Cerro del Cubilete

 mountain, hill, shrine, Roman Catholic church, historic landmark, historic site

(Cubilete Hill) El Cubilete, site of the famous Cristo Rey monument. The Shrine of Christ the King at the top of Cerro del Cubilete is at the summit, 8,530 feet above sea level. The columns of the shrine support a 65 foot tall, 88 ton bronze statue of Christ the King. The original shrine was built by Catholics of the region in the late 1920s during the Cristero War. It was destroyed with dynamite by the Mexican government in 1928. At the bottom of the hill, at the place where the head of the original statue of Christ was found after the explosion, is the chapel of Mary Queen of the Martyrs, which today houses relics of the Mexican martyrs who were killed during the persecution of the Catholic Church in Mexico in the 1920s. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cristero_War
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