An 18th-century Baroque church in Barangay Dopaj, and a National Cultural Treasure since July 2001. The National Museum listed the whole complex, not the church alone. Saint Vincent Ferrer is the patron, and people here call it Dupax Church.
Father Manuel Corripio began the building around 1773 and it was finished in 1776. He had two kilns put up beside the site, one to fire the bricks and one to make lime. The front copies the outline of the older Tuguegarao church, with a recessed oculus in the pediment and seven finials along the top. A four-level bell tower of bare brick stands to the left, under a small cupola and a cross. Inside, two white pillars carry the choir loft, carved with cherubs, shells and flowers. The old main altarpiece and pulpit are still in place, though the heads of its images are thought to be copies of ivory ones stolen over the years.
- Where
- Dupax del Sur
- Town
- Nueva Vizcaya
Written by an editor · 23 Sep 2026 · source: Wikipedia, Saint Vincent Ferrer Church (Dupax del Sur)