THE OLD HOUSES IN MALABON

CHURCH OF SAN BARTOLOME APOSTOL

Last January 28 at 9:00am, our classmates entered the old church. It was so old and big. The church was heavily damaged during the Japanese occupation. It has remained untouched for 20 years. In 1951, the facade was restored by Fr. Trinidad. The dome, transept, main altar, and bell tower were repaired in 1958 by Fr. Reyes. The first stone chruch was built in Malabon last 1621. But the transept, two lateral aisle  and the media naranjan dome were added in the later years.

We viewed the exhibit in the church. It's about history.

For three hours, we walked on the street to visit the different old houses and Mae Pineda's mom is a guiding our classmates to tour the old houses as history. We can't believe because those old houses never damage. One of my classmate said "the mayor wants those houses to remain forever as old and they are for history". We said "sayang! some of the old houses are waste because nobody used those houses". But we want to curious what those histoy of the old houses and we can't find the post of the old houses. We felt not good when we walked because of bad smell from smoking and dirty street; moreover, the streets are small. Later on, we got tired.

We can't pose front those houses because of the gate and the street has busy with vehicles disturbed us. And we want to enter those houses but NOT because inside some of the old houses have no people and close the gate.