Hines, respectively signed the Contract in a fitting ceremony held at Manila. The property was first leased to the church for a term of 99 years by virtue of a lease contract executed on Februbetween the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America and the Iglesia Filipina Independiente in consideration of the sum of four (4) pesos. The lot has an area of 3,501.50 square meters, and was where a big house used to stand, serving as the official residence of the Missionary Bishop of the Episcopal Church.
On the occasion of the centenary of the birth of Bishop Gregorio Aglipay in 1960, a fund raising program was launched to build a National Cathedral on a lot in Ermita, Manila owned by the American Episcopal Church, which the latter offered to the church. Concepcion Street in Santa Cruz, Manila served as the temporary national center of worship. While there were plans to build a National Cathedral after the war, the attention of the national leadership was diverted to solve the many internal problems besetting the church. For over twenty years, the church was without a national center of worship. With the destruction of the National Cathedral, gone too was the church's lot until it was recovered by the heirs of Saturnina Salazar. He served from 1905 until his death in 1907. Felix de la Cruz was assigned as the first priest of Tondo Cathedral. Recto Avenue), but was totally destroyed on Februthrough the indiscriminate bombing by American forces during World War II. The church, otherwise known as the Tondo Cathedral, stood in the more-than 2,000-square meter lot at 227 (formerly 111) Calle Azcarraga (now Claro M. In January 1905, the blessing and inauguration of the National Cathedral happened.
After the historic event, Doña Saturnina also volunteered to finance the building of the National Cathedral in a lot she voluntarily donated to the church but without deed.
It was in the same house, on October 26, 1902, where the historic grand inauguration, launching and celebration of the first Solemn High Mass as Obispo Maximo of Isabelo de los Reyes, Jr. Doña Saturnina Salazar, mother-in-law of Felipe Buencamino, also known as the wealthy and grand old lady of Tondo, Manila, was the owner of the house. Iglesia Filipina Independiente's first central church was actually the ground floor of a big house located at 488 Calle Lemery (now Juan Luna Street), a few meters away from Paseo de Azcarraga, in Tondo, Manila.
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