Monserrate Sanctuary, Catholic sanctuary on Monserrate hill in Bogotá, Colombia.

Monserrate Sanctuary is a white church complex on the summit of Monserrate hill, east of Bogotá, at 3,152 meters above sea level. Its tall, slender tower rises in stacked, narrowing stages to a pointed spire topped with a small cross. Lower wings with red-tiled roofs and white walls flank the tower; the right wing has a row of arched openings along its upper level.

Juan de Borja y Armendia authorised the first hermitage in 1640 to Pedro Solís, who finished it in 1657, first dedicated to the Virgen Morena de Monserrat and soon to the Santo Cristo Caído carved by Pedro de Lugo Albarracín. Augustinian Recollect monks lived in the adjoining convent until 1685, when Candelario fathers replaced them. The 1917 earthquake damaged the building, and a new Neo-Gothic church by architect Arturo Jaramillo Concha, funded by pilgrims who carried bricks up the hill, was inaugurated in 1920 and completed in 1925.

The sanctuary houses the statue of El Señor Caído, which draws many pilgrims who climb the mountain to pray and spend time in reflection. You can see visitors lighting candles and leaving flowers at the statue, showing how this tradition remains alive today.

To reach the sanctuary, visitors can use the funicular railway, cable car, or a hiking trail of about 2.4 kilometers. The best times to visit are early morning or late afternoon, when the weather is usually clearer and there are fewer crowds.

The 1657 shrine housed a wooden Cristo Caído carved by Pedro de Lugo Albarracín, with some pieces of lead and silver. The image of the Virgin of Montserrat kept there since 1640 vanished in 1950 and was replaced in 1996 by a donation from the Montserrat Monastery in Catalonia.