Location: Sta. Barbara Parish, Sta. Barbara, Iloilo
Cultural property owner: Archdiocese of Jaro
GAA Budget: P8,000,000.00
Fiscal year: 2016
Date started: The project was bidded out in 2016
Date completed: The project did not push through since the parish do not have a relocation site in exchange for the adaptive reuse of the convent into a museum. The project was cancelled.
Implementing agency: National Historical Commission of the Philippines
Contractor: None
Project description:
Given the vast cultural property collection of the Archdiocese of Jaro, the NHCP proposed to convert the old convent of Sta. Barbara Church into an ecclesiastical museum. The two storey "bahay na bato" convent attached to the historic church was restored by NHCP in 2014-2015. The curatorial plan was to narrate the historical development of churches in the province through its old artefacts, under the care of the archdiocese.
Declared as a national historical landmark, the church and convent was used as a headquarters of "Ejercito Libertador," a revolutionary government led by Iloilo's local hero, Martin Delgado.
Photos:
Photos:
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| The old convent building |
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| Interior of the convent to be adaptively reused as a museum |
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| The balcony of the convent |
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