Eleven years after its scheduled inauguration, the giant Martyrs’ Sanctuary in southern Guadalajara finally has a roof.
A spokesman for the archdiocese of Guadalajara announced that the building is now almost completely covered.
The ambitious project to construct Mexico’s largest religious edifice has been slowly progressing thanks to private donations. The project costs an estimated 2 billion pesos ($US68 million).
The building is set to honor Mexico’s 25 Catholic martyrs of the Cristero War of the 1920’s. The idea is to seat 12,000 people in the church with the atrium able to accommodate a further 50,000.