The Baclaran Church, located in Manila, is one of the most popular Roman Catholic churches in the Philippines because it houses the icon of our Mother of perpetual Help, brought to the country in 1906. Every year in June the festival is held in her honor.

Service in the Church began in 1948, then the number of parishioners were measured units. But by the end of 1949 had to increase the number of services up to 8 in a day to accommodate everyone, and 10 years later – in 1958 – the Church building was even expanded. Since then, the altar was never closed - it remains available to all parishioners, day and night. Today, the Baclaran Church holds about 2 thousand believers even 9 thousand people can listen to the mass standing. However, on Tuesdays and Wednesdays here comes to 120 thousand people to participate in a special Catholic worship - "novena". To confess every day.

Baclaran Church is a 7-storey building with vaulted ceilings and hundreds of tables. The altar was donated by the family Incesti known patrons of the Manila district of Malate, in 1932. Architects, expanding the Church in the 1950s, wanted to build a high tower, but the proximity to the airport prevented these plans.

Interesting story of the icon of our Mother of perpetual Help. During the Second World war, when the Japanese occupied the Philippines, rector of the Church FR. Cosgrave hid the icon in the home of a family who lived near the College La Sane. However, at the end of the war their house was burned, and no one knew what happened to the icon. Only after the liberation of the Philippines by American troops one of the former monks of the Church went to the old prison Bilibid, where the Japanese were hiding things stolen from local homes. There he saw the icon of our Mother of perpetual Help.

Near the Church are stalls where you can buy candles, rosaries, prayer books and icons.