About Las Lajas Sanctuary

Religion, Churches, Interesting Places, Catholic Churches

Las Lajas Sanctuary (Spanish: Santuario de Las Lajas) is a basilica church located in the southern Colombian Department of Nariño, in the municipality of Ipiales, and built inside the canyon of the Guáitara River.

The present church was built in Gothic Revival style between 1916 and 1949. The name Laja (slab) comes from the name of a type of flat sedimentary rock similar to shale and slate.

Source From: Wikipedia
Ipiales, Nariño, Colombia

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