Location: Intramuros, Manila
Category: Buildings/Structures
Type: House of worship
Status: Level II – Historical marker
Marker date: 26 June 1935
Installed by: Historical Research and Markers Committee
Marker text:
CHURCH OF STO. DOMINGO
FIRST CHAPEL INAUGURATED ON JANUARY 1, 1588. COLLAPSED IN 1589. FIRST CHURCH BUILT BY ALONSO JIMANEZ, O.P. IN 1592 WAS DESTROYED BY FIRE ON APRIL 30, 1603. A SECOND CHURCH WAS RUINED BY THE EARTHQUAKE OF NOVEMBER 30, 1645. A THREE-AISLE CHURCH WAS ERECTED BUT WAS DEMOLISHED BY THE EARTHQUAKE OF JUNE 3, 1863. CORNER STONE OF PRESENT CHURCH LAID ON AUGUST 30, 1864. THE IMAGE OF NUESTRA SENORA DEL ROSARIO, VENERATED HERE, WAS CANONICALLY CROWNED ON OCTOBER 5, 1907.
