Our Lady of Chiquinquirá Cathedral, Sonsón, Catholic cathedral in Sonsón, Colombia.

Our Lady of Chiquinquirá Cathedral stands on the western side of the Plaza Principal Ruiz y Zapata in Sonsón. It is the fifth church built on this site since the town's founding in 1800, and the first designed as a cathedral from the outset. Its avant-garde design replaced the granite Romanesque-Gothic building demolished after the 1962 earthquake.

A devastating earthquake in 1962 destroyed the original Romanesque-Gothic granite cathedral, prompting its replacement. The current building arose in the second half of the 20th century as a modern substitute for the damaged historic structure.

The cathedral is the mother seat of the Diocese of Sonsón-Rionegro, created on 18 March 1957 by Pope Pius XII's bull "In Apostolici Muneris", and it shares that rank with the Co-Cathedral of San Nicolás el Magno in Rionegro. Its patron is the Virgin of Chiquinquirá, and the granite church that preceded it appeared on Sonsón's coat of arms from 1931.

The building sits on the western edge of Plaza Principal Ruiz y Zapata and accommodates roughly 1000 people for services. This central location makes it easy to reach whether you are walking around the main plaza or exploring the town.

The granite cathedral that stood here was demolished after the 30 July 1962 earthquake, which destroyed its apse and sacristy and brought down the concrete ceilings, crushing the marble altar donated twenty years earlier by Alejandro Ángel. The Pro-Cathedral Board, promoted by journalist and writer Néstor Botero Goldsworthy, managed the reconstruction.