Las Lajas Sanctuary

Las Lajas Sanctuary is a basilica church located in the southern Colombian Department of Narino, in the municipality of Ipiales, and built inside the canyon of the Guaitara River. The present church was worked in Gothic Revival style somewhere in the range of 1916 and 1949. The name Laja section originates from the name of a sort of level sedimentary shake like shale and slate. The motivation for the congregation's creation was an inexplicable occasion in 1754, when Amerindian Maria Meneses de Quinones and her hard of hearing quiet little girl Rosa were gotten in an extremely solid tempest.

The two looked for shelter between the tremendous Lajas, when, shockingly, her girl Rosa shouted "the Mestiza is calling me" and indicated the lightning-lit up outline over the laja. This nebulous vision of the Virgin Mary incited prominent journey to the site and infrequent reports of instances of wonderful recuperating. The picture on the stone is as yet noticeable today. The presence of a holy place in this area was recorded in the records of minister Juan de Santa Gertrudis' voyage through the southern district of the New Kingdom of Granada somewhere in the range of 1756 and 1764. The primary place of worship was worked here amidst eighteenth century from straw and wood.