The St. John of Sahagun Parish Church. A "mosaic-mania" if there is such a thing! Yep, almost everywhere in this church has been re-done in mosaic! Quite different from other churches in Iloilo, even the whole country. I cannot say its beautiful (beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, okay?), but I cannot also say its not beautiful. It is just unique!
Guide told me that this church was almost totally flattened by the same earthquake that ruined Oton Church and many others. The facade however, and parts of that bell tower on the right remained. So they kept and refurbished it. But inside, everything is mosaic!
This was my view from main entrance. Look at the walls, the posts and the retablo...
(Retablo btw is that wall of the altar that faces us.) Everything is mosaic, right?
Halfway thru the aisle, I turned back to see this... the "priest's view" as they say...
That is main entrance. The whole "other side" of the church facade. Everything is mosaic, right? Guide says those are not painted but differently colored stones, some of which were purportedly taken from the original materials of the church insides that crumbled.
Then we proceeded front, nearer the altar for this view...
Nothing is painted on the walls. All are mosaic. Even the sheep running on that arch (parang counting them jump over the fence) are also made of little white stone tiles!
A tedious thing to do. Even parts of the wall that would have normally been in plain color are mosaic. That's what makes this church unique. And I salute them who did this!
And oh I forgot to tell you about this..,
Even the 'stations of the cross' were also painstakingly done in mosaic INCLUDING their descriptions! There's no denying, whoever did this must be so "mosaically" inclined!
To a fault. I say again, to a fault, because, at times nakakahilo na! I am okay with the colors, they are not too loud anyway. But the so many crisscrossing intersecting angling rounding curving lines get me a bit dizzy. Nag mo-mosaic-mosaic na rin utak ko!
Okay, enough... let us go to the
mosaic, aw ah, I mean Municipal Hall!
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