The parishioners’ demand for a separate parish began in 1884, shortly after the lobbying of its prominent citizens for the establishment of a new, independent town.

The construction that started during the last years of the 19th-century was completed in 1901, under the term of Archbishop Bernardino Nozaleda, with Father Jose Mariano as first parish priest.

During the stay of Monsignor Bartolome Zabala in 1932, the entire church complex, including the patio, was renovated.

[1][2][3] The façade of the church is generally described as that of Renaissance-style, sporting different architectural features not commonly found incorporated in one structure.

The façade expands horizontally, with bare walls punctured by rose windows and semicircular arch windows, and ends with huge rectangular buttresses topped with religious images cased inside urnas or canopied niches.