Santa Monica Parish Church

The Santa Monica Parish Church normally called the Sarrat Church, is a Roman Catholic parish church in Barangay San Leandro, Poblacion, Sarrat, Ilocos Norte, Philippines. It changed into built in 1779 and become at the beginning called San Miguel Church. The Santa Monica Church complicated includes the convent connected to the church by an extended three-degree brick stairway.

Sarrat used to be a visita of Laoag. It turned into initially named as San Miguel to mark the advent of the primary Augustinian missionaries in Sarrat in the course of the dinner party of Saint Michael the Archangel on September 29, 1724. The parish of Santa Monica de Sarrat turned into erected in 1724. It changed into simplest in 1769 when the convent changed into built to serve as a brief chapel. The church, belfry, convent, and the curillo or bridge staircase connecting the church and convent become simultaneously constructed and completed in 1779. In March 3, 1816, the church turned into destroyed with only some jewels stored via the Father Juan Casas. Father Vicente Barreiro, who was the earlier in 1818, worked for 5 years and completed the reconstruction of the convent in 1817. Father Isidro Champaner rebuilt the church in 1848.