Qualla: Tigbauan Church https://qualla.com/tigbauan-church en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:37 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/w/9/z/h/tigbauan-church-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Tigbauan Church https://qualla.com/tigbauan-church Tigbauan Church: Introduction https://qualla.com/tigbauan-church/ Photo credit A.C.T. Alejandre, CC BY-SA 4.0. The stone facade looks like two buildings fused together. Below, plain walls and thick pillars frame a simple entrance. Above, an eruption of carved scrollwork, foliage, and volutes surrounds the niche of St. John of Sahagun, as if the builders saved every ounce of decorative ambition for a single vertical strip of coral stone. This is Tigbauan Church, where restrained Spanish colonial architecture collides with Churrigueresque exuberance on a coastal hillside in Iloilo province, and where the Augustinian seal still watches over a parish that has been worshipping here since 1575.

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/9/z/h/tigbauan-church-wp/w9zh-tigbauan-church-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Tigbauan Church: Second Parish on Panay https://qualla.com/tigbauan-church/ Photo credit Lightningscale, CC BY 4.0. Tigbauan's parish began as a visita, a satellite chapel dependent on the Immaculate Conception Parish in the neighboring town of Oton. Founded in 1575, it became the second church established by the Augustinian mission on the island of Panay. The early parish sat under the patron...

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/9/z/h/tigbauan-church-wp/w9zh-tigbauan-church-second-parish-on-panay.mp3 0:06 2 full Tigbauan Church: Coral, Limestone, and Earthquakes https://qualla.com/tigbauan-church/ Photo credit A.C.T. Alejandre, CC BY-SA 4.0. The church that stands today was built in 1867 by Fr. Fernando Martin, likely replacing an earlier yellow limestone structure attributed to Fr. Fernando Camporedondo. That predecessor reportedly survived the 1787 earthquake that damaged many structures across the Visayas, but the...

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/9/z/h/tigbauan-church-wp/w9zh-tigbauan-church-coral-limestone-and-earthquakes.mp3 0:06 3 full Tigbauan Church: Where Stone Becomes Theater https://qualla.com/tigbauan-church/ Photo credit A.C.T. Alejandre, CC BY-SA 4.0. Churrigueresque architecture, named after the Spanish Churriguera family of sculptors, takes Baroque ornamentation to its decorative extreme. At Tigbauan, this style announces itself on the middle section of the facade, where intricate stone carvings burst from an otherwise auste...

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/9/z/h/tigbauan-church-wp/w9zh-tigbauan-church-where-stone-becomes-theater.mp3 0:06 4 full Tigbauan Church: A Living Parish https://qualla.com/tigbauan-church/ Photo credit A.C.T. Alejandre, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tigbauan Church is not a museum piece frozen behind velvet ropes. It remains an active parish under the Archdiocese of Jaro, serving a municipality that stretches along the coast southwest of Iloilo City. The church sits at the center of daily life in Tigbauan, a town whose name ...

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