Location: Siniloan, Laguna
Category: Buildings/Structures
Type: House of worship
Status: Level II – Historical marker
Marker date: 1939
Installed by: Historical Research and Markers Committee
Marker text:
CHURCH OF SINILOAN
FOUNDED BY THE REV. JUAN DE PLASENCIA AND THE REV. DIEGO DE OROPESA. THIS TOWN WAS CALLED GUILING-GUILING FROM 1583 TO 1604. IN 1733-1739 THE REV. MELCHOR DE SAN ANTONIO, O.F.M., BUILT THE CHURCH THAT WAS DESTROYED BY THE EARTHQUAKE OF 1880. THE CHURCH THAT FOLLOWED, CONSTRUCTED BETWEEN 1890 AND 1898, WAS DAMAGED BY THE EARTHQUAKE OF AUGUST 20, 1937.