Iglesia de la Concepcion

This guide to Iglesia de la Concepción in Bogotá begins two years after the Bogotá river flooded and wrecked a merchant's mansion in Tocaima, when salvage crews searched the ruins for a Sevillian-carved wooden ceiling in the Mudéjar style. The rescued panels traveled north to found Bogotá's first cloistered convent. After the earthquake of 1785, a carpenter named Jerónimo Poveda climbed up to check the timber and wrote that the structure seemed to stay standing by nothing short of a miracle.