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    The Importance History of Sto. Nino de Anda Parish Church

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    The Santo Niño de Anda Parish Church in Bohol, Philippines has significant historical and architectural importance. [1] The church was built between 1885-1888 and features beautiful ceiling murals painted in the 1920s by Raymundo Francia that depict God and heaven. [2] It follows a Latin cross plan and has a simple plaster exterior with a bell tower added in 1950-1952, but the interior surprises with its colorful murals and Art Deco elements. [3] This study aims to document the church's history and importance to better understand and promote appreciation for this historic site.

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    The Santo Niño de Anda Parish Church in Bohol, Philippines has significant historical and architectural importance. [1] The church was built between 1885-1888 and features beautiful ceiling murals painted in the 1920s by Raymundo Francia that depict God and heaven. [2] It follows a Latin cross plan and has a simple plaster exterior with a bell tower added in 1950-1952, but the interior surprises with its colorful murals and Art Deco elements. [3] This study aims to document the church's history and importance to better understand and promote appreciation for this historic site.

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    The Santo Niño de Anda Parish Church in Bohol, Philippines has significant historical and architectural importance. [1] The church was built between 1885-1888 and features beautiful ceiling murals painted in the 1920s by Raymundo Francia that depict God and heaven. [2] It follows a Latin cross plan and has a simple plaster exterior with a bell tower added in 1950-1952, but the interior surprises with its colorful murals and Art Deco elements. [3] This study aims to document the church's history and importance to better understand and promote appreciation for this historic site.

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    The Importance History of Sto. Nino de Anda Parish Church

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    The Santo Niño de Anda Parish Church in Bohol, Philippines has significant historical and architectural importance. [1] The church was built between 1885-1888 and features beautiful ceiling murals painted in the 1920s by Raymundo Francia that depict God and heaven. [2] It follows a Latin cross plan and has a simple plaster exterior with a bell tower added in 1950-1952, but the interior surprises with its colorful murals and Art Deco elements. [3] This study aims to document the church's history and importance to better understand and promote appreciation for this historic site.

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    The Importance History of Sto.

    Nino De Anda Parish Church

    Rationale

    Have you ever know about the history of Anda Church? Did you know the
    existence, problems and events happen?

    Santo Niño de Anda is cruciform with a plane and austere façade enlivened by
    doors and windows. The interior however is a pleasant surprise with the colorful ceiling
    paintings by Ray Francia, the retablos the use Greco-Roman motifs, and the Art Deco
    confessionals. A walk through the relics of time. The church was built on March 19,
    1885 and finished on November 17, 1888. The first Spanish Augustinian Priest is Fr.
    Julian Cisnero. One of the finest murals in the province of Bohol is found at the ceiling
    of the Holy Infant Church. This the testament of the masterpieces of Raymundo Francia
    who painted the mural beside is the Holy Infant Academy which is used to be the
    Convent of the Augustinian Priests. The church and convento are at the head of an
    immense open field, at the opposite end of which very inviting beach. Old folks say an
    earlier church stood to the left of the field as one faces the church, slightly across the
    present convent. This must have been the church referred to in Redondo’s 1886 report:
    it was built of tabique walls but materials have been collected for a more spacious
    temple. Preparations for the present church were interrupted in 1898; under the
    direction of Fr. Carlos Ortuoste, the church was finished in 1926. Parishioners led a
    vigorous fund drive and also supplied the wood. The women standing on benches,
    applied lime plaster to the walls.

    The church plan follows the form of a latin cross, and is topped by a law four-
    sided cupola. The architecture of the exterior is very forthright, with the plain plastered
    surface enlivened only by doors and windows (This austerity is an authentic aspect
    which has been defaced overtime, in so many other churches. The belltower attached to
    the front of the church was started in 1950 and completed in 1952. It is built over a
    portico, a typical Boholano feature. Portions of the walls at the back were damaged by
    the earthquake and repaired thereafter. Its plainness inside pushes the eye upward to
    the marvelous ceiling murals. These were painted in the 1920s by the Cebuano artist
    Ray Francia, who left his signature in a corner above the choirloft. The paintings on tin
    sheets portray God and His Kingdom, and create a very tangible illusion of the nearness
    of Heaven. Though some portions over the northern transept were restored after an
    earthquake, the ceiling remains the best preserved of its kind in Bohol. In the middle of
    sanctuary is the retablo mayor, with its diminutive image of the parish patron, the Santo
    Nino, in the central niche; above is San Agustin, the secondary patron. On the sides are
    images of the Sagrado Corazon de Jesus and of the Sagrado Corazon de Maria (left to
    right) Nuestra Señora del Carmen, Nuestra Señora de la Consolacion, and Senor San
    Jose. The retablo in the gospel transept exhibits a related, but simpler, architectural
    vocabulary;Featured are images of San Isidro Labrador, Purisima Concepcion and San
    Roque. Keep an eye out for the confessionals, which have Art Deco elements. This
    style was prevalent in the 1930s; however the same motifs appear on the belltower
    adjoining the façade, built some 20 years later.

    BELLTOWER- One reaches the belltower from the choirloft. There are two bells,
    one dated 1892, the other 1924. From here one is afforded magnificent views of the sea
    in front and mountains in back. One also gets a better idea of the peculiar geographic
    situation of the town, nestled on a tip of land in between the sea and an estuary.

    Thus, this study aims to know and determine the importance history of Anda and
    also how historic it is. To discover and promote the Anda Church. To enlighten the
    minds and appreciate.

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