Location: Scottish Rite Temple, Taft Avenue, Malate, Manila
Category: Sites/Events
Type: Site
Status: Level II – Historical marker
Marker date: 1995
Installed by: National Historical Institute (NHI)
Marker text:
DURING THE BATTLE FOR MANILA INSIDE THE PREMISES OF THIS HISTORIC EDIFICE AROUND 200 INNOCENT FILIPINOS WERE HERDED AND MERCILESSLY KILLED BY JAPANESE MARINES. ONE OF THE FEW STRUCTURES TO SURVIVE HEAVY BOMBARDMENT BY THE U.S. ARTILLERY FORCES. THIS TEMPLE HAD BEEN OCCUPIED BY THE KEMPEITAIS AND SERVED AS A PLACE OF TORTURE AND EXECUTION BY JAPANESE MARINES AND MAKAPILIS.
THIS MARKER WAS INSTALLED PURSUANT TO BOARD RESOLUTION NO. 2, S. 1994 OF THE NATIONAL HISTORICAL INSTITUTE.
