Las Lajas Shrine
The Shrine of Our Lady of Las Lajas is a Roman Catholic minor basilica 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…