Clockwise from top left: View from
Carriedo LRT Station; The Sta. Cruz
Church; Carriedo welcomes its visitors
with a fountain built in honor of the 18th
Century Captain General of Manila,
Don Francisco Carriedo y Peredo, the
benefactor of Manila’s pipe water system;
Commercialization finds its way back to
Escolta through HUB: Make Lab, but with
a slightly different face. A project of 98-B
Collaboratory, HUB is the home of the
Saturday X Future Market, where creative
entrepreneurs congregate to sell artworks,
hand-crafted items, upcycled clothing and
more; Regina Building in Calle Escolta
Carriedo
Perhaps a true melting pot, Carriedo is where people of different purposes
and sub-cultures come to meet. Like Tayuman, it is a good stop for the
religious, with both the Quiapo Church and Santa Cruz Church only short
walks away from the station. Every year in January, Quiapo is packed with
maroon-clad, frenzied devotees hoping to touch the Black Nazarene. Day to
day, parishioners in the area mingle with their Muslim brothers and sisters
who worship at the Masjid Al-Dahab (or The Golden Mosque), a beauty
hidden in the farther Globo de Oro Street. This station also leads to the
camera haven that is Hidalgo Street, the fortune-tellers and quack doctors of
Plaza Miranda, and the newly revitalized Calle Escolta.
p ho t ogr a p h y Victor Burgos and Patrick Kasingsing
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