Micro Panorama Thumbnail for Social Sharing Sites

Energy

(September 21–25, 2005)

Jerzy Zamora

Family - Source of My Energy

Fung Yu

18th Century Pipe Organ in San Agustin Church

Intramuros, Manila, Philippines

Loading panorama viewer ...
Configuring ...

© 2005 Fung Yu, Some Rights Reserved. Creative Commons License

Help
Caption
The 18th Century Pipe Organ, apart from generating "acoustic energy"; it was also housed in a historic church, a place of "spiritual energy".

San Agustin Church at Intramuros in Manila is the oldest Christian sanctuary in the Far East.

As the oldest stone building in the Philippines, it marked the start of using permanent materials in contrast to the local architectural tradition of using lightweight construction materials.

The city of Intramuros (Latin for "inside the walls") began in 1570 as the centre of government of the Philippines. The Augustinians immediately in that year built there the Church of San Agustin (Saint Augustine), which was a temporary structure of bamboo and thatch.

Land for the building had been donated by Miguel Lopez de Legaspi, the founder of Manila who had led the expedition to the Philippines from Mexico in 1565.

In 1993 UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation) listed San Agustin as one of the "baroque Churches of the Philippines."

For further reading: http://www.augnet.org/.../0333-Intramuros01.htm

PLEASE RESPECT THE ARTIST’S WORK. All images are copyright by the individual photographers, unless stated otherwise. Use in any way other than viewing on this web site is prohibited unless permission is obtained from the individual photographer. If you're interested in using a panorama, be it for non-profit or commercial purposes, please contact the individual photographer. The WWP can neither negotiate for, nor speak on behalf of its participants. The overall site is copyright by the World Wide Panorama Foundation, a California Public Benefit Corporation. Webdesign © by Martin Geier www.geiervisuell.com