Baclaran Church, located in Manila, is one of the most popular Roman Catholic churches in the Philippines, because that it holds the icon of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, brought into the country in 1906. Every year in June, the feast is held in her honor.

Service in the church began in 1948, while the number of parishioners was measured units. But by the end of 1949, we had to increase the number of services to 8 a day to accommodate all comers, and 10 years later - in 1958 - the premises of the church even expanded. Since then, the altar was never closed - it remains accessible to all the congregation day and night. Today Baclaran church holds about 2 thousand faithful, even 9000 people can listen to the mass standing. However, on Tuesday and Wednesday here it comes up to 120 thousand people to take part in a special Catholic worship - "novena." You can confess every day.

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

The history of Our Lady of Perpetual Help. During World War II, when the Japanese occupied the Philippines, Fr. rector of the church. Cosgrave icon hid in the house of a family who lived near the College La Sane. However, at the end of the war their house was burned down, and no one knew what happened to the icon. Only after the liberation of the Philippines by US forces one of the former church of the monks went to the old prison building Bilibid where the Japanese were hiding things stolen from local homes. There he saw the icon of Our Lady of Perpetual Help.

Next to the church are located kiosks where you can buy candles, rosaries, prayer books and icons.