A Salty Cathedral | Columbia

Just outside of Bogota, Columbia is the Monserrate mountain and inside is the Salt Cathedral of Zapaquira, an underground Catholic church built within the tunnels of a salt mine. You don't have to be Catholic to appreciate the beautiful icons and ornaments which are hand carved in the halite rock or enjoy the architectural grandeur of the space. In fact, the name "Salt Cathedral" is mostly to attract tourists and although it is a functioning church that receives as many as 3,000 worshippers on Sundays, it has no official status as a Catholic cathedral and does not have a bishop.