COLEGIO DE SAN JUAN DE LETRAN

THEN AND NOW
Location: Intramuros, Manila
Wayback 1880’s

DID YOU KNOW?!
*The college was founded in 1620 by Don Juan Geronimo Guerrero (a retired spanish officer and one of the knights of Malta)
*Colegio de San Juan de Letran (1706) was formerly name Colegio de Niños Huerfanos de San Juan de Letran (1620) and Colegio de Huerfanos de San Pedro y San Pablo (1633)
*In 1690, letran was declared as an ecclesiastical college 
*The name San Juan de Letran was inspired from the Major Basilica of Saint John Lateran in Rome, Italy -mother of all christian churches 
*In 1937, a three storey building replaced the old structure 
*The Letran was temporarily arrested when the building was bombed in 1941 and then turned into a Garrison by the Japanese Army in 1944
*The building was temporarily housed in the Dominican church and convent of San Juan del Monte 
*After the war in 1946, letran returned to its home in intramuros 
*The oldest College in the Philippines and the oldest Secondary Institution in Asia