This video was actually taken earlier than the photos of Cebu Metropolitan Cathedral I posted on November 1.

Cebu Metropolitan Cathedral is one of the two popular catholic churches in Cebu City.

I’ve had a very close encounter with this magnificent church back in college. As an architecture student, I and my group mates were assigned to do a documentation of the whole church complex. In simple terms, we drew a floor plan. What we basically did was manually measure all the floors meter by meter, centimeter by centimeter, then draw it by hand.

Contact address:
Chancery, P.O. Box 52, Cardinal Rosales Pastoral Center, Cor. P. Gomez and P. Burgos Sts., 6000 Cebu City, Philippines

Telephone number:
(032)254.1861; 253.0123

The facade of the Cebu Metropolitan Cathedral.

The closeup of the facade.

Stained glass window.

Corinthians architecture inspired columns.

Chapel door.

Bell tower. I’ve climbed this bell tower. I felt so proud when I did it.

The bell tower, zoom out.

The chalice.

Guardian lion. This should not be here. I believe this is of Buddhism origin.

The cherub carving of the main door of Cebu Metro Cathedral.

The main door of Cebu Metro Cathedral.

The other door.

The main door of Cebu Metro Cathedral.

The main aisle of Cebu Metro Cathedral.

The ceiling of Cebu Metro Cathedral.

The altar of Cebu Metro Cathedral.

The altar of Cebu Metro Cathedral.

The side aisle of Cebu Metro Cathedral.

The ceiling of the side aisle.

The pathway going to the priests quarters.

Pocket park inside the Cebu Cathedral complex.

Side chapel.

Closeup coral stone blocks of Cebu Metro Cathedral.

Who can tell me who this friar was?

It’s time for a little diversion from the usual old Catholic churches photos here. I started going to this church in 1995.

Cebu Bethel Temple is an Assemblies of God affiliate pentecostal church founded in 1955 under a mango tree in Banawa. Though, its first formal building venue was first located in Sanciangko st., it was called Cebu Revival Center then.

The present address is in B. Rodriguez St, in Espina Village. They have a website: www.cebubetheltemple.org.

The photo below were taken on random dates.

The facade of Cebu Bethel Temple.I shot this while riding a jeepney.

Shot in the late afternoon, almost 6:00 pm.

At the entrance of Cebu Bethel Temple. A number of tourist Buddhists visit this church on a Sunday by mistake, because of the word “Temple”, lol.

The congregation area. That guy on the keyboard is rehearsing his part for tomorrow’s Sunday service. We call it “service” and equivalent to the Catholic’s “mass”.

The empty cross. Protestants always depict an empty cross to symbolize that Jesus has risen from the dead, also a sign of “victory”.

During a Anniversary Sunday service. I used to sing as a backup, up there on the stage.

The wife of the head pastor, speaking.

Hands in worship. Raising my hand was so hard at first. Raising my hand during worship was like releasing and surrendering myself to God.

I went to Our Lady of Lourdes Parish in Punta Princesa in Labangon to visit the wake of the father of Richard, one of the regular visitors of this site. So I grabbed the chance to shoot this massive modern Catholic church.

Contact number and address of Our Lady of Lourdes Parish:
Punta Princesa, 6000 Cebu City
Tel. 261-5393

This was taken at almost 6:00pm.

The entrance and aisle of Our Lady of Lourdes Parish.

The acolytes bringing candles and bells preparing for the evening mass.

Then followed by the officiating priest.

The closeup of the wall behind the altar.

I was trying to zoom in the electronic message board, but this is the distance my lens could only do.

The table has beautifully carved design of the Last Supper.

Sto. Rosario Church is a Roman Catholic Church established in 1933. It is located along P. Del Rosario St., Cebu City. It’s just nearby University of San Carlos Main Campus. These are their contact numbers: 255-5570 to 79. I’m not sure if this is the latest number.

I used to go and attend services here from 1990 up to 1995. Then from 1995 to present is Cebu Bethel Temple, a pentecostal Assemblies of God church.

Sto Rosario is a memorable place for me.

Above is it’s formal name in Spanish. But it can be called simply Sto. Niño de Cebu or just Sto. Niño (read as Ninio). If you’re interested in going to Sto. Nino de Cebu, the map is just below this page.

The facade of Sto. Niño church.

The facade of Sto. Niño church.

The aisle of Sto. Niño church.

People are in lining up to touch the Sto. Niño. I used to do this years ago, but i am now a born again Christian. I missed that time though, hehe.

On the left is this court.

The Colegio del Sto. Niño

Prayer or candle area near Colegio del Sto. Niño.

Prayer or candle area near Colegio del Sto. Niño.

The Catholic faithfuls praying.

Catholic faithfuls praying.

The entrance of prayer and candle court.

Moving away from Sto. Niño church. On the right is the prayer and candle court. At the back of me is Colegio del Sto. Niño.

Vendors crowd the front court of Sto. Niño church.

The location of Sto. Niño de Cebu Church