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Saint Joseph Chapel


Title Details
  • Saint Joseph Chapel
Subjects
  • 1971
  • Catholic churches
  • Victorias Milling Company, Negros Occidental
  • 1971
  • amrt
  • antonin raymond
  • architecture
  • negros occidental
  • ossorio
  • st. joseph
  • vicmico
  • victorias milling company
  • visayas
Material Type
  • VM
  • Visual material
Online Sources
Photographer
  • Ayala Museum Research Team
Format
  • With prints
Owner
  • Filipinas Heritage Library
Collection
  • Filipinas Heritage Library
Image Type
  • Reproduction: Photograph
Place
  • Victorias Milling Company, Negros Occidental
Item Call Number CH00854
Status Available
Barcode CH00854
Local Free-text Call Number (oclc)
  • Classification number - CH00854
Main Entry
  • Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element - Ayala Museum Research Team
Title Statement
  • Title - Saint Joseph Chapel
  • Statement of responsibility, etc. - Ayala Museum Research Team
General Note
  • General note - The chapel of St. Joseph the Worker, a landmark in the history of liturgical art, stands at the sugar mill site of Victorias in the northern part of the island of Negros. Built in 1949 from funds provided by the family of Miguel Ossorio, founder of the Victorias Milling Company in 1917. Antonio Raymond, of the architectural firm of Raymond & L.L. Rado of New York and Tokyo, designed the building and Ade de Bethune, American liturgical expert of Newport, Rhode Island, decorated the outer walls and the baptistry with mosaics and paintings. The people of the mill compound provided the labor and participated in giving the venture its distinctive artistic form. The chapel, for a community of 3,000 workers and their dependents, is a simple square structure made of reinforced concrete and cement blocks. The whole building comprises two separate sections. The nave is built on one foundation, the tower above the sanctuary on another. The two sections are connected by a system of movable beams that hold the building up in the event of an earthquake. The structural strength of the chapel is counter balanced by its light, open appearance. Everything was done to secure maximum comfort for the worshippers: open-block work for the walls, a series of slits and perforations, small glass windows; in the tower is a lattice of concrete that houses two bells. YYY
Additional Physical Form Available Note
  • Additional physical form available note - With prints
Immediate Source Of Acquisition Note
  • Source of acquisition - Filipinas Heritage Library
Ownership And Custodial History
  • History - Filipinas Heritage Library
Subject Chronological Term
  • Chronological term - 1971
Subject Topical Term
  • Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Catholic churches
Subject Geographic Name
  • Geographic name - Victorias Milling Company, Negros Occidental
Subject Faceted Topical Term
  • Focus term - 1971
  • Focus term - amrt
  • Focus term - antonin raymond
  • Focus term - architecture
  • Focus term - negros occidental
  • Focus term - ossorio
  • Focus term - st. joseph
  • Focus term - vicmico
  • Focus term - victorias milling company
  • Focus term - visayas