1. Cebuanos are religious people, there are number of churches in the island.

Each town
celebrates their own festival that is in honor of their patron saint.
2. Situated in cebu, is the small municipality of dumanjug.
3. Dumanjug is located on the southwestern part of Cebu, where you can find some tourist
attractions like beaches, park and best known delicacy, the bisnok and is home to one of
the oldest churches in the city, The St. Francis de Assisi Parish Church.
4. The parish church of st francis of assisi has been the center of faith of people in
Dumanjug. It is one of the three church found in dumanjug cebu, located in the población
of the center of the town.
5. Its construction started in circa 1854, when the Dumanjug Mission Post was elevated
into a parish. The work was commissioned by the Spanish Bishop Romualdo Jimeno, O.
P. and was undertaken by the pioneerring Pilipino Secular Priest, Rev. Fr. Matias
Cabrera. The church was Made of wood and cogon.
6. And was then rebuild under Fr. Drotheo Godinez, using coral blocks with the freelabor
support of the early natives.
7. The bell tower of St. Francis of Assisi Parish Church has a dodecagonal or has twelve
sides.
8. The church façade is a well designed brick masonry.
9. This was a typical design of many colonial churches. Although made of three stories the
floors are unusually high; this is a general characteristic of the church.
10. It has a well-defined cornices at each level and balusters on the highest level.
11. Cornices divides the façade into five levels
12. The main doorway is an arched portal with massive doors, on side of the door are
rectangular window with niches