Give me a brief history of Sto. Domingo Church?

Answer 1

The temple of Santo Domingo
Majestic, magnificent, unique, the temple of Santo Domingo de Guzmán rises above the center of the city of Oaxaca carrying on its ancient walls a long history.
It took fifty years of construction to build this temple that was blessed in 1608 without being finished.
Its sober baroque style, worked by Mexican workers and Spanish architects which is notable in its façade where its most notable element is the portal of the temple, of three main parts and finishing which shows an Hipólito in bass relief handing over the Oaxacan diocese to Santo Domingo. Above the window of the choir loft can be seen the shield of the order and the representations of the theological virtues.
The interior decoration of the temple, made fundamentally of polychrome and gold plated plaster, is one of the most important examples of the Mexican baroque style; in the first vault is the exceptional genealogical tree of Santo Domingo de Guzmán.
Like many cloisters and churches, during the period of the war for Independence and the Reform, this church was occupied by soldiers who caused serious damage. In 1862 a general headquarters was installed in the convent and the nave was used as a stable for horses, from which the altar pieces disappeared five years later. The church reintegrated the diocese in 1898. Monseñor Eulogio Gillow was the one who put special emphasis on the restoration. He had new altars built. New painting were also added to the vault of the temple and many parts of the decoration that were deteriorated were re-gilded.
The chapel of the Rosary deserves a chapter of its own. It was added in the 18th century and its golden vault has a virgin in the center is surrounded cherubs and the figures of the apostles. The altar, where an image of the virgin namesake was placed is no less baroque than the rest of the decoration.
In the setting of this city this temple represents, not only an architectural-religious monument, but also a bastion that the Oaxacan people guards as a symbol of its history.

Answer 2

Are you talking of Santo Domingo Church in Manila, Philippines or Santo Domingo Church in Oaxaca (not sure of spelling!) Mexico?

Answer 3

Someone built it.