20 March 2011
Religion in the Octagon House
Top-view of belen... on a plate.
The Octagon House is a beautiful old octagon-shaped house in Paoay, Ilocos Norte. It is lived-in. If there is anything I like more than plain old houses, it is old houses that are lived-in. Their stories continue, and they continue to have good, livable ventilation.
The octagon house from the outside.
The house was built by a local, Constancio Duque, in 1939. He was inspired by his stay in the Chicago, where houses were going beyond the boxy styles and into a so-called "bubble" style. Before being known as the Octagon House, it was called the idiay nagbukel or "round house".
Inside there is the typical assortment of Filipino Catholic paraphernalia.
Belen, frontal view.
Altar and Constancio's wedding photo.
Very large and unsettling figures.
Handpainted reproduction of that famous mother and child poster, by the owner of the home.
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