Santuario de las Lajas, Colombia

Las Lajas

Las Lajas Sanctuary ( Santuario de Las Lajas) is a basilica church situated in the southern Colombian Department of Nariño, in the region of Ipiales, and worked inside the ravine of the Guáitara River. 

The present church was worked in Gothic Revival style in the vicinity of 1916 and 1949. The name Laja (piece) originates from the name of a sort of level sedimentary shake like shale and slate.

Colombia has a considerable measure of holy places… it's a Catholic nation, so there's no deficiency. Furthermore, truly, some may state that other Colombian places of worship are more notorious that Las Lajas Sanctuary in Narino office: the temples of Mompos or Popayan, Bogota's church, Cartagena's celebrated domes. Be that as it may, in case we're searching for holy places that consolidate noteworthy engineering, fantastic area, and abnormal outline, also great back-story, at that point this congregation definitely has everything. In case we're judging a symbol by it's effect and visual power, it's history and plan, at that point Las Lajas is a commendable champ in this classification. 

To backtrack a bit: Santuario de Las Lajas is a basilica church worked over an extension on a ravine over the Guaitara River in southern Narino, close to Ipiales and the Ecuadorian fringe. Arriving from Ipiales is quite simple; simply get a colectivo taxi for 2,000 COP from the transport terminal and you'll be there in under 15 minutes. Section to the congregation and the encompassing zone is free (just the little historical center has a cost of a couple of thousand to enter), and it takes maybe a couple hours to meander around the site, getting a charge out of the view, and exploring the sanctums and inside of the congregation.

• HISTORY

The congregation was worked in the vicinity of 1916 and 1949, however it has an any longer history. The congregation was enlivened by a supernatural occurrence said to have occurred in that gulch many years sooner, in 1754. A lady named Maria Mueces was gotten in a solid tempest alongside her hard of hearing quiet little girl Rosa. On shielding between the lajas (a sort of level sedimentary shake, much like shale), Rosa indicated the stone face and shouted out that the mestiza was calling her. Beyond any doubt enough, lightning lit up a picture of the Virgin Mary on the stone. A hallowed place was soon built, respecting the supernatural occurrence, and was in the long run enhanced, and associated by a scaffold over the ravine in 1802.

The motivation for the congregation's creation was a marvelous occasion in 1754, when Amerindian Maria Meneses de Quiñones and her hard of hearing quiet girl Rosa were gotten in an exceptionally solid tempest. The two looked for asylum between the massive Lajas, when, amazingly, her little girl Rosa shouted "the Mestiza is calling me" and indicated the lightning-lit up outline over the laja. This specter of the Virgin Mary affected well known journey to the site and periodic reports of instances of extraordinary recuperating. The picture on the stone is as yet obvious today. 

Las Lajas

The presence of a holy place in this area was recorded in the records of minister Juan de Santa Clause Gertrudis' trip through the southern district of the New Kingdom of Granada in the vicinity of 1756 and 1764. The principal hallowed place was worked here amidst eighteenth century from straw and wood. It was supplanted with another, bigger holy place in 1802, which thus was stretched out and associated with the contrary side of gully with a scaffold.

The Las Lajas Asylum in southwest Colombia has made a name for its shocking engineering and a progression of legends including the presence of the Heavenly Virgin and a secretive wall painting of which no one knows the inceptions. Situated in the southwestern Colombian territory of Nariño, the Las Lajas Asylum sits on a 130 feet tall scaffold worked over the Guaitara stream at under seven miles from the Ecuadorian fringe. The neo-Gothic church was raised by admirers in the vicinity of 1916 and 1953 and supplanted a place of worship initially inherent the mid-eighteenth century. 

As indicated by prevalent thinking, the Virgin Mary appeared to a lady and her hard of hearing quiet little girl in 1754 at the very same place where the congregation is presently standing.The lady, Maria Meneses de Quiñones, and her little girl, Rosa, were going by the Guaitara waterway when they wound up avoiding a tempest. Right then and there, Rosa yelled "Mum, the Virgin is calling me!" and indicated the seeming virgin. The lady stayed silent about the wonder until something much more unimaginable happened. At the point when Rosa kicked the bucket, Mueces came back to where they had seen Virgin Mary to appeal to God for her little girl's spirit. The virgin at that point marvelously resuscitated Rosa, and mother and little girl could never again keep the supernatural occurrence a mystery. The primary hallowed place in the respect of Jesus' mom was manufactured a couple of years after the claimed appearance, as indicated by the diary of a monk who was venturing to every part of the district in the vicinity of 1756 and 1764. After 50 years, in 1802, a greater place of worship was constructed and admirers raised the main rendition of the scaffold that now enables access to the congregation. 

Las Lajas

The wonderful showing up of the virgin is just the first of various legends and puzzles connected to the Las Lajas Asylum. For instance, no one knows who made the picture of the Virgin Mary that is toward the finish of the congregation, behind the sacrificial stone. As per a few, the picture was seen first when Mueces needed to demonstrate a minister and different local people where her little girl had been restored. On landing, the admirers saw the picture of the Virgin Mary and Jesus cut in a stone divider. The picture pulls in thousand of explorers consistently. Las Lajas got standard crowning celebration from the Vatican in 1952 and was made a minor basilica in 1994.