Cebu Metropolitan Cathedral is one of the two popular catholic churches in Cebu City.

I’ve had a very close encounter with this magnificent church back in college. As an architecture student, I and my group mates were assigned to do a documentation of the whole church complex. In simple terms, we drew a floor plan. What we basically did was manually measure all the floors meter by meter, centimeter by centimeter, then draw it by hand.

Contact address:
Chancery, P.O. Box 52, Cardinal Rosales Pastoral Center, Cor. P. Gomez and P. Burgos Sts., 6000 Cebu City, Philippines

Telephone number:
(032)254.1861; 253.0123

The facade of the Cebu Metropolitan Cathedral.

The closeup of the facade.

Stained glass window.

Corinthians architecture inspired columns.

Chapel door.

Bell tower. I’ve climbed this bell tower. I felt so proud when I did it.

The bell tower, zoom out.

The chalice.

Guardian lion. This should not be here. I believe this is of Buddhism origin.

The cherub carving of the main door of Cebu Metro Cathedral.

The main door of Cebu Metro Cathedral.

The other door.

The main door of Cebu Metro Cathedral.

The main aisle of Cebu Metro Cathedral.

The ceiling of Cebu Metro Cathedral.

The altar of Cebu Metro Cathedral.

The altar of Cebu Metro Cathedral.

The side aisle of Cebu Metro Cathedral.

The ceiling of the side aisle.

The pathway going to the priests quarters.

Pocket park inside the Cebu Cathedral complex.

Side chapel.

Closeup coral stone blocks of Cebu Metro Cathedral.

Who can tell me who this friar was?