy Urgello Miller collected over a span of 20 years.

Balaanong Bahandi is your ultimate guide to the Archidocese of Cebu’s architectural heritage.

After much blood, sweat and tears, so to speak, our book, Balaanong Bahandi: Sacred Treasures of the Archdiocese of Cebu will be launched formally today, 26 November 09, 1830H at the Cathedral Museum of Cebu. It is by invitation only.

This book is on churches and other religious edifices built in the Philippines during the Spanish colonial regime, 1565-1898. The forms, materials and construction techniques of these edifices will be discussed, along with their furnishings such as religious statuary, paintings and vessels.

Rene Javellana, SJ’s Fortres of Empire book is perhaps the best reference, so far, to introduce the reader to the fortifications in the country. These are oft forgotten aspect of Philippine heritage and the dark history that it represents. It is not too large and is full of beautful colored pictures of structures, details as well as places. Archival imagesas well as artist’s rendering and isometric drawings of some forts and watchtowers are included.

To mark the Diamond Jubilee of the Archdiocese of Cebu, the Cathedral Museum of Cebu and the Archdiocesan Commission for the Cultural Heritage of the Church will soon launch the book Balaanong Bahandi: Sacred Treasures of the Archdiocese of Cebu.

Great Churches of the Philippines by Pedro Galende, OSA and Rene Javellana, SJ is one of those books that you just have to get, pour over and read again and again. A lightweight tome that presents these architectural gems with its distinct Philippine style in a new light: beautiful pictures with short but concise text.

Subscribe to this blog now and get this photo ebook. This is what I’ve been planning to offer my subscribers: A Selection of Philippine Church Façades! The edifices featured here are those that I have taken for the book project Philippine Church Façades which was published in August 2007. It consists of 35 beautiful Spanish colonial era churches from 23 provinces across Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao.

And all this for FREE!

This book covers all the Augustinian built churches in the country authored by Pedro Galende, OSA.

One of the most accessible book on Philippine Churches is the earlier landmark work of Pedro G. Galende, OSA, Director of the San Agustin Musuem, entitled Angels in Stone: Augustinian Churches in the Philippines. It has been dubbed as the first comprehensive documentation of Augustinian churches in the Philippines and the most authoratitative piece of literature in its class. Here the author documents the 162 churches that the Augustinians have erected in the country from the start of their evangelization in 1565 until the end of Spanish administration in 1898 spanning a good 333 years.

San Agustin: Art and History, 1571 – 2000 by Pedro Galende, OSA and Regalado Trota Jose, both noted and respected figures of Philippine colonial church history and its ardent supporters and proponents, is a wonderful book on the oldest stone church in the country. It is a follow-up to the first author’s work, San Agustin: Noble Stone Shrine, which was published 10 years before this title.

Simbahan.net sits down with San Agustin Museum Director and author of the book Philippine Church Facades, Pedro Galende, OSA to talk about his recent publication and thoughts on future projects.

A monumental work containing 160 Spanish colonial era churches from Luzon to Mindanao. This is the list of churches covered.

A monumental work containing 160 Spanish colonial era churches from Luzon to Mindanao