Baguio Cathedral

Our Lady of the Atonement Cathedral, higher referred to as Baguio Cathedral, is a Roman Catholic cathedral placed at Cathedral Loop adjoining to Session Road in Baguio, the Philippines, and is the see of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Baguio. Dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary beneath the identify of Our Lady of Atonement, its different purple exterior, dual spires and stained glass home windows make it a famous vacationer attraction in Baguio.

It served as an evacuation centre underneath the Japanese Occupation throughout Second World War. In 1907, a Catholic mission chapel, devoted to St. Patrick, became installed by way of Belgian missionaries from the Congregatio Immaculati Cordis Mariae. The web site wherein the cathedral currently stands changed into a hill called Kampo by the Ibaloi humans. Construction of the cathedral itself started in 1920 underneath the leadership of the parish priest, Rev Florimond Carlu, who renamed the hill Mount Mary. The building turned into completed and consecrated in 1936. It become dedicated to Our Lady of Atonement. During the Second World War, the cathedral was an evacuation centre, and it withstood the carpet-bombing of Baguio by using Allied forces for the duration of liberation on 15 March 1945.