Saint Barbara of Usaquén Church
Colonial adobe parish with a clay tile roof and bell tower, still active after centuries on a Muisca settlement site.
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This guide to Saint Barbara of Usaquén Church in Bogotá opens with an architect's rough estimate, in the twenty-tens, of what it would cost to stop the roof from collapsing on worshippers below. You'll hear how storms in 2010 rotted the old timber beams, why the priest strung tarps under the ceiling for years, and how architect Fred Contreras spent nearly two years on studies before Bogotá's heritage office approved repairs. The church traces its roots to 1665, when Usaquén was still a Muisca settlement.
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