Skip to content
Novoaparra · CC BY-SA 3.0
Event religious Americas

Salt Cathedral of Zipaquirá

1954 CE

Underground Roman Catholic church carved within a salt mine near Bogotá…

See it on the timeline

Wikipedia

The opening of the article, and a way into the rest of it without leaving the site.

Underground Roman Catholic church in Colombia

Salt Cathedral of Zipaquirá on Wikipedia.

Read the article Open on Wikipedia ↗

The full record

This moment was taken from a record with a span of its own.

Landmark · Americas

Salt Cathedral of Zipaquirá

1954 CE – still standing

Underground Roman Catholic church carved within a salt mine near Bogotá, Colombia

Standing in 1954 CE

Records whose own span was running in this exact year.

Tibet Polity · South Asia 1000 CE – 1960 CE Canada Polity · Americas Founded 1815 CE · attested to 2026 CE Mexico Polity · Americas Founded 1810 CE · attested to 2026 CE Grand Canyon Landmark · Americas 3000 BCE – still standing Mammoth Cave Landmark · Americas 3000 BCE – still standing Hawaii Volcanoes Landmark · Americas 3000 BCE – still standing

Around the same time

The nearest dated moments on either side.

1952 CE Mau Mau Uprising 1953 CE Cuban Revolution 1954 CE Algerian War of Independence 1954 CE Battle of Dien Bien Phu 1955 CE Vietnam War 1955 CE First Sudanese Civil War
Image credits1 picture from Wikimedia Commons