St. Augustine's Church — Attraction in São Lourenço

St. Augustine is a Catholic church found on the quaint little square by the same name in the Historic City Centre of Macau, no more than a 5 minute walk from the heavily visited Senado Square.

Unlike St. Dominic's Church on nearby Senado Square, you will find far fewer visitors at St. Augustine Church, which was originally built in 1591 by the Spanish Augustinians. The church offers a neoclassical facade that is befitting of the Square and surrounding World Heritage attractions making for nice photographs.

The Interior nave is nice to see as well, featuring decorative doric columns and windows lined with relief plasterwork which complement the pastel yellow colour of the nave quite well. The feature highlight of the church is the statue 'Bom Jesus dos Passos' which rests behind the alter. You can walk back to the statue for a close look if interested.

In the end, this is a nice little church to visit in Macau and worth 10-15 minutes of your time if making the rounds of the Macau World Heritage attractions.

Note: There are daily tours of this historic church on Saturday and Sunday at 2pm and 4pm respectively. Sunday Mass is also held in Filipino (10.30am) and English...

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We visited this church because it's a heritage site. From Senado Square and using Google maps, you can walk to this church. If you have some time, visit the public library nearby. This church is not as crowded as the others. For those who would like to take a break to eat a snack or drink some coffee, there are shops nearby. We were able to enter the church on a Sunday, which was not the case in the Cathedral. We paid our respects and took quick photos of...