Paco Church

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  • Architect Ildefonso P. Santos, Jr.
  • Location Paco, Manila
  • Typology Religious
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  • Also known as the Saint Pancratius Chapel, Paco Church is a small domed church located inside the Paco Park in Paco, Manila.
  • Named after Pancratius, a Christian martyr of Rome who is considered to be the patron of children, whose feast day is celebrated every 12th of May.
  • The church is of Romanesque architecture coordinated with its surroundings of what used to be the Paco Cemetery.
  • The wholeness of the place with the park, the olden day cemetery and the Paco Church is reminiscent of the rich yet dark past of the country under colonial regimes.
  • Landscape design of the Paco Park was done by Arch. Ildefonso P. Santos, from 1967 to 1969.
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