Photos

• Gilded devotion

  Layers of gold, carved detail, sacred imagery, and warm light converge at the altar, an elaborate display of faith expressed through art and architecture.

• The return: Reflections of liberation

  Against the open waters of Leyte Gulf, the MacArthur Landing Memorial commemorates the return of Allied forces to the Philippines in 1944.

• Barrels beside the old temple

  These ceremonial sake barrels, marked 奉献, are dedicated offerings from brewers and patrons, displayed in the old shrine-and-temple heart of Asakusa.

• Cathedral of memory: Barasoain

  Barasoain Church in Malolos — a place where faith and Philippine history share the same walls

• Memorare: Manila, 1945 - the tenderness of remembrance

  Where mourning becomes public, and memory becomes duty

• The Mira-Nila house historical marker

  A house that kept its time.