Iglesia de la Concepcion
Colonial convent church with a gilded mudejar ceiling salvaged from a flood-wrecked mansion.
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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.
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