Coral Killing Church

So I'm pretty sure that you couldn't get away with this now a days but check out this church built in 1887! Walls and bell tower made out of corals. Yup! Coral. Someone killed a lot of coral, plants and fish to make this church

So they have this convent across the street that is claimed to be the biggest convent in all of Asia. I was seriously impressed by this until I was reminded that the Philippines is the only Christian majority country in Asia, now ... not as impressed. Also these fancy bell towers were used also as watch towers to warn the people if pirates were coming! COOL!
Inside the church is stank. It stank like it was built in 1887 and started rotting away shortly after completion. Maybe that's a slight exaggeration but it definitely smelled old and unused. The roof was rotting away with these big holes in it and the wood frames holding up the massive roof looked like they were eroding away. It was cool and big but that's about it. No offense to the building or anything and I'm sure it was just magnificent in it's glory it's just really sad that no one seems to be caring for it anymore so we went and took some shots and went on our way.