The Cathedral of Our Lady of Immaculate Conception's colorful facade, visible on the city's main road.
Ozamiz City Cathedral
the main altar and nave (oh, did you know that the cental walkway inside a church is called nave, while the aisles are those between rows of seats and between the pews and walls?)
the main attraction of the cathedral is not the newly-redesigned facade and interiors but actually the large pipe organ, claimed to be the second largest in the country and the only one in Mindanao, but not as grand as the world-acclaimed Bamboo Organ of Las Piñas built by Fr. Diego CeraThe cathedral draws the religious on pilgrimages and also attracts curious tourists looking to get a view of the Philippines' second largest pipe organ.
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There will be an upcoming post on Ozamiz City attractions, hotels and the usual tips for this city with not so many online information available.
That's a very colorful facade for a church ! Interesting. The bamboo organ makes it a must see place.
ReplyDeletebw, colorful indeed. my tour of ozamiz lasted only about an hour due to limited time
ReplyDeletegaling! hindi ko alam na meron pala sa mindanao na ganyan. nice post tutubi! gives us a nother reason to go there.
ReplyDeleteI've heard of that pipe organ pero I've yet to absorb its majestic view in reality.
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What a creative façade of a Cathedral and it was really beautiful inside too - thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteIve not been there but ive heard its amazing, any pics ? :) Cool blog! I also found a cool site that i think you might like, its called baraaza.com <- LINK so check it out and keep the posts comin' :)
ReplyDeleteThe church colors are atypical of a church, parang mall ang dating.
ReplyDeleteAnyway ang ganda naman sa loob.
I have a funny feeling everytime I click something on your blog you get paid.
ReplyDeletekakaiba ang facade nitong church kaysa sa mga ibang lumang churches, napakacolorful. =)
ReplyDeleteinteresting, that word nave.
the dong, ozamiz city can be a gateway to your mindanao tour in place of CDO...will post more pics and info :P
ReplyDeletekyels, you may be referring to the bamboo organ, it's in Las Pinas near Manila. never been there though :(
rennyba, colorful, isn't it?
justin, will check it out
photo cache, not so normal too colorful :P
anonymous, how i wish your funny feeling is true, for i would be earning sooooo much. you can see ads on this page with "ads by google" as well as banners. beyond that, your clicks will just show up as page loads on my statcounter...
ReplyDeletecarlotta, yep. nave it is and not aisle but popular usage it's the aisle in the middle :(
aha---finally. a colorful church. nice. very inviting. Looks like this place is well maintained.....
ReplyDeletehmmm.. i wonder kung marami ang nagreact sa pag kulay nila ng ganoon...
ReplyDeleteung first pic galing ng pagka capture dinagdagan pa ng clouds... ganda!
salingpusa, i think newly-renovated. it differed so much from other online pictures including the official website of ozamis city
ReplyDeletemimi, dramatic sky no? too much clouds muntik na di mag-work CPL ko
Wow, that is one impressive looking church building and a state of the art pipe organ as well!
ReplyDeleteSa novels ko lang nabasang ginamit yung nave na term. Although we studied in our Humanities class way back in college other names they call parts of the church. Pero unfortunately, di ko na maalala. I'll let you know if I do :P
ReplyDeletenever got used to churches with modern colors.
ReplyDeletej, well, get used to it hehe
ReplyDeleteActually i know the Engineer who renovated that church, the colors were taken from churches in macau, if you happen to be there near senado square you will see churches with similar colors
ReplyDeleteHi! I'm one of your regular readers ;-)
ReplyDeleteI'm doing a paper on the churches of Locsin and I was wondering if you would let me use your pics of the Ozamis Cathedral. I would acknowledge you of course. Please let me know if this is alright. Thanks!
gandarynako, you mean the first photo? just to let you know the same photo of Ozamiz Cathedral was bought from me by Cebu Smile, the in-flight magazine of Cebu Pacific...but if it's just for your report and not for anything commercial, go ahead, just acknowledge me :P
ReplyDeleteim from ozamis city.the facade of the cathedral has been very controversial.most people do not like it claiming it looks like jollibee and/or a mall. The parish also involves itself in some financial controversies like spending money for the renovation of the church wherein its employees claim they're underpaid; priests live extravagant lifestyles some of them own luxurious vehicles and lastly, the church supports kuratong baleleng founders which people believe give financial support to some of the priests.
ReplyDeleteanonymous, there's that KB again...it's bad for ozamiz city's image and tourism... that photo of ozamiz cathedral got published on Cebu Smile, the inflight magazine of CeBu Pacific :P
ReplyDeleteI work for the office of Leandro V. Locsin, and seeing what they did to this Church is heartbreaking.
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