The three-month restoration of the partially collapsed roof of an outbuilding of St Augustine’s Church will cost about one million patacas, Leong Wai Man, who heads the Cultural Heritage Department of the Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC), said yesterday.
Several senior IC officials, including Leong, spoke to reporters during the bureau’s “Cultural Gathering” with the media at Dom Pedro V Theatre, which is opposite the UNESCO World Heritage-listed church.
Asked by reporters who will pay the one million patacas, Leong said the bureau would finance the restoration first and discuss the matter later with the local Roman Catholic diocese.
Leong Wai Man (right), who heads the Cultural Heritage Department of the Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC), speaks to reporters during the bureau’s “Cultural Gathering” with media representatives at Dom Pedro V Theatre yesterday while IC President Guilherme Ung Vai Meng (second from right), his deputy Leung Hio Ming (second from left) and IC Cultural Events Department Chief Ieong Chi Kin look on. Photo: Davis Ip
This photo taken yesterday shows the room of the outbuilding of St Augustine’s Church where part of the roof collapsed last month. Photo: Davis Ip
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