BARASOAIN CHURCH
Malolos is most well known for the part it played during the revolution for independence from Spain. Aguinaldo moved his government to Malolos in September 1898. The Malolos Congress convened in the Barasoain Church and the Malolos Constitution was created. Aguinaldo declared the First Republic of the Philippines and Malolos Constitution in January 1899. Malolos became the capital but was lost to the American forces in March the same year. Malolos officially became a city on October 8, 2002.
The Barasoain Church in Malolos, Bulacan, where Emilio Aguinaldo's revolutionary government inaugurated a congress. The church appears on the reverse side of the brown PHP 10 bill. The Congress became known as the Malolos Congress and a constitution, the Malolos Constitution was declared in 1899. The Philippines was the first republic in Asia.
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