Betis Church

The St. James the Apostle Parish Church typically called Betis Church is a Baroque style church positioned in the Betis District in Guagua in Pampanga, Philippines below the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Fernando. The church became mounted in 1607 and devoted to Saint James, the Apostle.

It turned into d a National Cultural Treasure through the National Museum and the National Commission for Culture and the Arts. Betis as a metropolis strains its roots manner before the length of Spanish colonization which started in the sixteenth century. The town already had a completely unique subculture and way of existence prior to Spanish occupation. People right here had been famous carvers and expert in alternate. This expertise and understanding might then be used by the colonizers to infuse western affects to the natives of Betis. The word Betis became derived from Hispania Baetica or Hispania Baetica-an historical place throughout the Roman Period which turned into located at the Iberian Peninsula.