Lava Covered San Juan Parangaricutiro Church Mexico | Richard Ellis Photography

Lava Covered San Juan Parangaricutiro Church Mexico

Religious objects left behind in the ruins of the naive in the San Juan Parangaricutiro church partly buried in a sea of dried lava rock in the remote village of San Juan Parangaricutiro, Michoacan, Mexico. This church is the only remaining structure left buried in the eight-year eruption of the Paricutin volcano which consumed two villages in 1943 and covered the region in lava and ash.

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Religious objects left behind in the ruins of the naive in the San Juan Parangaricutiro church partly buried in a sea of dried lava rock in the remote village of San Juan Parangaricutiro, Michoacan, Mexico. This church is the only remaining structure left buried in the eight-year eruption of the Paricutin volcano which consumed two villages in 1943 and covered the region in lava and ash.