The (), also known as Immaculate Conception Parish Church and Concepcion Church, is a late 19th-century,
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church located at Brgy. San Nicolas Poblacion,
Concepcion,
Tarlac,
Philippines
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. The parish church, under the aegis of
Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception, is under the jurisdiction of the
Diocese of Tarlac.
Parish history
History suggests two origins for the town of
Concepcion. First, Concepcion was already an established parish separate from its matrix in
Magalang,
Pampanga on August 9, 1866. The second story is that it was created in 1860 from the following barrios of Magalang: Matondo, Maycanalo, San Martin, Bucsit, San Juan and Garlit.
Architecture
The stone and brick
convent
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was said to have been erected by Father Guillermo Masnou in 1880 while the present-day church was built by Father Fernando Vasquez in 1893. Its
facade was described as being identical to that of the pre-war
church of Tarlac. It is predominantly
Neo-Romanesque in design with the presence of the recessed arch on the central part of the
facade (marred by the concrete
porte cochere). The facade is bare of ornamentation save for several circular and
semicircular arched windows. Two, three-tiered,
bell towers rise on both sides of the facades.
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Roman Catholic churches in Tarlac
Roman Catholic churches completed in 1893
Baroque church buildings in the Philippines
19th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in the Philippines
Churches in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tarlac
Jubilee churches in the Philippines
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