Cristo Rey

The Cerro del Cubilete is a 2,700 metres mountain in Silao Municipality in Guanajuato, Mexico. Cerro del Cubilete is one of the maximum historically essential religious shrines in Mexico and marks the us of a's geographical middle. The modern structure and base for the 23 metres statue changed into created by artist Nicholas Mariscal in 1944 to honour the battle of the Cristeros. In the words of former Mexican President Vicente Fox, the statue serves as a "rebuke to the suppressors of religious freedom" who sought to quash the Church at some stage in the persecution of Christians in Mexico all through the primary half of of the twentieth century.

The site changed into initially occupied by using a smaller statue of Jesus, Christ the King. It turned into destroyed in 1928 with the aid of the anti-spiritual regime of President Plutarco Elías Calles, as a part of his undertaking to kill Christian rebels and wreck all Christian symbolscitation needed throughout the state's important "Cristero War" whilst country atheism turned into enforced. The current set up became completed in 1950.