page_title: José María Zaragoza
section_title: Religious buildings
hierarchical_section_title: José María Zaragoza / Career / Religious buildings
caption_attribution_description: English: Santo Domingo Church facade
context_page_description: José María V. Zaragoza was a Filipino architect.
context_section_description: Zaragoza was involved in designing several religious buildings such as The Our Lady of the Holy Rosary in Tala, Caloocan completed in 1950; the Santo Domingo Church in Quezon City and the Villa San Miguel in Mandaluyong both which was finished in 1954; the Pius XII Center in Manila completed in 1958, and the expansion of the Quiapo Church completed in 1984, a project met with some controversy.
  He was invited by Brazilian architects Oscar Niemeyer and Lúcio Costa to be one of the guest architects in designing Brasília, which was planned to be the new capital city of Brazil.
  Zaragoza also designed the former Union Church of Manila, a shell-shaped church that resembled the Philippine Exposition Hall in New York of 1936. This church building, dedicated in 1975, was torn down in the late 1990s to make room for a new Union Church of Manila on a portion of the same site.
  Zaragoza also designed the Saint John Bosco and the National Shrine of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal.
  Overall, he designed about 45 churches and religious centers.
caption: Santo Domingo Church
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