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The Shrine of Our Lady of Las Lajas is a church located in the municipality of Ipiales, in the Nariño Department, and is built inside the canyon of the Guáitara River, Colombia.
Pious believers claim that the Madonna and Child image colorfully displayed on the wall rock formation is 100% natural by divine origin and was supernaturally formed without any human construction. The present church was built in a Gothic style between 1916 and 1949 (33 years). The name Laja (slab) comes from the name of a type of flat sedimentary rock similar to shale and slate.
It is a popular pilgrimage site for Christians from both Colombia and neighboring Ecuador, due to a Marian apparition that is purported to have taken place here in the 18th century.
Pious believers claim that the Madonna and Child image colorfully displayed on the wall rock formation is 100% natural by divine origin and was supernaturally formed without any human construction. The present church was built in a Gothic style between 1916 and 1949 (33 years). The name Laja (slab) comes from the name of a type of flat sedimentary rock similar to shale and slate.
It is a popular pilgrimage site for Christians from both Colombia and neighboring Ecuador, due to a Marian apparition that is purported to have taken place here in the 18th century.
The Shrine of Our Lady of Las Lajas is a church located in the municipality of Ipiales, in the Nariño Department, and is built inside the canyon of the Guáitara River, Colombia.
Pious believers claim that the Madonna and Child image colorfully displayed on the wall rock formation is 100% natural by divine origin and was supernaturally formed without any human construction. The present church was built in a Gothic style between 1916 and 1949 (33 years). The name Laja (slab) comes from the name of a type of flat sedimentary rock similar to shale and slate.
It is a popular pilgrimage site for Christians from both Colombia and neighboring Ecuador, due to a Marian apparition that is purported to have taken place here in the 18th century.